semantics of dimensional adjectives

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 00:20

... methods and design of the study. Chapter II introduces an overview of English adjectives with the definitions of adjectives 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 of adjectives 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...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2013, 14:46

... FORMATION OF COMPOUND ADJECTIVES (A Supplement to English 10 & English 12) Tính từ kép (Compound Adjectives) trong tiếng Anh có cấu trúc sau: Tính...

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... 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 semantics of 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...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 20:20

... hypotheses of latent vectors for the definition of bank#n#1 2 Learning Latent Semantics of 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 semantics of sense definitions. 6 Conclusions We construct a sense similarity wmfvec from the la- tent semantics of 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...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 19:20

... representation of physical objects from the two-level semantics of 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...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 21:20

... duration of each of these actions. 65 Defining the Semantics of 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 semantics of those modifiers....

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 05:20

... 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,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 21:20

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... 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 semantics of 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...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 19:21

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... 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...

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