... methods and design of the study.
Chapter II introduces an overview of English adjectives with the
definitions ofadjectives and their semantic and syntactic functions of English
adjectives.
Chapter ... non- gradable adjectives.
3.2.1 Gradable and non-gradable adjectives
As we know that most adjectives are gradable. The writer finds out nine
kinds ofadjectives belong to gradable adjectives group ... analyzing these adjectives, and basing on semantic functions of
English adjectives, the writer would like to list their semantic functions of the
gradable adjectives as follows:
Most adjectives...
... FORMATION OF COMPOUND ADJECTIVES
(A Supplement to English 10 & English 12)
Tính từ kép (Compound Adjectives) trong tiếng Anh có cấu trúc sau:
Tính...
... respect of semantics, “glad” and
“pleased” have one of their senses of
denoting the feeling of pleasure when
something good has happened. “Cheerful”
has one of three senses suggesting one of the ... collocations [3,4] and
idioms of which the adjectives denoting
pleasure is a component [3-5].
2. Grammatical features and semanticsof
adjectives denoting pleasure
The adjectives “cheerful”, “gay”, ...
feeling of pleasure to that of great pleasure,
the English language is not poor in the
expressions of the feeling. More concretely,
the feeling of happiness can be expressed by
such adjectives...
... hypotheses of latent vectors for
the definition of bank#n#1
2 Learning Latent Semanticsof Definitions
2.1 Intuition
Given only a few observed words in a definition,
there are many hypotheses of latent ... construct a sense
similarity by latent semanticsof sense definitions.
6 Conclusions
We construct a sense similarity wmfvec from the la-
tent semanticsof sense definitions. Experiment re-
sults ... funded by the Of ce of the Di-
rector of National Intelligence (ODNI), Intelligence
Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA),
through the U.S. Army Research Lab. All state-
ments of fact, opinion...
... representation of
physical objects from the two-level semanticsof
Bierwisch and Lang. In particular the dimensions
of the process of
conventwnal imagery
are used
as a metric for the design of our ... imagery.
The first section of this paper introduces the
semantics of projective prepositions (eg. "in front
of& quot;, "behind", "left of& quot;, "right of& quot;), illustrating ...
Pdir,~ : 2
Here the x-axis points direction of the half-
axis of the particular side of the reference axis in
the DCS; and in the case of "in front of& quot; y is the
perpendicular direction...
... duration of
each of these actions.
65
Defining the Semanticsof Verbal Modifiers
in the Domain of Cooking Tasks
Robin F. Karlin
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania ... meaning of frequency adverbials is best captured
by stating the length of the intervals between repe-
titions of the action. For example, the meaning of
occasionally is that the number of minutes ... linguistic study of recipes was con-
ducted with the goals of delimiting the scope of the
cooking domain, identifying important verbal mod-
ifiers, and defining the semanticsof those modifiers....
... order of prenominal adjectives in English.
2 Word bigram model
The problem of generating ordered sequences of
adjectives is an instance of the more general prob-
lem of selecting among a number of ... num-
ber of words, of which a relatively small fraction
are adjectives. In practice, the available sources
of semantic information only provide semantic
classifications for fairly common adjectives, ... which
takes values V as the weighted sum of the entropy
of each of the values V:
H(D
f
) =
∑
v
i
∈V
H(D
f=v
i
)
|D
f=v
i
|
|D|
Here H(D
f=v
i
) is the entropy of subset of the in-
stance base which has...
... selection of co-occurrences is part of the lexical pro-
cess, in other words, if
there are
reasons not to choose a co-
occurrence because of the presence of modifiers or because
of stylistics ... an offence,
dance marathon, marriage ceremony
object of derision
LSFs and Inheritance We take advantage of 1)
the semantics encoded in the lexemes, and 2) an in-
heritance hierarchy of ... called a collocate of it Collocation
is the occurrence of two or more words within a
short space of each other in a text". The prob-
lem is that with such a definition of collocations,...
... logic time-dependency of infor-
mation enters into the definition of the notion of a
proposition. Propositions are defined as functions
from a set of times TI to the set of truth values true ... and
Semantics of Tense
In the previous sections I have focused on the
semantic and pragmatic aspects of my analysis of
temporal expressions, that concern in particular the
feature of narrow ... context. One of the counterarguments that
one may raise against this context-dependent aspect
of my analysis of temporal semantics concerns the
fact that tracking the salience of objects and...
... the semantics
of the complex word is structure shared with the
semantics of the head.
(Riehemann, 1993) found that subcategorization
frames were incompatible with her data. Instead
of a ... the formation of bar-
adjectives via a lexical inheritance hierarchy of sorts.
Different sorts correspond to different types of verbal
bases (transitive, dative, etc.). New adjectives are ... and subcategorization frames.
In their model, -bar is of sort bar-surf and subcate-
gorizes for verbs of sort bar-verb to form adjectives
of sort bar-comp-adj. Complex words have a headed
binary...
... ev-
idence of state change are less approximate (say in
chemistry), it is not clear that it is always one of the
clauses that is performing the role of establishing
the truth of the sentence. ... Karlin's second
category "duration of repetition of an action". The
name "duration of an action" conflates the concept
of the basic action and its repetition. The sepa- ... the use of domain knowledge into ac-
count, to give a more general analysis.
From the point of view of repetition, what we
are given is a stopping condition, that is coded in
terms of two...
... field of a record; vzzern,
which returns the size of its argument, which is
assumed to be a set; sum, which returns the sum of '.'-s
list of inputs; aug, which returns the average of ... Stage 3, Prep acquires the semanticsof adjectives,
verbs, and other modifier types, based upon the
following principles.
1. Systems which attempt to acquire complex
semantics from relatively ... which returns the average of its list
of inputs; and pct, which returns the percentage of its
list of boolean arguments which are true. Other user-
defined adjectives may also be used. Thus, a...
... L and sets of lists
of members of D to predicates in L, the length of a
list being equal to the number of arguments in the
predicate to which it corresponds; and (f} is a set
of functions, ... interpretation ~ of L
is a triple <D, R, (~}>, where D is a set of
individuals, the domain of ~; R is~ function, the
interpretation function of I, that assigns members
of D to individual ... there is a set of
functions that are entirely implicit in Figure 6.
Since (19) generates a value of s from a value of
y, and (20) generates a value of b from
that
value
of s, there is an...
... unlexicalized parsing. In Proceedings of the
41st Meeting of the Association of Computational
Linguistics.
Stephen C. Levinson. 2000. Presumptive Meanings:
The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implica-
ture. ... answers: 70% of the category I items and
74% of the category II items have a positive an-
swer as dominant response. Examining a subset
of the Dialog Act corpus, we found that 38% of
the yes/no ... instance of the adjective in the ques-
tion (category II in our corpus).
Adjectives that can receive a conventional unit
of measure, such as little or long, inherently pos-
sess a degree of vagueness...