This study systematically reviews existing approaches to unsupervised grammar induction in
terms of their theoretical underpinnings, practical implementations and evaluation. Our …

Automatic identification of the grammatical structure of a sentence is useful in many Natural
Language Processing (NLP) applications such as Document Summarisation, Question …

This dissertation seeks to shed light on the question of adult language acquisition by
exploring learners' knowledge of fine-grained statistical patterns in Spanish …

I present a novel algorithm for minimally supervised formal grammar induction using a
linguistically-motivated grammar formalism. This algorithm, called the Missing Link algorithm …

In the first section of this proposal, we introduce the problem of ontology elicitation and some
of the motivation for examining it. In section 2 we critically examine some related work …