• Research that shows awareness of a particular linguistic phenomenon and its effects on statistical systems: Caines and Buttery discuss the zero auxiliary construction (You talking to me?), awareness of which can improve performance of NLP on spoken English. Samaradzic and Merlo suggest that awareness of different types of light verb constructions could affect word alignment. Su, Huang, and Chen show that the linguistic notion of evidentiality can be used for automatic detection of trustworthiness. 
