Valia Kordoni

• Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

The advent of Industry 5.0 as a defining concept for the future, which advocates a human-centric coalescence of humans and technology or software, renders the skilled workforce the most important asset in any organization or business. The society is 'forced' to adapt itself to technological change and progress for setting the necessary skillsets fo...

Citations are crucial artifacts to provide additional information to the reader to comprehend the research under concern. There are different roles that citations play in scientific discourse. Correctly identifying the intent of the citations finds applications ranging from predicting scholarly impact, finding idea propagation, to text summarizatio...

In the present review paper by members of the collaborative research center “Register: Language Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation” (CRC 1412), we assess the pervasiveness of register phenomena across different time periods, languages, modalities, and cultures. We define “register” as recurring variation in language use depending...

There has been considerable work recently in the natural language community and elsewhere on Responsible AI. Much of this work focuses on fairness and biases (henceforth Risks 1.0), following the 2016 best seller: Weapons of Math Destruction . Two books published in 2022, The Chaos Machine and Like, Comment, Subscribe , raise additional risks to pu...

Many papers are chasing state-of-the-art (SOTA) numbers, and more will do so in the future. SOTA-chasing comes with many costs. SOTA-chasing squeezes out more promising opportunities such as coopetition and interdisciplinary collaboration. In addition, there is a risk that too much SOTA-chasing could lead to claims of superhuman performance, unreal...

There are well-meaning efforts to address ethics that will likely make the world a better place, but care needs to be taken to avoid repeating mistakes of the past. In particular, ACL has recently introduced a new process where there are special reviews of some papers for ethics. We would be more comfortable with the new ethics process if there wer...

The present work is an overview of the TraMOOC (Translation for Massive Open Online Courses) research and innovation project, a machine translation approach for online educational content. More specifically, videolectures, assignments, and MOOC forum text is automatically translated from English into eleven European and BRIC languages. Unlike previ...

We describe a state-of-the-art automatic system that can acquire subcategorisation frames from raw text for a free word-order language. We use it to construct a subcategorisation lexicon of German verbs from a large Web page corpus. With an automatic verb classification paradigm we evaluate our subcategorisation lexicon against a previous classific...

An increasing number of researchers and practitioners in Natural Language Engineering face the prospect of having to work with entire texts, rather than individual sentences. While it is clear that text must have useful structure, its nature may be less clear, making it more difficult to exploit in applications. This survey of work on discourse str...

We develop a model for predicting verb sense from subcategorization information and integrate it into SSI-Dijkstra, a wide-coverage knowledge-based WSD algorithm. Adding syntactic knowledge in this way should correct the current poor performance of WSD systems on verbs. This paper also presents, for the first time, an evaluation of SSI-Dijkstra on...

Bases for discourse structure Properties of discourse structure relevant to LT Evidence for discourse structure

This paper investigates the mapping between two semantic formalisms, namely the tectogrammatical layer of the Prague Dependency Treebank 2.0 (PDT) and (Robust) Minimal Recursion Semantics ((R)MRS). It is a first attempt to relate the dependency-based annotation scheme of PDT to a compositional semantics approach like (R)MRS. A mapping algorithm tha...

In this paper we examine the definitions of raising and control in relation to passives in German and Dutch. Both languages have two (non-stative)1 passives; in German we distinguish the "agentive" passive with the auxiliary werden and the dative passive with the auxiliaries erhalten, bekommen and kriegen. Arguments in accusative case become the su...

This paper focuses on indirect prepositional arguments in a multilingual con- text. We show that the theoretical framework of HPSG (Pollard and Sag, 1994) with semantic representations in Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS; (Copes- take et al., 1999); (Copestake et al., 2001)) constitutes the appropriate theoretical basis for a robust, linguistically...

This paper describes the cooperation of four European Universities aiming at attracting more students to European master studies in Language and Communication Technologies. The cooperation has been formally approved within the framework of the new European program "Erasmus Mundus" as a Specific Support Action in 2004. The consortium also aims at cr...

Abstract In this paper I present two classes of double object constructions in Mo- dern Greek, i.e., the genitive, as well as the double accusative, ditransitive constructions. I show that these two classes differ from one another in that not both of them permit derivational processes such as the formation of ad- jectival passives. I also look at t...

This report describes the design principles and the annotation scheme for the verbmobil treebank of English developed at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. It is intended as a stylebook for the construction or use of treebank data for English. The guidelines focus on the syntactic annotation of spoken language data with its characteristics (e...

