Nathan Vaillette's Papers and Presentations

• Logical Specification of Finite-State Transductions for Natural Language Processing. PhD Thesis, Ohio State University, 2004. (Abstract/.ps.gz/.pdf)
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• "Logical specification of regular relations for NLP". 2003. In Natural Language Engineering 9(1): 65-85. Cambridge University Press.
• "Flexible summativity: a type-logical approach to plural semantics." OSU Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 56 (.ps.gz)
• "Logical specification of transducers for NLP." Talk given in the Workshop on Finite State Methods in NLP, ESSLLI'01, University of Helsinki, August 20-24 2001.
• "A monadic second-order logic front-end for the Finite State Utilities." Invited talk given at the Center for Cognition and Language Groningen, University of Groningen, April 20 2001. (abstract)
• Book review, 2001: Deutsche Syntax Deklarativ: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar für das Deutsche, by Stefan Müller, 1999, Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen. In Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 4:1, p.69-84.
• "Resumptive pronoun constructions as unbounded dependencies." Talk presented at the International Workshop on HPSG, Tübingen, November 3 & 4, 2000. (abstract/handout)
• "Problems with an algebraic approach to weak islands." Draft. (.ps.gz)
• "Hebrew relative clauses in HPSG." In: Flickinger, D. and A. Kathol (2001), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, CSLI Publications.
• "The distributive entailments of collective predicates." In Kruijff-Korbayova, Ivana (ed.) 1998, Proceedings of the Third ESSLLI Student Session. (.ps.gz)