A general computational model for word-form recognition and production
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Robust parsing with weighted constraints
Natural Language Engineering
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We present a computationally tractable account of the interactions between sentence markers and focus marking in Somali. Somali, as a Cushitic language, has a basic pattern wherein a small 'core' clause is preceded, and in some cases followed by, a set of 'topics', which provide scene-seting information against which the core is interpreted. Some topics appear to carry a 'focus marker', indicating that they are particularly salient. We will outline a computationally tractable grammar for Somali in which focus marking emerges naturally from a consideration of the use of a range of sentence markers.