Search for dissertations about: "grammatical functions"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 swedish dissertations containing the words grammatical functions.
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1. Probabilistic and Prominence-driven Incremental Argument Interpretation in Swedish
Abstract : This dissertation investigates how grammatical functions in transitive sentences (i.e., `subject' and `direct object') are distributed in written Swedish discourse with respect to morphosyntactic as well as semantic and referential (i.e. READ MORE
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2. Expressivity and Complexity of the Grammatical Framework
Abstract : This thesis investigates the expressive power and parsing complexity of the Grammatical Framework (GF), a formalism originally designed for displaying formal propositions and proofs in natural language. This is done by relating GF with two more well-known grammar formalisms; Generalized Context-Free Grammar (GCFG), best seen as a framework for describing various grammar formalisms; and Parallel Multiple Context-Free Grammar (PMCFG), an instance of GCFG. READ MORE
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3. Towards a discourse-based model of English sentence intonation
Abstract : English non-expressive, declarative sentence intonation is examined in a discourse context. A rule system, geared to a text-to-speech context is developed which assigns sentence prominences related to information focus. READ MORE
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4. A typology of classifiers and gender : From description to computation
Abstract : Categorization is one the most relevant tasks realized by humans during their life, as we consistently need to categorize the things and experience that we encounter. Such need is reflected in language via various mechanisms, the most prominent being nominal classification systems (e.g. READ MORE
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5. Multilingual Grammars and Universal Dependencies
Abstract : Abstract syntax trees are an alternative representation to syntactic structures commonly found in NLP systems. This representation allows for sharing of structures across languages, making it well suited to serve as a translation interlingua. READ MORE