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Boon, Ian Gregory – ProQuest LLC, 2022
It is standardly believed that some occurrences of expressions designate singularly, while other occurrences of expressions designate plurally. For instance, the singular expression the student may be used on an occasion to talk about one particular student, while the plural expression the students may be used on an occasion to talk about several…
Descriptors: Grammar, Morphemes, Language Usage, Essays
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Mahowald, Kyle; Kachergis, George; Frank, Michael C. – First Language, 2020
Ambridge calls for exemplar-based accounts of language acquisition. Do modern neural networks such as transformers or word2vec -- which have been extremely successful in modern natural language processing (NLP) applications -- count? Although these models often have ample parametric complexity to store exemplars from their training data, they also…
Descriptors: Models, Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition
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Schuler, Kathryn D.; Kodner, Jordan; Caplan, Spencer – First Language, 2020
In 'Against Stored Abstractions,' Ambridge uses neural and computational evidence to make his case against abstract representations. He argues that storing only exemplars is more parsimonious -- why bother with abstraction when exemplar models with on-the-fly calculation can do everything abstracting models can and more -- and implies that his…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Computational Linguistics, Linguistic Theory
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Sinclair, Jeanne; Jang, Eunice Eunhee; Rudzicz, Frank – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Advances in machine learning (ML) are poised to contribute to our understanding of the linguistic processes associated with successful reading comprehension, which is a critical aspect of children's educational success. We used ML techniques to investigate and compare associations between children's reading comprehension and 260 linguistic…
Descriptors: Prediction, Reading Comprehension, Natural Language Processing, Speech Communication
Dye, Melody – ProQuest LLC, 2017
While information theory is typically considered in the context of modern computing and engineering, its core mathematical principles provide a potentially useful lens through which to consider human language. Like the artificial communication systems such principles were invented to describe, natural languages involve a sender and receiver, a…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Languages, Computer Software
Allen, Laura K.; Mills, Caitlin; Perret, Cecile; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2019
This study examines the extent to which instructions to self-explain vs. "other"-explain a text lead readers to produce different forms of explanations. Natural language processing was used to examine the content and characteristics of the explanations produced as a function of instruction condition. Undergraduate students (n = 146)…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Science Instruction, Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods
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Crossley, Scott A. – Language Teaching, 2013
This paper provides an agenda for replication studies focusing on second language (L2) writing and the use of natural language processing (NLP) tools and machine learning algorithms. Specifically, it introduces a range of the available NLP tools and machine learning algorithms and demonstrates how these could be used to replicate seminal studies…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Natural Language Processing
Smith, David Arthur – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Much recent work in natural language processing treats linguistic analysis as an inference problem over graphs. This development opens up useful connections between machine learning, graph theory, and linguistics. The first part of this dissertation formulates syntactic dependency parsing as a dynamic Markov random field with the novel…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Bilingualism, Monolingualism
Heintz, Ilana – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The goal of this dissertation is to introduce a method for deriving morphemes from Arabic words using stem patterns, a feature of Arabic morphology. The motivations are three-fold: modeling with morphemes rather than words should help address the out-of-vocabulary problem; working with stem patterns should prove to be a cross-dialectally valid…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Dialects, Vowels, Morphemes
Brown, Susan Windisch – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The deep semantic understanding necessary for complex natural language processing tasks, such as automatic question-answering or text summarization, would benefit from highly accurate word sense disambiguation (WSD). This dissertation investigates what makes an appropriate and effective sense inventory for WSD. Drawing on theories and…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Computational Linguistics, Knowledge Representation
Watters, Shana Kay – ProQuest LLC, 2010
For over 30 years, reference resolution, the process of determining what a noun phrase including a pronoun refers to in written and spoken language, has been an important and on-going area of research. Most existing pronominal reference resolution algorithms and systems are designed to use syntactic information and surface features (e.g. number…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Nouns, Computer Science
Boyd-Graber, Jordan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Topic models like latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) provide a framework for analyzing large datasets where observations are collected into groups. Although topic modeling has been fruitfully applied to problems social science, biology, and computer vision, it has been most widely used to model datasets where documents are modeled as exchangeable…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Linguistics, Multilingualism
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Chapelle, Carol A.; Chung, Yoo-Ree – Language Testing, 2010
Advances in natural language processing (NLP) and automatic speech recognition and processing technologies offer new opportunities for language testing. Despite their potential uses on a range of language test item types, relatively little work has been done in this area, and it is therefore not well understood by test developers, researchers or…
Descriptors: Test Items, Computational Linguistics, Testing, Language Tests
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Ellis, Nick C.; Simpson-Vlach, Rita; Maynard, Carson – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
Natural language makes considerable use of recurrent formulaic patterns of words. This article triangulates the construct of "formula" from corpus linguistic, psycholinguistic, and educational perspectives. It describes the corpus linguistic extraction of pedagogically useful formulaic sequences for academic speech and writing. It determines…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Native Speakers
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Liou, Hsien-Chin; Chang, Jason S; Chen, Hao-Jan; Lin, Chih-Cheng; Liaw, Meei-Ling; Gao, Zhao-Ming; Jang, Jyh-Shing Roger; Yeh, Yuli; Chuang, Thomas C.; You, Geeng-Neng – CALICO Journal, 2006
This paper describes the development of an innovative web-based environment for English language learning with advanced data-driven and statistical approaches. The project uses various corpora, including a Chinese-English parallel corpus ("Sinorama") and various natural language processing (NLP) tools to construct effective English…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, English (Second Language), Bilingualism, Web Based Instruction