• A Constructicon for Russian: Filling in the Gaps 

      Janda, Laura Alexis; Lyashevskaya, Olga; Nesset, Tore; Rakhilina, Ekaterina; Tyers, Francis Morton (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2018)
      The Russian Constructicon project currently prioritizes multi-word constructions that are not represented in dictionaries and that are especially useful for learners of Russian. The immediate goal is to identify constructions and determine the semantic constraints on their slots. The Russian Constructicon is being built in parallel with the Swedish Constructicon and will ultimately model the entire ...
    • Less is more: why all paradigms are defective, and why that is a good thing 

      Janda, Laura Alexis; Tyers, Francis Morton (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-21)
      Only a fraction of lexemes are encountered in all their paradigm forms in any corpus or even in the lifetime of any speaker. This raises a question as to how it is that native speakers confidently produce and comprehend word forms that they have never witnessed. We present the results of an experiment using a recurrent neural network computational learning model. In particular, we com- pare the ...
    • Recent advances in Apertium, a free/open-source rule-based machine translation platform for low-resource languages 

      Khanna, Tanmai; Washington, Jonathan North; Tyers, Francis Morton; Bayatlı, Sevilay; Swanson, Daniel; Pirinen, Flammie; Tang, Irene; Alos i Font, Héctor (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-08)
      This paper presents an overview of Apertium, a free and open-source rule-based machine translation platform. Translation in Apertium happens through a pipeline of modular tools, and the platform continues to be improved as more language pairs are added. Several advances have been implemented since the last publication, including some new optional modules: a module that allows rules to process recursive ...
    • Subsegmental language detection in Celtic language text 

      Tyers, Francis Morton; Minocha, Akshay (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2014)
      This paper describes an experiment to perform language identification on a sub-sentence basis. The typical case of language identification is to detect the language of documents or sentences. However, it may be the case that a single sentence or segment contains more than one language. This is especially the case in texts where code switching occurs.