Questions tagged [computational-linguistics]
A branch of science that uses computers and mathematical methods to construct and investigate linguistic theory. Its technological and algorithmic implementation is called NLP.
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Replace bad spelling with correct spelling
I have a large old text, written in language A but according to the spelling rules of language B. Words are understandable, but I need to make spelling correct according to the rules of A. How this ...
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Is there a list of word meanings that are universally represented in all languages?
I am looking for a comprehensive list of words/concepts that are represented in most if not all known languages - presumably the category would include human body parts (hand, foot, mouth, eye), ...
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Why onomasiological studies are less popular/frequent than semasiological ones?
When searching for research on semantic shift, it becomes apparent that the majority of studies concentrate on the semasiological perspective—how a word's meaning evolves over time. In contrast, the ...
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How to write a program that lists out all the grammar patterns used in a given sentence?
Disclaimer, I have no formal background in linguistics so I'm really asking in the dark here.
Problem: I'm trying to write a program that, given a grammatically correct (this is assumed) sentence, ...
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Are there dictionaries which use Venn diagrams or set theory to clarify similarities between words?
Do there exist dictionaries containing
lists of many different specific, not general, definitions of a word x
lists of many detailed definitions or examples of a word y
Venn diagrams showing which ...
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How can the morphology of a language be formally represented i.e. computerized? [closed]
Languages can have very different morphologies. For instance, Sanskrit has a morphology that is heavily based on the root, and the combination of roots with other roots results in new words (it is ...
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Synthesize tone contours?
Is there software that I can use to synthesize how a hypothetical tone contour would sound?
I'm aware of "sound from formula" feature in Praat, but I'm unsure how to create the right formula ...
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Which school of linguistics is the most related to computational linguistics and NLP?
I heard that there are different schools of linguistics: functional, cognitive, and structural/generative/formal.
I was wondering which schools the following books belong to:
Essentials of ...
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A parser for grammars with movement
I'm trying to figure out how the parser algorithm of Harkema 2000 works. It is a bottom-up parser that uses an agenda-driven, chart-based deduction procedure, but what is not clear to me is in what ...
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In absolute numerical terms, what is the computational size of human language, particularly semantic processing?
What is a numerical estimate for the “RAM” of the human brain required to actually compute resolutions of the semantic content of sentences?
For example, consider there is an algorithm that expends 1 ...
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Parsers and syntax trees for natural languages
Say I have a string representing text in a natural language, for example:
She is an effective teacher. Most students have found her reasonably helpful.
Is there a programming library or command line ...
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Are linguistic corpora under threat from AI-generated text?
As many will be aware, there has been a lot of concern about the spread of AI generated text posted on the Stack Exchange network, leading to moderators on several sites standing down. See here and ...
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Why words are the basic building blocks of language?
I'm asking this both in the sense that for me (as a human) words seem to be the fundamental building blocks of language, and from the perspective of NLP applications, where word-vectors and word-...
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Is large language model “perplexity” on an input the total of its perplexity for the smallest parts? [closed]
“Perplexity” is how likely a large language model scores an output it gives as being the output it should have given. If the model does not produce responses for itself to choose from that it ...
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What tools are there to measure aspects of language?
I am seeking to construct an a priori language that is optimized to provide the greatest creativity for songwriting and poetry, in addition to being extremely general and productive in neologism, ...
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Linguistic analysis of ChatGPT's default style of writing
Even though ChatGPT can - better or worse - mimic other writers' styles, it exhibits something like a default style of writing which is not very "characteristic" (because it's the ...
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Is there a formal system in Linguistics like Boolean algebra to reduce the grammar rules of a language to minimum items ignoring semantics? [closed]
To get the grammar rules down to the minimum necessary for teaching. Semantics not included.
This is example what what I am thinking about.
Grammar with all the semantics cut out, means it is easy to ...
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Is there an automatic way to divide French words into syllables/morphemes?
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I am trying to come up with a way to divide French words into syllables, phonemes, morphemes, or any other individually pronounceable/meaningful sub-unit in order to model word corruption in ...
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Generating random logically consistent chains of sentences
I'm interested in generating random logically consistent chains of natural language sentences. I don't know anything about computational linguistics. I'm wondering if there are software packages or ...
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Are there heuristics to tell if a character is from Chinese, Kanji, or Chu Nom?
Suppose I know nothing about Chinese writing systems but some basic strokes and radicals. When given a blocky-looking character, how do I tell if it's a character only used in Kanji, in Chữ Nôm, or in ...
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What are the practical differences between type-logical/categorial and context-free based approaches to semantic parsing?
I am currently reading Bob Carpenter's Type-Logical Semantics, which goes over the Type-Logical approach to natural language semantics. I understand that categorial grammar is technically different ...
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Name for ongoing syntactic dependencies after a word
Consider the sentence "I love my dog." There are three syntactic dependencies in this sentence: (a) the subject dependency from "I" to "love," (b) the modifier dependency ...
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Where to find English POS words?
Given a POS (part of speech), tag, and dependency for words, where can I find words that have the same POS, tag, and dependency?
I only need a list of words by (pos,tag) and do not need code for this (...
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How to Do NACLO Problem with Frogs 🐸, Ducks 🦆, and Bats 🦇
The Problem
My Question
How do you solve this?
My Pitiful Progress
(w), in Witsuwit'en, is likely a compound word of (a) and (v)
(15) and (16) are very similar spelling-wise. It is probable that ...
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How good ChatGPT is at answering questions?
