Search Results for author: Robert Berwick

Found 6 papers, 0 papers with code

Mathematical Structure of Syntactic Merge

no code implementations29 May 2023 Matilde Marcolli, Noam Chomsky, Robert Berwick

The syntactic Merge operation of the Minimalist Program in linguistics can be described mathematically in terms of Hopf algebras, with a formalism similar to the one arising in the physics of renormalization.

Descriptive

Phylogenetics of Indo-European Language families via an Algebro-Geometric Analysis of their Syntactic Structures

no code implementations5 Dec 2017 Kevin Shu, Andrew Ortegaray, Robert Berwick, Matilde Marcolli

Using Phylogenetic Algebraic Geometry, we analyze computationally the phylogenetic tree of subfamilies of the Indo-European language family, using data of syntactic structures.

A large scale annotated child language construction database

no code implementations LREC 2012 Aline Villavicencio, Beracah Yankama, Marco Idiart, Robert Berwick

This paper describes such an initiative for combining information from various sources to extend the annotation of the English CHILDES corpora with linguistic, psycholinguistic and distributional information, along with an example illustrating an application of this approach to the extraction of verb alternation information.

Language Acquisition POS +1

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