The statistical distribution of coherence (rhetorical) relations with respect to the signals used to indicate those relations, and The statistical distribution of signals with respect to the relations ...

VerbNet (Kipper-Schuler 2005) is a hierarchical domain- independent, broad-coverage verb lexicon with mappings to several widely-used verb resources, including WordNet (Miller 1990, Fellbaum 1998), ...

As part of a project on discourse parsing, we have built a discourse segmenter based on syntactic and lexical information. A discourse segmenter takes text as input, and produces as output the minimal ...

Recent lexicalist analyses of predicates expressed by syntactically independent elements, raise central questions concerning the domain in which such complex predicates are composed. Should they be ...

The research published in Language Acquisition makes a clear contribution to linguistic theory by increasing our understanding of how language is acquired. The journal focuses on the acquisition of ...

In a new article appearing in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by Cory Shain and Hope Kean, explore how the human brain shows ...