I am looking for evaluations of ChatGPT on some question-answering dataset.
I'm especially interested in how good (or bad) ChatGPT is at answering questions posted on Stack Exchange, specifically in ...
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Which datasets can I use to train a medical speech recognition system?
So far I found:
ezDI Medical Dictation Dataset (16h)
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/paultimothymooney/medical-speech-transcription-and-intent (8h)
Which other datasets can I use to train a medical ...
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Is there any mathematically studied ontology space?
I am considering “ontology generation”. I have not yet read the specifics of these techniques.
Still, the point must surely be to identify some kind of cooccurrences / associations between words. ...
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How do I select rules from Grammatical Framework and build sentences with them?
Here is I think the actual computational grammar for Turkish in the Grammatical Framework framework:
I am going to read this page, which seems to explain how to read and understand those grammar code ...
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The sequence of parts of speech in English
Considering the main eight parts of speech, every two adjacent words in a sentence can be one of the possible 64 pairs. The probability of these pairs significantly varies, as some might even be ...
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How to Solve NACLO problem on Old Persian Cuneiform?
Below is a problem from NACLO 2022 Open Round titled "Set in Stone". The language is Old Persian cuneiform.
The goal is to match the translations. The problem also states
Note that one ...
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Word form for Number in Ancient Obscure Language
The problem gives 7 numbers and 7 unmatched word forms in random order. 15, 1,16,2,10,11,14 and aina-bumfit, para-dig,bumfit,aina-dig,aina,dig,peina The question is to figure out the number peina-...
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Comparing Text Translations by Conducting Corpus Analysis
Provided one has three pieces of text called - “Text A”, “Text B” and “Text C”.
Text A is the original text.
Text B and Text C are translations of Text A (Text A, being initially written in another ...
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What's the opposite of semantic parsing?
Semantic parsing is the task of translating natural language into a formal meaning representation on which a machine can act.
What's the opposite called? I.e. "translating a logical formalism ...
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Characterizing the "tonality" or the tone of a language
I can illustrate my question with an example. I started by learning German. To me German sounds very articulated, sharp and clear. I then studied Italian. Italian sounds singing, fluid, warm and ...
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Interpret an chain of attributes combined via "and"/ "or" in english and other languages?
The question is, what is the most correct way to interpret a chain of attributes, say of the noun but also possible of a verb, connected together with multiple and and or conjunction, in english or in ...
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How meaning of words get richer by adding adjectives?
I'm looking for resources to study how meaning of words get richer by adding adjectives. I don't know the terms, so I don't know where to look. I want to use them in computational linguistics.
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What is a good multi language translation system for individual parts of speech such as verbs, nouns, adjectives?
I am developing a language learning tool in Python that generates dual-language books intended to be read as audio books.
The system should work by giving single word translations after every ...
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Up-to-date performance comparison of speech recognition over time
I am looking for an up-to-date (as of 2022) figure or table which displays the improvement in speech recognition on benchmarks for read and spontaneous speech over time, ideally in terms of word error ...
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Finding phonetic similarity of names in different languages
I am trying to come up with a way using Python to find phonetic similarities between how
differently written names with different meanings in different languages might sound alike. Names can be ...
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How can you computationally apply a grammar rule to a sentence?
I would like to use a rigorous and comprehensive theory of the grammar of English to formulate some grammar rule and then computationally/programmatically check whether a sentence abides by it (not as ...
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Other name for "Predeterminer"/"Noun Premodifier" Dependency Relation?
I'm reading a paper which makes use of word dependency relationships from the Stanford Dependencies (SD) list.
One such relation they refer to as "Predeterminer" and "Noun Premodifer&...
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How to define sentence complexity?
I am not a pure linguist but rather at the intersection of computational linguistics, NLP and computer science. Thus please be cautious with me and my ignorance. I am looking for definitions of ...
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Turing-completeness of Minimalism and HPSG
I read several times that HPSG and Minimalism are Turing-complete. Could someone explain (or tell me some references) why this is the case? And does this constitute a major problem since natural ...
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Can someone explain to me the Zipf–Mandelbrot law?
I really can't understand. It's about linguistics and I can't understand anything because there are mathematical formulas in it that I can't understand at all. Can anyone explain this with ...
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Which syntactic dependency parsers perform best on search query phrases?
Lots of NLP libraries contain syntactic dependencies parsers (e.g. spaCy, NLTK, Stanford NLP, Spark NLP...). As I understand it (please correct me if I'm wrong), these are mostly designed to parse ...
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Bilingual corpora work from the late 1980s
Does anyone know if the paper by Warwick and Russell (often cited as below) exists? I have looked on the EURALEX website and the authors are not listed as speakers in the 4th Conference. Maybe the ...
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Book suggestions for a concise introduction to computational linguistics?
I am fairly new to the field of linguistics and am looking for a book as a fairly concise basic introduction to computational linguistics (I already have some computer science background). What is a ...
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Can I simply check the unicode or UTF-8 mapping of character to infer the language?
I am given a language detection problem. I was wondering if it could be solved just by looking at the encoding map of characters used and decide which language it is. Is there too much overlap of ...
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Large parallel corpus of English and Farsi text
hope you are doing well.
I am looking for a large parallel corpus of English and Farsi text, professionally written or edited. I would be more than happy to have your suggestions.
Thank you all.
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Is the way words are used the biggest obstacle in understanding science and technology? [closed]
Do I have a point to say that, in the area of science, people have difficulties understanding it mostly due to the way words are used to describe whatever it may be? One may understand the words ...
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