... that their sys-tem represents a powerful way of dealing with su-perlatives computationally, a closer inspection of their approach, and in particular of the gold stan-dard data set, reveals ... Elements ofaComputational Treat-ment ofSuperlatives For an interpretation of comparisons, two things are generally of interest: What is being compared, and with respect to what this comparison ... 69Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Student Research Workshop, pages 67–72,Prague, June 2007.c2007 Association for Computational Linguistics Towards aComputationalTreatmentofSuperlatives Silke...
... Sentence-initial 'then' and sentence- final 'at the time' and 'at the same time' are also included, although we do not discuss their analysis here. There is a range of verbs, ... climb(X,Y) al named(X,'Emily') named(Y,'Ben Nevis') Figure 2: An EKN proposition abstract or 'type'. anchored to an individual named 'Emily' and Y to an individual ... example, in an eating event, the object is gradually consumed, and in a writing event, the object is gradually created. Both 'eat' and 'write', as well as 'climb'...
... martinis, Jean a apercu Marie After three martinis John saw Mary Note that "cause" in some cases is really a form of enablement, a fact hidden by the use ofa generic label cause in ... Krifka de- fines telic/atelic as a predicate of predicates; the lat- ter have objects as well as events in their domains, and, linguistically, they are nominal as well as ver- bal predicates. ... lexically driven The notion of coercion owes much of its attractive- ness to its potential generality: having a separate general set of rules able to generate a set of accept- able interpretations...
... generating adequate meanings for a locative expression in a particular situation, is our benchmark for representational adequacy. The spatial meaning Ofa projective preposi- tional predication ... is a conceptualiza- tion of the space around a reference object as six 4Natural language sentences are parsed to three branch quantifiers using a prolog DCG grammar, the logical predicates ... current computational linguistic approaches. We have attempted to tackle the in- formality of this ideational view of meaning, by addressing one particular basic cognitive domain, that of oriented...
... M. Sato, M. Nakagawa and N.Makoshi. 2004. Tele-Synopsis for Biblical Research:Development of NLP based Synoptic Software for TextAnalysis as a Mediator of Educational Technology andKnowledge ... linguistic and literary-critical approachesto text-reuse analysis, and can be especially help-ful when dealing with a large amount of candidatesource texts.AcknowledgementsThis work grew out ofa ... both a simplification of and an ex-tension to the one advocated in (Barzilay and El-hadad, 2003). On the one hand, we perform no para-graph clustering or mapping before sentence align-ment. Ancient...
... effects are contradic- tory. A reasonable view of LetterGen's approach is that there is a acr/pt associated with each speech act that captures the causal chain of effects that poten- tlally ... edges can be traversed (although hey are 1023 A Computational Model of Social Perlocutions David Pautler and Alex Quilici University of Hawaii at Manoa Department of Electrical Engineering ... expressing a demand can bring about compliance, anger, or both, and similarly, anger can be caused by a variety of other acts, such as issuing a threat. In Figure 3, both praising and apologizing are...
... 1992) are generated, they can never be cancelled. We are not aware of any forma- lism or computational approach that offers a unified explanation for the cancellability of pragmatic infe- rences ... in a logical framework that handles de- faults (Reiter, 1980), but this approach is not tracta- ble and it treats natural disjunction as an exclusive- or and implication as logical equivalence. ... contains more information and that information can be more easily updated in the fu- ture. That means that if an interpretation m0 makes an utterance true by assigning to a relation R a defensible...
... eztend/retraet can be analyzed as a modifier of cycle, a process word. Fuze setter, a part name, can be treated as a unit because noun sequences consisting of part names are generally local in nature. ... ). In addition, it can be a repair action (alignment, repair), an assistance actions ( assistance ), and so on. Only modifiers with appropriate semantic and syntactic category can be adjoined. ... the Oflace of Naval Research and the Ofllce of Naval Technology PE-62721N. The author gratefully acknowledges the efforts of Joan Bachenko, Judy Froseher, and Ralph Grishman in pro- ceasing...
... Universfitatis C.aroli, nae: Slavica 2ra~ensia 2. ~. Z.av<~Lov~ Eva. 1~7 =. Re~ro~r~dnf :~orfe:aat~ck~' slovn~,~ ceot~n E [A retrograde morphematicd[ctiona- ry of Czech). Praha: Academia. ... project of man-machine cozununication without a pre-arranged data base (TIBAQ). The kind of morphemic analysis z~resented here is based on a retrograde (right-to-left) analysis of words by means ... to grammatical agreement, also with verbs and adjectives in the above mentioned way, and because in tech- nical texts substantially more masculine- -animate than feminine-animate nouns are...
... The Ashanti are an AKAN-speaking people of central Ghana and neighboring regions of Togo and Ivory Coast, numbering more than 900,000. They subsist primarily by farming cacao, a major cash ... to a clause, another sentence add,~cl tO a paragraph, and so on. Which attachment points exist at any moment is a function of the surface structure's configuration at that moment and ... relative clauses, not all full clauses can be reduced to participial adjectives. 2. The characteristics of the available attachment points, especiafly the grammatical constraints that they...
... (healthily) nominal - adnominal keiko no (Keiko-GEN), g~nki na (healthy) verbal - adverbial waratte (laugh-and), amaku (sweetly) verbal - adnominal warau (that laughs), amakatta (that was sweet) ... Tonology. Kaitakusha, Tokyo. Kaplan, Ronald and Joan Bresnan (1982) Lexical Functional Grammar: A Formal System for Grammatical Representation. in The Mental Representation of Grammatical Relations, ... argue instead for the theory assumed here, and a preliminary treatment is presented. A CATEGORIAL UNIFICATION APPROACH TO JAPANESE I will identify the fundamental unit of Japanese syntax...
... Worcester Road,Rexdale, Ontario, M9W 1L1, CanadaLibrary of Congress Cataloguing in Publication DataLong, D. A. (Derek Albert)The Raman effect : a unified treatmentof the theory of Raman scattering ... 215Raman spectra of 170rotation and vibration-rotation Ramanspectra of 204–207symmetric 40, 44linear polarization 565–566, 569 of monochromatic radiation 132tlinear polarized radiation ... of Quantum Mechanical Treatmentof IncoherentLight Scattering to Include Magnetic Dipole and ElectricQuadrupole Cases 272.6 Comparison of t he Classical and Quantum MechanicalTreatments of...
... Zadeh, L .A. , Acomputational approach to fuzzy quantifiers in natural languages, Computers and Mathematics Y (198 3a) 149-184. Zadeh, L .A. , Linguistic variables, approximate reasoning and ... be a fuzzy set in A (e.g., U A cars and A ~ station wagons). The definition ofa typical element ofA may be expressed in verbal terms as follows: t is a typical element ofA if and ... 3. For each Namei, find the degree to which Name i is young: ai A ~YOUNG[Age=Ai ] , where a i may be interpreted as the grade of 314 6' ~ A and B EAA F A B andD , and Qa= Q1...
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