The aim of this paper is to provide a semantic account of valence alternations in Modern Greek of the following general form: (1) NPk V NPi [P NPj] —> NPk V NPj [P NPi] In other words, the valence alternations in Modern Greek we focus on in this paper are the ones involving direct internal arguments (i.e., objects) and indirect prepositional comple...

The aim of this paper is to show how large-scale (computational) grammars of natural language benefit from an organization of semantics which is based on Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS; Copestake et al. (1999)). This we are doing by providing an account of valence alternations in German based on MRS, showing how such an account makes a computatio...

This paper proposes an LMT analysis for valence alternations in Ger- man of the form NP V NP [P NP ] NP V NP [P NP ], where the indices denote referential identity. These alternations involve direct internal arguments (i.e., objects) and indirect prepositional complements, and characterize among oth- ers the behaviour of verbal predicates which par...

This paper deals with Modern Greek (henceforward MG) words ending in -menos: (1) To the nifiko wedding-dress.NEUT.N itan was ra-meno sew.PRTC.NEUT.N apo by ton the rafti tailor me with hrisi golden klosti. thread "The wedding dress was sewn by the tailor with golden thread". Agreeing with the proposal of Markantonatou et al. (1996), according to wh...

This paper deals with Modern Greek (henceforward MG) words ending in -menos: (1) To the nifiko wedding-dress.NEUT.N itan was ra-meno sew.PRTC.NEUT.N apo by ton the rafti tailor me with hrisi golden klosti. thread "The wedding dress was sewn by the tailor with golden thread". Agreeing with the proposal of Markantonatou et al. (1996), according to wh...

This paper presents a semantic analysis for Psych Verb Constructions in Modern Greek.

This paper focuses on the semantic properties and the syntactic behaviour of MG ESPVCs. Apart from the predicates mentioned above, MG ESPVCs include also predicates like fovame (fear), which feature an experiencer-subject in agreement with the verb and either an accusative theme (ex. (8)), or a theme as the object of a prepositional phrase (ex. (9)...

This paper focuses on the semantic properties and the syntactic behaviour of Modern Greek (hence MG) Experiencer-Subject Psych Verb Constructions (hence ESPVCs). MG ESPVCs include verbs like miso (hate), agapo (love), or latrevo (adore), which feature a nominative experiencer in agreement with the verb and an accusative theme (see examples (1)-(3))...

The Verbmobil treebanks of spoken German, English, and Japanese are part of the Verbmobil project, which has the overriding goal to develop a speaker-independent system for the translation of spontaneous speech. In the framework of this language technology project, the treebanks provide training data for a variety of language technology modules. Th...

Chunk parsing (see Abney, 1991, and Abney, 1996) offers a particularly promising approach for robust, partial parsing with the goal of broad data coverage. A chunk parser is particularly well suited for an application for spontaneous speech since it can deal robustly with fragmentary or ill-formed input. In order to guarantee the functionality that...

The Tübingen treebanks for spoken German, English and Japanese provide linguistic annotations for the Verbmobil dialog corpus of spontaneous speech in the scenarios of appointment negotiations, travel arrangements and personal computer maintenance. The annotation schemes of the Tübingen treebanks have been developed taking into account the specific...

this paper is to propose a linking theory able to express, without resorting to complicated analyses and idiosyncratic assumptions, a consistent and parsimonious semantic account of the Modern Greek pvcs of the following form:

With this study, a detailed semantic classification of Modern Greek deverbal adjectives ending in -tos is attempted and the semantic properties of the -tos and -menos deverbal adjectives are contrasted. Traces of an inherited argument structure are detected in the case of -menos, but no such evidence is available for the adjectives in -tos. 1 The p...

In this paper we discuss the construction, featuresand intended uses of the TiGer DB.The TiGer DB is a dependency bank derivedfrom the TiGer Treebank containing predicateargumentrelations and several grammatical featureswhich can be considered as semanticallymeaningful. It is produced semi-automaticallyby the conversion of the TiGer treebank intoan...

This paper proposes an HPSG analysis for the light verb constructions in Japanese. The analysis focuses on the form Verbal Noun and suru (VN+suru, i.e., incorporated form). The proposing classification of the Japanese VNs is based on Ohara (2000), and the HPSG analysis we propose draws on Choi and Wechsler (2001).