Automated regulatory compliance checking requires automated extraction of requirements
from regulatory textual documents and their formalization in a computer-processable rule …

This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing
(Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized …

Features are a central concept in linguistic analysis. They are the basic building blocks of
linguistic units, such as words. For many linguists they offer the most revealing way to …

One of the greatest challenges facing the cognitive sciences is to explain what it means to
know a language, and how the knowledge of language is acquired. The dominant approach …

For humans, understanding a natural language sentence or discourse is so effortless that
we hardly ever think about it. For machines, however, the task of interpreting natural …

What is the lexicon, what does it contain, and how is it structured? What principles determine
the functioning of the lexicon as a component of natural language grammar? What role does …

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) is a constraint-based or declarative
approach to linguistic knowledge, which analyses all descriptive levels (phonology …

This study systematically reviews existing approaches to unsupervised grammar induction in
terms of their theoretical underpinnings, practical implementations and evaluation. Our …

Automated regulatory compliance checking requires automated information extraction (IE)
from regulatory textual documents (eg building codes). Automated IE is a challenging task …

Among fields of linguistic research, syntax is presently the one in which competing theories
make it harder to grasp the unitary character of linguistic phenomena. Such a wide range of …