跨语言一致的语义和语法注释对儿童的语音
Ida Szubert1, Omri Abend2, Nathan Schneider3
1School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
概括
这项研究引入了一种用于语义上注释儿童语音 (CDS) 的新方法,在英语和希伯来语中创建平行语体. 本资源有助于理解儿童语言学习和开发计算模型.
科学领域:
- 计算语言学 计算语言学
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 语言获取 语言获取
背景情况:
- 针对儿童的语音 (CDS) 的语义注释对于理解语言学习至关重要,但缺乏标准化.
- 现有的 corpora 缺乏一致的语义表示,阻碍了跨语言的比较和计算建模.
研究的目的:
- 提出和实施一种方法来创建与逻辑形式配对的语义注释的CDS体.
- 通过强制执行一致的表示来促进儿童语言学习的跨语言研究和计算建模.
主要方法:
- 利用通用依赖 (UD) 方案在不同语言之间提供一致的语法注释.
- 开发了一种自动方法来从UD结构中转化句式逻辑形式 (LF).
- 带注释的英语 (亚当体) 和希伯来语 (哈加体) 儿童指导的发言.
主要成果:
- 创建了两个新的CDS体,在英语和希伯来语中提供一致的语法 (UD) 和语义 (LF) 注释.
- 通过注释者之间的协议和逻辑形式的手动评估来验证注释质量.
- 通过纵向研究和应用到计算语言获取模型来证明语料库的实用性.
结论:
- 拟议的方法允许构建跨语言一致的,有语义注释的CDS corpora.
- 这些资源支持对CDS中的语法和语义现象的研究,并推进语言学习的计算模型.
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