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This research aims to integrate embodiment with generative lexicon. By analyzing the metaphorically used human body part terms in Sinica Corpus, the first balanced modern Chi- nese corpus, we reveal how these two theories complement each other. Embodiment strengthens generative lexicon by spelling out the cognitive reasons which underlies the …...

The main challenge of this paper is the syntactico-semantic enrichment of LMF normalized dictionaries. To meet this challenge, we propose an approach based on the content of these dictionaries, namely the “Context” fields and the syntactic and semantic knowledge. The proposed approach is composed of three phases. The first one …...

This paper describes a corpus-based contrastive study of collocation in English and Chinese. In light of the corpus-based approach to identify functionally equivalent units, the present paper attempts to identify the collocational translation equivalents of zunshou by using a parallel corpus and two comparable corpora. This study shows that more …...

 Korean is one of the well-known „pro-drop‟ languages. When translating Korean zero object into languages in which objects have to be overtly expressed, the resolution of zero object is crucial. This paper proposes a machine learning method to resolve Korean zero object. We proposed 8 linguistically motivated features for …...

This paper proposes a range of solutions to the challenges of extracting large and high- quality bilingual lexicons for low-resource language pairs. In such scenarios there is often no parallel or even comparable data available. We design three effective pivot- based approaches inspired by the state-of- the-art technique of bilingual …...

Language development in infants is a dynamic process that involves the emergence and increase of consciousness, with which built-in learning mechanisms make infants’ imitation and interaction with their surroundings become socially meaningful. Taking Gao & Holland’s (2008, 2013) statements of levels of consciousness for language development as the theoretical guideline, …...

A learner corpus is a useful resource for developing automatic assessment techniques for implementation in a computer-assisted language learning system. However, presently, learner corpora are only helpful in terms of evaluating the accuracy of learner output (speaking and writing). Therefore, the present study proposes a learner corpus annotated with evaluation …...

This study investigates the habitual expressions of metaphors in language and gesture and the collaboration of these two modalities in conveying metaphors. This study examined 247 metaphoric expressions in Mandarin conversations. The data includes 110 (44.5%) metaphors being conveyed concurrently by speech and gesture as well as 137 (55.5%) metaphors …...

This paper describes two experiments that explore the potential role of Chinese character writing on their visual recognition. Taken together, the results suggest that drawing Chinese characters privileges them in memory in a way that facilitates their subsequent visual recognition. This is true even when the congruency of the recognition …...

A novel graph-based utterance generation method for open-domain dialogue systems is proposed in this paper. After an association graph of words and utterance patterns from a dialogue corpus is constructed, a label propa- gation algorithm is used for generating system utterances from the words and utterance pat- terns in the …...

This paper explores the nature of linguistic synaesthesia in the auditory domain through a corpus-based lexical semantic study of near synonyms. It has been established that the near synonyms 聲 sheng “sound” and 音 yin “sound” in Mandarin Chinese have different semantic functions in representing auditory production and auditory perception …...

Feedback utterances are among the most fre- quent in dialogue. Feedback is also a crucial aspect of all linguistic theories that take social interaction involving language into account. However, determining communicative func- tions is a notoriously difficult task both for human interpreters and systems. It involves an interpretative process that …...

Building characters for dialogue agents is im- portant in making the agents more friendly and human-like. To build such characters, utterances suitable for the designated charac- ters are usually manually prepared. However, it is expensive to do this for a large num- ber of utterances for various types of char- …...

We present our ongoing work on large-scale Japanese-Chinese bilingual dictionary con- struction via pivot-based statistical machine translation. We utilize statistical significance pruning to control noisy translation pairs that are induced by pivoting. We construct a large dictionary which we manually verify to be of a high quality. We then use …...

Word segmentation is helpful in Chinese nat- ural language processing in many aspects. However it is showed that different word seg- mentation strategies do not affect the per- formance of Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) from English to Chinese significant- ly. In addition, it will cause some confu- sions in the …...

This paper contributes the first published evaluation of the quality of automatic translation between Khmer (the official language of Cambodia) and twenty other languages, in both directions. The ex- periments were carried out using three different statistical machine translation approaches: phrase-based, hierarchical phrase-based, and the operation sequence model (OSM). In …...

Although Multiple Subject Constructions in Korean have received significant attention in theoretical literature, few experimental investigations of various syntactic and semantic properties of these constructions have been conducted. In this study, we administered a Magnitude Estimation (ME) experiment in order to compare the acceptability of Multiple Subject and related Single …...

This paper explores the conditions where Mandarin RVCs can be preserved in their Cantonese counterparts. Six types of Mandarin RVCs – ergatives, unergatives, accusatives, causatives, pseudo-passives and object- fronting – have been examined. Modifications have been made for certain kinds of RVCs that are usually misclassified. The analysis has been …...

This paper took an experimental approach and examined island constraints in Korean. Among many island constraints, this study took a Complex NP island constraint, and the experiment was designed with 3 related factors: presence vs. absence of island, matrix clause vs. embedded clause, and scrambling. The analysis results illustrated that …...

A number of researchers claim that the derivation of the Right Dislocation Construction (RDC) involves movement (e.g., Chung, 2012, for Korean; Ott & de Vries, 2012, 2015, for Dutch and German; Tanaka, 2001 and Abe, 2004, for Japanese; Whitman, 2000, for English, Japanese, and Korean). However, the RDC in English …...