definite noun phrases in discourse

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... Among those linguistic conventions, noun phrases, in the author’s mind, seem to cause great deal of trouble when translating noun phrases in general from the source language text into the mother ... writer would suggest leaving&HQ$out as its meaning is included in &[,N, and replacingn\ n( In 78a. , the -ing clause “being out” when rendered into the target language ... exploits almost all the main functions of articles in this chapter. The indefinite article “a”, for instance, is used to refer to something indefinite or generic. For example, 10. . . . a Mr....

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... this paper we examine the pragmatic knowledge an utterance-planning system must have in order to produce certain kinds of definite and indefinite noun phrases. An utterance.planning system, like ... Underlying Noun Phrases There are many distinctions that one could draw between noun phrases, only some of which are relevant to planning. For example, one could distinguish noun phrases ... knowledge. Since there are two dimensions relevant to ,:haracteriz- ing concept activation actions, it is possible to define four 199 Some Pragmatic Issues in the Planning of Definite and Indefinite...

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... learning algorithms perform best at the task of mapping from joining terms to semantic relations for modifier -noun compounds. 2.1 Joining Terms Choosing a set of joining terms in a principled ... verb joining head noun and the modifier. One method for deducing semantic rela- tions between words in compounds involves gath- ering n-gram frequencies of these paraphrases, containing a noun, ... relation. 2.2 Machine Learning Algorithms We are also interested in comparing the perform- ance of machine learning algorithms on the task of mapping from n-gram frequencies of joining terms to...

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... (2002). Base noun phrase translation using web data and the EM algorithm. In Proceedings of CoLing. Collins, M. (1997). Three generative, lexicalized models for statistical parsing. In Proceedings of ... word graphs in statistical machine translation. In Proceedings of EMNLP. Why is there such a considerable discrepancy be- tween the number of noun phrases that can be trans- lated as noun phrases into ... segment the input sequence into a number of (non-linguistic) phrases, translate each phrase using a phrase translation table, and allow for reordering of phrases in the output. No phrases may...

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... descrlptlonal anaphora (both definite and indefinite, in Eeneric as well as in non-Eenerlc sentences) we have To pack more information into discourse referents than in standard DRT. In addition, we will ... universe of discourse. The remaining information con- rained in the sentence defines the condi- tions on the discourse referents. Now the conflict between the two interpretations of noun phrases ... anything about the existence of any objects in the world (or the model). Indefinite noun phrases and proper names introduce (i.e. assert the existence of) new discourse referents. These discourse...

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... Japanese nominal semantic dictionary using "A NO B" phrases in corpora. In Proceedings of COLING-A CL '98 workshop on the Computa- tional Treatment of Nominals. Catherine Macleod, ... interesting and promising examples in the analysis results. (5) mado 'window' no curtain 'curtain' curtain a hanging cloth that can be drawn to cover a window1.0 in a room0.s3, ... Japanese noun phrases by using Japanese definition sentences, in this paper we use their English translations for the explana- tion. In some sense, the essential point of our method is language-independent....

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... non-deterministic we will finish with a set of maximal consistent subsets. Each of these subsets can be converted directly into ALE terms using ALE's built -in predicate add_to/5. The re- sulting ... be identified as a parallel element. DSP indicate parallel elements in the source by means of underlines as shown in (16). An underlined ele- ment in the source is termed a 'primary occur- ... in press) we have been exploring computational issues for a discourse level grammar by using the ALE sy- stem (Carpenter 1993) to implement a discourse grammar. Our central model of a discourse...

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... exam- ple, in (1) in Contexts 1 and 2, I infers the bill is bad for big business. Consider again discourse (1) in Context 1. Intu- itively, the reason we can infer Result(a, fl) in the anal- ... Reasoning, in Proceedings to the 12th Interna- tional Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Syd- ney Australia, August 1991. Asher, Nicholas and Singh, Munindar (1993) A Logic of Intentions ... during discourse processing, this is only a small part of the story. Though DICE has used domain specific information to infer discourse relations, the rules relate domain structure to discourse...

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... parsing procedure. Complex noun sequences. Semantic patterns in complex noun phrases fall into two types: part names and other noun phrases. Names for pieces of equipment often con- tain ... bracket complex noun phrases. This is the subject of the next section. HI SEMANTIC PATTERNS IN COMPLEX NOUN SEQUENCES Noun phrases in the equipment failure messages typ- ically include numerous ... tences in the medical domain were analyzed and 123 in the Navy domain. The statistics are presented in Tables 1 and 2. In particular, there were significantly more noun modifiers of nouns...

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... CLUES IN DISCOURSE PROCESSING Nan Decker 1834 Chase Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45223, USA ABSTRACT The desirability of a syntactic parsing com- ponent in natural language understanding systems ... each story were included in the corpus in order to allow a greater samplin~ of reports. The discourse principles at work are fairly represented in an excerpt o ~ this length. The input to the ... new, minor episode is intro- duced by the double container in sentence 5. This kind of structure has a verb from the small class (e.g. precede, follow, result in) which may take a nominalization...

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... discussion). In 8 of the remaining cases, the brackets were internal to an em- bedded constituent and were, therefore, irrelevant. 3 further examples contained point numbering or marking (i.e. ... coordinator N1 conjunct, with coordinator N2 conjunct, no coordinator N2 conjunct, with coordinator N conjunct, no coordinator N conjunct, with coordinator and coordination of N or coordination ... books Partitive, singular - each of the books Possessive NP in specifier position - the man's book Pronouns Wh pronouns Pronouns in partitives Quantifying adj. in specifier position...

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... New information is generally introduced later in the clause , using noun- headed phrases( usually indefinite in form). Due to my view, the frequency of noun- headed phrases should be higher in object ... roles in the text. Excluding indefinite pronouns and wh-pronouns, pronouns can substitute full noun phrases when the referent is very clear in the situation or the surrounding text. Moreover pronouns ... compatible with the information principle. Moreover, they think the use of pronoun-headed noun phrases and noun- headed phrases are different in the type of text. They think in conversation pronouns tend...

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... factors indicating genericity in combination and in context. 4.2 Feature set and feature classes In Table 2 we give basic information about the individual features we investigate for identifying generic ... generic (kind-referring, class-denoting) inter- pretation of the NP or the characterising interpre- tation of the sentence predicate. Both sources may concur in a single sentence, as illustrated in ... distinguish between information pertain- ing to individuals vs. classes. We will argue that the automatic identification of generic expressions should be cast as a machine learning problem in- stead...

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