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. This paper illustrates the idea of parallel distributed parsing (PDP), which allows us to integrate lexical and sublexical analyses. PDP is proposed for providing a new model of efficient, information-rich parses that can remedy the data sparseness problem. 1...

. Temporal information extraction is an interesting research area in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Here, the main task involves identification of the different relations between various events and time expressions in a document. The relations are then classified into some predefined categories like BEFORE, AFTER, OVERLAP, BEFORE-OR-OVERLAP, OVERLAP-OR-AFTER and VAGUE. …...

. The so-called serial verb construction (SVC) is a complex predicate structure consisting of two or more verbal heads but denotes one single event. This paper first dis- cusses the grammatical properties of Korean SVCs and provides a lexicalist, construction- based analysis couched upon a typed-feature structure grammar. We also …...

. Japanese books are usually classified into ten genres by Nippon Decimal Classification (NDC) based on their subject. However, this classification is sometimes insufficient for corpus studies which describe characteristics of the texts in the book. Here, we propose a method of classifying text samples taken from Japanese books into …...

. This paper presents and analyzes the KOLON System, created to facilitate Ko- rean Natural Language Processing (KNLP) and to improve experimental results through the KOLON Ontology. It is currently under development at our Computational Linguistics Labo- ratory, and is based on previous works, namely the Mikrokosmos Ontology and 21st …...

. This paper presents an analysis of the language of patents, as a contribution to the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). While there work appears to fill a niche in the ESP field (and particularly in the English for Occupational Legal Purposes), the present study insists that statistical …...

. This paper takes Chinese five-syllable compounds as examples to re-examine the derivation of Chinese synthetic compounds. With phonological evidences which show that Chinese synthetic compounds are left stressed, the paper proves that Chinese synthetic compounds are derived in the interface of lexicon and syntax, based on argument structures of …...

. In this study, we propose to use two corpus-based linguistic approaches for a sense prediction study. We will concentrate on the character similarity clustering approach and concept similarity clustering approach to predict the senses of non-assigned words by using corpora and tools, such as Chinese Gigaword Corpus, and HowNet. …...

. This paper describes the rationale and design of an XML-TEI encoded corpora compatible analysis platform for text mining called TXM. The design of this platform is based on a synthesis of the best available algorithms in existing textometry software. It also relies on identifying the most relevant open-source technologies …...

. Although several recent studies have shown that alignment quality is a poor in- dicator of the resulting translation quality, the word alignment models currently considered to be default (the so-called IBM models and HMM-based alignment) have been evaluated using the alignment error rate. We argue that from a machine …...

. Thirty four Russian speaking adults were tested for their comprehension of four complex adverbial sentence types expressing the temporal order of events. Three hypotheses put forward in the literature and tested in English state respectively that: (i) adverbial clause placement, (ii) conjunction choice, and (iii) order of mention effect …...

. Five years ago, a number of papers reported an experimental implementation of an Example Based Machine Translation (EBMT) system using proportional analogy. This approach, a type of analogical learning, was attractive because of its simplicity; and the paper reported considerable success with the method using various language pairs. In …...

. We introduce a method for learning to find the representative syntax-based context of a given collocation/phrase. In our approach, grammatical patterns are extracted for query terms aimed at accelerating lexicographers’ and language learners’ navigation through the word usage and learning process. The method involves automatically lemmatizing, part-of-speech tagging and …...

. Most languages have some expressions to refer to family members (e.g., those referring to ‘father,’ ‘brother,’ ‘uncle,’ etc.). In this paper, we will provide an analysis of Japanese and Chinese kinship terms, under a framework whose representational system has an ontological nature. It will be shown that this framework …...

. In this paper we propose an approach for automatic construction of concept hier- archies from the snippets returned by Internet search engines using a number of well known techniques. We use surface lexical patterns to construct a set of candidate hypernyms of a given term and additional filtering that …...

. Two problems related to the analysis of noun phrases in which demonstratives oc- cur are discussed: (1) it is shown that there exists an infinite number of syntactically complex demonstrative noun phrases and thus an infinite number of noun phrases which are neither purely referential not purely quantificational, (2) …...

. This paper presents the Fault-Tolerant Learning approach for term extraction. The approach extracts terms using automatically generated seeds instead of prior domain knowledge or annotated corpora. Thus it is applicable to any domain specific corpus and it is especially useful for resource-limited domains. Two classifiers are separately trained for …...

. This paper presents an event semantics-based investigation of Japanese complex predicates of the form V1+V2, to clarify their syntactic and semantic constitution. The Japanese V1+V2 formation primarily exploits the aspectual modification of a core event; of particular interest here are complex predicates composed of intentional active verbs with te-form …...

. Unsupervised sentiment classification usually needs a user defined sentiment dic- tionary. However, the existing dictionaries in Chinese are insufficient, for example, the inter- section rate of two popular Chinese sentiment dictionaries HowNet and NTUSD is less than 10%. In this paper, we present a method to help expand the …...

. This paper shows that there are some syntactic and semantic discrepancies among three seemingly semantically equivalent verbs denoting one of the most basic actions in any language, i.e. the verbs meaning ‘kill’ in English, Chinese and Thai. Specifically, it examines the possibility of these verbs to appear in two …...