Semantics
We explore the use of abstract, metaphorical expressions in everyday communication. Some questions we ask are
- How can we give a scientific definition of the abstract-concrete distinction in natural language?
- How do language users interpret this distinction?
- What structure can we identify behind everyday metaphorical language use?
- In what way does our perception of physical reality interract with our use of language to describe abstract concepts?
- How do young children learn abstract concepts and associated language?
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Language acquisition
I do research on the morpho-syntactic development of English-speaking and Hungarian pre-school children
- theory-driven, quantitative corpus-analysis method with the help of the CHILDES tools
- topics include: argument structure, case marking, verb morphology, word order, anaphora
- theoretical interests: universal grammar, analogical generalization, statistical learning
Some articles and conference slides |
Natural language processing
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Parser
I am developing a Hungarian grammar for a rule-based parser.
The output of the parser is a labelled bracketed tree diagram showing predicate-argument relations.
Some people also working on the project: Bálint Gábor,
Gábor Hamp, András Kárpáti, András
Rung.
Articles and conference slides
A closely related project: Szószablya, a Hungarian morphology analyzer |
CHILDES
We are planning to develop a tool for the automatic annotation of Hungarian child language corpora with the help of the Szószablya morphology analyzer and the parser. The tool is to be used with CHILDES, an international database and computational data analysis toolset for the study of child language. |
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