• Cognitive Constraints Built into Formal Grammars: Implications for Language Evolution 

      Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos; Christiansen, Morten H.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon (Ravignani, A., Barbieri, C., Martins, M., Flaherty, M., Jadoul, Y., Lattenkamp, E., Little, H., Mudd, K., Verhoef, T., 2020-04-17)
      [Abstract] We study the validity of the cognitive independence assumption using an ensemble of artificial syntactic structures from various classes of dependency grammars. Our findings show that memory limitations have ...
    • Gramática de valências e sintaxe dialetal no âmbito galego-português: alguns exemplos práticos 

      Sánchez-Rei, Xosé-Manuel (Universidad Complutense, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2020)
      [Resumo]Desde o seu aparecimento como disciplina linguística no século XIX, a dialetologia centrou-se de preferência en fenómenos fonéticos, morfológicos e lexicais. A sintaxe, apesar da sua relevância como uma das componentes ...
    • Increasing NLP Parsing Efficiency with Chunking 

      Anderson, Mark Dáibhidh; Vilares, David (M D P I AG, 2018-09-19)
      [Abstract] We introduce a “Chunk-and-Pass” parsing technique influenced by a psycholinguistic model, where linguistic information is processed not word-by-word but rather in larger chunks of words. We present preliminary ...
    • Natural Language Parsing : Progress and Challenges 

      Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, 2018-07)
      [Abstract] Natural language parsing is the task of automatically obtaining the syntactic structure of sentences written in a human language. Parsing is a crucial step for language processing systems that need to extract ...
    • Optimality of syntactic dependency distances 

      Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos; Esteban, Juan Luis; Alemany-Puig, Lluís (American Physical Society, 2022-01)
      [Abstract]: It is often stated that human languages, as other biological systems, are shaped by cost-cutting pressures but, to what extent? Attempts to quantify the degree of optimality of languages by means of an optimality ...
    • Os pronomes pessoais e a expressão do complemento indireto no galego-português medieval e no galego contemporâneo: aproximação contrastiva 

      Sánchez-Rei, Xosé-Manuel (Universidad de Murcia, 2020)
      [Resumen] Los pronombres personales en el gallego se ocupan de varias responsabilidades gramaticales. Una de ellas es la expresión del Complemento Indirecto mediante diversas estructuras frásicas, entre las cuales podemos ...
    • The Adjective in English: The "French type" and its place in the History of Language 

      Moskowich, Isabel (Walter Mouton de Gruyter, 2002)
      [Abstract] Before proceeding to the analysis of the situation of attributive adjectives in earlier stages of the language I will be concerned with the characteristics of the category "adjective" in present day English and ...
    • Towards fast natural language parsing: FASTPARSE ERC Starting Grant 

      Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN), 2017-09)
      [Abstract:] The goal of the FASTPARSE project (Fast Natural Language Parsing for Large-Scale NLP), funded by the European Research Council (ERC), is to achieve a breakthrough in the speed of natural language syntactic ...