... disappearance of only one species can cause dramatic changes in the planet and even death of many other living creatures. For example, the disappearance of bats will cause the huge increasing of insect ... example is that if the population of bats increases, the population of insects will decrease significantly, and this will cause the disappearance of many plants because insects are the main pollinators. ... child. Of cause, someone can say that there are plenty of different recourses of information such as books and teachers. But, I think, in our modern world children must learn faster and use all...
... ContributorsBas Aarts is Professor ofEnglish Linguistics and Director of the Survey of English Usage at University College London. His publications include Smallclauses in English: the nonverbal ... many articles inbooks and journals. With David Denison and Richard Hogg he is one of thefounding editors of the journal English Language and Linguistics.D. J. Allerton is Emeritus Professor of ... Huddlestonwhich produced the Cambridge grammar of the English language (CambridgeUniversity Press, 2002).Ilse Depraetere is Professor ofEnglish at the University of Lille III. She hasalso worked at...
... for the Identification of English BaseNPEndong XunMicrosoft Research ChinaNo. 49 Zhichun Road Haidian District100080, China,i-edxun@microsoft.comMing ZhouMicrosoft Research ChinaNo. 49 ... paper presents a novel statisticalmodel for automatic identification of English baseNP. It uses two steps: the N-best Part -Of- Speech (POS) tagging andbaseNP identification given the N-bestPOS-sequences. ... of ourstatistical model on various size of the trainingdata, x-coordinate denotes the size of thetraining set, where "1" indicates that the trainingset is from section 0-8th of...
... subsequences of words in a sentence that are subject to the phenomenon. Doing so will enable analysis of the syntax and semantics ofEnglish metalanguage. 3.1 Approach The article set ofEnglish ... thoroughly, and he used the terms “baptize” and “Athanasian.”8 They use Kabuki precisely because they and everyone else have only a hazy idea of the word’s true meaning, and they can use it purely ... S': copy S and replace the occurrence of X with X'. (3) Create W: the set of truth conditions of S. (4) Create W': the set of truth conditions of S', assuming that X' in...
... simple tabulation of fre- quencies of certain words participating in certain configurations, for example of frequencies of pairs of a transitive main verb and the head noun of its direct object, ... occurrences of each pair in the training set were deleted. The resulting training set was used to build a sequence of cluster models as before. Each model was used to decide which of two verbs ... of 756721 pairs and a test set of 81240 pairs. Relative Entropy Figure 3 plots the unweighted average relative en- tropy, in bits, of several test sets to asymmet- ric clustered models of...
... grammatical analysis of a sentence can be thought of as a parsing of the words constituting the sentence. A word of warning is necessary about the odd nature of examples in the field of ambiguity ... basis of a system of analytic rules, through they never in fact constructed such a system. The criterion suggested here would only be one of degree (in terms of the number of applications of ... Analysis ofEnglish Texts* by Yorick Wilks, Pembroke College, Cambridge This paper describes the useof an on-line system to do word-sense am- biguity resolution and content analysis of English...
... under study. ENGLISH ARTICLES IN RUSSIAN -ENGLISH 3 [Mechanical Translation, vol. 8, No. 1, August 1964] Preliminary Report on the Insertion ofEnglishArticles in Russian- English MT Output* ... features. One of the most discussed problems in the automatic translation of Russian documents into English is the insertion ofEnglisharticles in the output. Approaches to the solution of this ... programs in use by the different teams engaged in this work. Most projects, however, either use statistical criteria in the determination ofEnglisharticles to the exclusion of all other...
... it's really taken off.My favourite poem has been ___________ to music and sounds beautiful as a song.Page 5 of 5End of examTotal /40 Senior 9 – Term 3Name:__________ UseofEnglish and ReadingClass:__________ ... caused by great masses of air rising and mixing, for the atmosphere is never still. Some of the motion is (10)__________ the fact that the envelope of gases rests on a spinning globe; because ... Millions of people like (21)…………… and property owners depend on the tourist industry for their livelihood. A decrease in the popularity of tourism would be nothing short of (22)……………… .Page 2 of...