Capturinglinguisticinteractioninagrammar课程.pptVIP

Capturing linguistic interaction in a grammar A method for empirically evaluatingthe grammar of a parsed corpus Capturing linguistic interaction... Parsed corpus linguistics Empirical evaluation of grammar Experiments Attributive AJPs Preverbal AVPs Embedded postmodifying clauses Conclusions Comparing grammars or corpora Potential applications Parsed corpus linguistics Several million-word parsed corpora exist Each sentence analysed in the form of a tree different languages have been analysed limited amount of spontaneous speech data Commitment to a particular grammar required different schemes have been applied problems: computational completeness + manual consistency Tools support linguistic research in corpora Parsed corpus linguistics An example tree from ICE-GB (spoken) Parsed corpus linguistics Three kinds of evidence may be obtained from a parsed corpus Frequency evidence of a particular known rule, structure or linguistic event Coverage evidence of new rules, etc. Interaction evidence of the relationship between rules, structures and events This evidence is necessarily framed within a particular grammatical scheme So… how might we evaluate this grammar? Empirical evaluation of grammar Many theories, frameworks and grammars no agreed evaluation method exists linguistics is divided into competing camps status of parsed corpora ‘suspect’ Possible method: retrievability of events circularity: you get out what you put in redundancy: ‘improvement’ by mere addition atomic: based on single events, not pattern specificity: based on particular phenomena New method: retrievability of event sequences Experiment 1: attributive AJPs Adjectives before a noun in English Simple idea: plot the frequency of NPs with at least n = 0, 1, 2, 3… attributive AJPs Experiment 1: attributive AJPs Adjectives before a noun in English Simple idea: plot the frequency of NPs with at least n = 0, 1, 2, 3… attributive AJPs Experiment 1: analysis of results If the log-frequency line is stra