International Postdoctoral Fellows Program: The Expression of Information Structure Through Prosody and Word Order

9424023 Hoffman国际青年研究员和博士后研究员计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究。该计划的奖励为联合研究提供了机会，并利用独特或互补的设施、专业知识和国外的实验条件。该奖项将支持Beryl a . Hoffman博士与elisabeth Engdahl博士在苏格兰爱丁堡认知科学中心进行为期12个月的博士后研究访问。这个项目将涉及使用韵律和词序变化作为策略来表达句子的信息结构，描述句子如何与上下文相关。PI将专注于对土耳其语的数据进行建模，并调查可以在其他相对自由的词序语言（如德语）和固定词序语言（如英语）中进行的跨语言概括。她将包括可以集成到土耳其语/英语机器翻译系统中的实现。韵律和词序变化的正确使用对机器翻译和语音生成的实际应用具有重要意义。机器翻译系统，特别是那些包括口语生成的机器翻译系统，在欧洲是一个非常活跃的研究领域，比如最近的ESPRIT POLYGLOT项目。＊＊＊

9424023 Hoffman The International Junior Investigator and Postdoctoral Fellows Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty-four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad. This award will support a twelve-month postdoctoral research tisit by Dr. Beryl A. Hoffman to work with Dr. Elisabet Engdahl at the Centre for Cognitive Science in Edinburgh, Scotland. This project will involve the investigation of the use of prosody and word order variation as strategies to express the information structure of a sentence that describes how a sentence relates to its context. The PI will concentrate on modelling the data in Turkish and investigate the cross- linguistic generalizations that can be made in other relatively free word order languages such as German and in fixed word order languages such as English. She will include implementations that can be integrated into a Turkish/English machine translation system. The proper use of prosody and word order variation is of considerable importance in developing practical applications in machine translation and speech generation. Machine translation systems, especially those including spoken language generation are a very active area of research in Europe, such as the recent ESPRIT POLYGLOT project. ***