Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Index of synthesis data
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| Author: | Hugo Cesar de Castro Carneiro | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Morphology
Syntax |
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| Query: |
My M.Sc. thesis is called ''The function of the index of synthesis of the
languages in part-of-speech tagging with weightless artificial neural networks''. In this thesis my motivation is based on ''like vs. gostam (Portuguese for ''they like'')'' paradigm. In which ''like'' has an ambiguous part of speech, as it can be a preposition, a conjunction, a verb or even other part of speech, needing to have a word like ''they'' adjacent to it in order to help readers to know that it is a ''verb'' (in this context). On the other hand, ''gostam'' in Portuguese is always a verb, as the ''-am'' suffix informs the reader that ''gostam'' is really a verb. So, I am testing a system I've developed in 5 languages: Mandarin Chinese, English, Portuguese, German and Turkish (from the most isolating language to the most synthetic). And when I get the information I need from these 5 languages, I will test the system in 4 others: Thai (more synthetic than Mandarin Chinese and more isolating than English), Japanese (more synthetic than English and more isolating than Portuguese), Italian (more synthetic than Portuguese and more isolating than German) and Russian (more synthetic than German and more isolating than Turkish). But I have one problem: The indices of synthesis of these languages are only estimated by me, and maybe even their order is somewhat wrong (is Portuguese or German the most synthetic?). I would like to know if someone can help me find an index of synthesis of these languages? Or where can I get a text in each of these languages with all words with each of their morphemes separated? I am concluding my master studies this year, but I need to send a paper to a journal before I get my M.Sc. in Computer Science degree. |
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| LL Issue: | 22.4036 | |
| Date posted: | 15-Oct-2011 | |
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