Language Elicitation and Control Structures

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Language Elicitation and Control Structures
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Research Outline

• Feature Structures
• Sentence Generation
• Data Structures
• Control Structure
• Analysis

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Feature Structures

• Individual words or phrases will have their own
  feature structures
• The entire sentence will have a feature structure
• Will be determined based on the Comrie-Smith
  Checklist
• Items can be easily added or deleted if needed

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Feature Structure/ Sentence Generation
VP Class Conditional Valency transitive
NP/N Pers 3rd Number sg Animacy
inanimate Det True
S Type Demonstrative
NP PronounT
NP/ProN Pers 1st Number sg
S
VP
NP
mod
VP
NP/N Pers 3rd
ProN
V
NP
N
Det
Can
Eat
A
Sandwich
I
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Control Structure

• Elicit proper names / foreign words
• Elicit NPs?
• Check Mother and Daughter constituents

Sentence Level
Verb Modifiers
Pronouns
Nouns
Noun Modifiers/ Determiners
Verbs/ Verb Complexes
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Analysis

• Focus on one grammatical function at a time
• Compare whole sentences based on feature vectors
• Rank results
• Carefully merge features based on sentence
  comparisons

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Problems

• Keeping feature vectors small
• Generating accurate sentences
• Keeping overall corpus small
• Translating trees and sentences to Spanish
• Knowing when to merge features
• Being too cautious could lead to an impossible to
  complete corpus
• Lacking caution could cause mistakes