automatically constructing a lexicon of verb phrase idiomatic combinations

... corresponding to the basic semantics of the verb. 341 Automatically Constructing a Lexicon of Verb Phrase Idiomatic Combinations Afsaneh Fazly Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Toronto, ... can motivate a speaker to use a variant in place of a canonical form (Glucksberg, 1993). Nevertheless, lexical and syntactic flexibility may well be used as partial indicators of semantic ana- lyzability, ... the beans has an idiomatic meaning (“to reveal a secret”), while spill the peas and spread the beans have only literal interpretations. Idiomatic combinations are also syntactically peculiar: most...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 20:20

... though. As we have illustrated above and will elaborate below, these words can carry a wide variety of semantic and pragmatic overtones, which render the choice of a marker meaning- driven, as ... not apply. Knott and Mellish [1996] provide an apt summary of the situation. Their 'test for relational phrases' is a good start, but geared towards the English language (we are ... on Natural Language Generation, Niagara-on-the-lake/Canada, 1998. G. Helbig, J. Buscha. Deutsche Grammatik: Ein Handbuch f~r den AusMnderunterricht. Berlin, Leipzig: Langenscheidt, Verlag...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20

... parallels for each calendar month were merged into a reference series matching the candidate station. Each parallel was adjusted to match the statistical characteristics of the candidate to avoid ... there is an adequate set of stations with a complete record. Although the normal may vary considerably over a small area, for most aspects of climate the variations from year to year take place on ... greater, and for variables (such as temperature) that vary on larger spatial scales (Figure 8). When normals had been estimated for as many stations as possible, the absolute values in the databases were...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20

... In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Associ- ation for Computational Linguistics, pages 61–67. Tomohide Shibata, Daisuke Kawahara, Masashi Okamoto, Sadao Kurohashi, and Toyoaki Nishida. 2003. ... Linguistics Compiling a Lexicon of Cooking Actions for Animation Generation Kiyoaki Shirai Hiroshi Ookawa Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 1-1, Asahidai, Nomi, 923-1292, Ishikawa, Japan {kshirai,h-ookawa}@jaist.ac.jp Abstract This ... developed SEAFACT (Semantic Analysis For the Animation of Cooking Tasks), which analyzed verbal modifiers to determine several features of an action, such as the aspectual category of an event,...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 01:20

... colour of the leaves of the Amarantus. The words amarantin, amarantine and amaranthine, signifying ‘fadeless’, ‘immortal’ or ‘unwithering’, refer to Pliny’s imaginary and never fading amaranth ... fuchsine and magenta. n anomalscope Testing equipment used to diagnose the existence of colour-blindness and to measure its severity. n anotta, anotto, anatto, anato, anatta, annatto, arnotto, arnatto, ... tinting quality used in making printing inks. n alkanet An ancient red or orange dye from the roots of the Mediterranean plant of the same name and of the same genus as the alcanna. Also called ‘anchusa’....

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Ngày tải lên: 14/10/2014, 01:01

... 17(4):295– 313. Sebastian Pado and Mirella Lapata. 2003. Constructing se- mantic space models from parsed corpora. In Proc. of ACL. Chris D. Paice. 1981. The automatic generation of lit- erary abstracts: an approach ... text, all instances of the input verbs are located and, based on the grammatical relations output by RASP 6 , a set of relevant en- 6 The grammatical relations used are nsubj, dobj, iobj, aux, argmod, ... Gold standard evaluation We evaluated the quality of the extracted phrases in two ways: by comparing our system output to gold standard annotation, and by human judge- ment of the quality of the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21

... complement. All of these mentioned above are nominal functions. In addition, noun phrases can function as adverbials, as vocatives, and as appositions. Furthermore, noun phrases can be used as an adjective to ... head of noun phrase. A noun in the genitive may function as determiner in the noun phrase. Since noun phrase has different functions they are abundant in any text. If we take away the noun phrases ... is noun-headed phrases; the other one is pronoun-headed phrase. Pronoun-headed phrases play different functions as the same as noun-headed phrases do. In addition, pronoun-headed phrases play different...

Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2014, 05:20

... natural language queries and translate them into a database query language. Also, WOLFIE could possibly assist in translation from one natural language to another. 2 Problem Definition and ... percentage of this overlap. At each iteration, the first step is to find and add to the output this best (w,t) pair. Note that t can also be part of the representation of a large percentage of ... [food,type:pasta], [food], and [pasta]. Since all of these have 100% coverage in this example set, any of them could be chosen as the meaning representation for pasta. Again, for clarity, we...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 09:20

... Ferran Sagarra, Txatxo Sabater, Joaquim Sabater, Jaume Llobet, and Miquel Corominas, 11-25. Barcelona: Fundacio Caixa de Catalunya/Collegi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya. Soria, ... Sagarra, Txatxo Sabater, Joaquim Sabater, Jaume Llobet, and Miquel Corominas, 11-25. Barcelona: Fundacio Caixa de Catalunya/Collegi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya. Soria, Arturo. ... period, a new Catalan political party-the Lliga Regional- ista-still resorted to that argument against centralist rule. Puig i Cadafalch, an outstanding member of that party and a very...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 21:20

... not a question of how a verb phrase describes a kind of situation. Rather, it is a question of how a clause represents the actualization of a situation. (Both ontological aspect and actualization ... not to iterative grammatical aspect Ϫ see 1.24 Ϫ nor to the fact that clauses may get an iterative reading as a result of grammatical combinations, such as the combination of punctual Aktionsart with ... (Non)habitual aspect is a form of grammatical aspect because it is expressed by means of the form of the verb (viz . the use of a special auxiliary and / or suffix). Moreover, repetitive habitual aspect...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 02:18

... writing of the book by commenting on an earlier draft of one or more chapters. In alphabetical order they are: Griet Beheydt, Ilse Depraetere, Raphael Salkie, Elizabeth Traugott, Naoaki Wada, and ... Williams. The Grammar of the English Verb Phrase Volume 1: The Grammar of the English Tense System A Comprehensive Analysis by Renaat Declerck in collaboration with Susan Reed and Bert Cappelle Mouton ... Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Declerck, Renaat. The grammar of the English tense system : a comprehensive analysis / by Renaat Declerck in cooperation with Susan Reed and Bert Cappelle. p....

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... a sum- mary of this first chapter. I. General introductory remarks 5 account for tense in English, rather than a comparative study of other analyses or a comparison of our analysis with the analyses ... mood and modality 38 IV. The precise meanings and uses of ‘situation’ and ‘actualization’ 40 1.28 Definition of ‘situation’, ‘actualize’ and ‘actualization’ 40 1.29 Situation: meaning (denotation) ... situa- tions are the semantic category expressed by clauses, it is necessary to examine what semantic categories are expressed by smaller linguistic units, like verbs and verb phrases, which are often also said...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... contrast between a ‘state verb and a ‘dynamic verb ) and introduce the category of ‘actualization aspect’ (which contrasts with both grammatical aspect and lexical aspect and involves a single ... nonprototypical phrases that consist of a head only. Thus the sentence Jill smokes is a combination of a noun phrase and a verb phrase. 1. There are several other terms that are similarly used as cover-terms ... basic linguistic terms such as verb phrase or ‘situation’ as we will use them, and give a brief overview of the three main areas of grammaticalized verbal meaning which interact with one another, 10...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... subclauses have a function that is typically associated with a noun (phrase) , an adjective (phrase) or an adverb (phrase) . We speak of nominal clauses (or noun clauses ), adjectival clauses and adverbial ... the clause on which a given subclause is syntactically and semantically dependent. A head clause may be a clause that does not syntactically depend on any other clause, but it may also be a subclause ... becoming auxiliaries in that they have a contracted form (I wanna go to Italy), which is characteristic of auxiliaries, not of full verbs. The full verbs be and have also allow contraction, as in...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... used as an entry in dictionaries). 1.16 The formation of the past tense The regular past tense indicative form consists of the stem of the verb and a suffix usually written as -ed. The fact that ... weeks that Bill has been saying that he is going to pay me back.’) 1.18.4 We can conclude that absolute and relative tenses express a single tem- poral relation, while absolute-relative tenses and ... tenses. III. Meaning categories expressed by verb forms 25 1.17.3 In the first person, both singular and plural, the auxiliary shall is pos- sible as a (rather formal and less usual) alternative to...

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