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  • Evaluation of literacy instruction on low-literate adult ESL learners: a study in progress 
    Condelli, Larry; Cronen, Stephanie (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-07)
    "According the 2006 programme year statistics from the US Department of Education (US ED), 46 percent of the 2.4 million students in the federally funded adult education program in the USA were English as a second language ...
  • A yearly tradition: research, practice and policy on low-educated second language and literacy learners 
    Craats, Ineke van de; Kurvers, Jeanne (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-07)
    "In 2005, August 25-27, a small international group of researchers and practitioners from different disciplines met at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Their common point of interest was the language learner with ...
  • Language Evolution: The View from Restricted Linguistic Systems 
    Botha, Rudolf; Swart, Henriëtte de (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-11)
    The chapters of this volume investigate the evolution of a range of features of language, including temporality, negation, noun combining, and functional categories. The authors adopt what is known as the “Windows Approach” ...
  • Do mouths sign? Do hands speak?: Echo phonology as a window on language genesis 
    Woll, Bencie (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-11)
    Although the sign languages in use today are full human languages, certain of the features they share with gestures have been suggested to provide information about possible origins of human language. These features ...
  • The creation of pidgins as a possible window on language evolution 
    Roberge, Paul T. (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-11)
    For some two decades now, linguists have given serious attention to the idea that restricted systems – inter alia 'modern' pidgin languages – provide a 'window' on certain facets of the emergence of language in the human ...
  • The genesis of grammar: on combining nouns 
    Heine, Bernd; Kuteva, Tania (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-11)
    That it is possible to propose a reconstruction of how grammar evolved in human languages is argued for by Heine and Kuteva (2007). Using observations made within the framework of grammaticalization theory, these authors ...
  • Functional categories: an evolutionary perspective 
    Muysken, Pieter (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-11)
    In this chapter I will focus on the status and origin of functional categories in the languages of the world, and explore various ideas, with reference to proposals by researchers such Bickerton and Jackendoff, concerning ...
  • What are windows on language evolution? 
    Botha, Rudolf (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-11)
    This chapter offers an elucidation of the idea that certain phenomena provide windows on language evolution. Non-metaphorically, such windows are shown to be conceptual constructs used for making inferences about aspects ...
  • Negation in early L2: a window on language genesis 
    Swart, Henriëtte de (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-11)
    Early second language has been defined as a restricted linguistic system that can offer a 'window' on language genesis. In this paper, I model the acquisition of negation by L2 (adult) learners as a sequence of constraint ...
  • Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, Groningen, The Netherlands, January 23-24, 2009 
    Van Eynde, Frank; Frank, Anette; De Smedt, Koenraad; Noord, Gertjan van (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-11)
    Treebanks have become crucial for the development of data-driven approaches to natural language processing, human language technologies, grammar extraction, and linguistic research in general. Manifold projects aim ...
  • The emergence of temporality: from restricted linguistic systems to early human language 
    Benazzo, Sandra (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-11)
    Temporality is a fundamental category of human cognition which, in contrast to animal communication, is encoded in elaborate ways in every modern language. Following the windows approach, this chapter investigates ...
  • Semantic Annotation of Genitive Attributes in a German Treebank 
    Bangerter, Maya (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-11)
    German genitive attributes are usually tagged as such in treebanks. However, it is well known that this information is not sufficient for determining the type of relation between head nouns and attributes, as genitive ...
  • Extracting and Annotating Wikipedia Sub-Domains — Towards a New eScience Community Resource 
    Ytrestøl, Gisle; Flickinger, Dan; Oepen, Stephan (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-11)
    We suggest a simple procedure for the extraction of Wikipedia sub-domains, propose a plain-text (human and machine readable) corpus exchange format, reflect on the interactions of Wikipedia markup and linguistic ...
  • To Use a Treebank or Not - Which Is Better for Hypernym Extraction? 
    Tjong Kim Sang, Erik (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-11)
    We compare two processing methods for a single natural language processing task. One uses a treebank created with a full parser while the other restricts itself to lexical and part-of-speech information. We show that for ...
  • Similarity Rules! Exploring Methods for Ad-Hoc Rule Detection 
    Dickinson, Markus; Foster, Jennifer (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-11)
    "One problem facing the extraction of treebank grammars is that of ad hoc rules, rules used for constructions specific to one data set and unlikely to be used on new data (Dickinson, 2008). These rules can be erroneous, ...
  • Cultivating Trees: Adding Several Semantic Layers to the Lassy Treebank in SoNaR 
    Schuurman, Ineke; Hoste, Veronique; Monachesi, Paola (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-11)
    "In this paper we will concentrate on the semantic layers of SoNaR core: (1) named entity labeling, (2) annotation of co-reference relations, (3) semantic role labeling and (4) annotation of spatial and temporal relations"
  • Towards a Multi-Representational Treebank 
    Xia, Fei; Rambow, Owen; Bhatt, Rajesh; Palmer, Martha; Misra Sharma, Dipti (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-11)
    Computational, descriptive, and theoretical linguistics use both phrase (PS) structure and dependency structure (DS) to represent syntax. We believe that the next-generation treebank should be multi-representational, ...
  • Huge Parsed Corpora in LASSY 
    Noord, Gertjan van (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-11)
    One of the goals of the LASSY STEVIN project (Large Scale Syntactic Annotation of written Dutch) is a syntactically annotated (manually verified) corpus of 1 million words. In addition, the full STEVIN reference corpus of ...
  • LFG Parsebanker: A Tool for Building and Searching a Treebank as a Parsed Corpus 
    Rosen, Victoria; Meurer, Paul; De Smedt, Koenraad (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-11)
    We present the LFG PARSEBANKER, a comprehensive toolkit for interactive incremental construction of a treebank as a parsed corpus. This web-based toolkit offers an environment for batch and interactive parsing, versioning, ...
  • The PASSAGE Syntactic Representation 
    Paroubek, Patrick; Clergerie, Eric de la; Loiseau, Sylvain; Vilnat, Anne; Francopoulo, Gil (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-11)
    We present the PASSAGE syntactic representation based on syntactic relations, initially developed for French in the scope of national evaluation campaigns. After a brief presentation of the non-nested chunks and syntactic ...