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. This paper investigates some important constraints on the licensing of nominals in the so-called Multiple Nominative Constructions (MNCs) in Korean from a mereological point of view, proposing a semantic relation hierarchy. The main idea advanced in this paper is that MNCs are cyclically formed only when the relationship between …...

. In this paper, we propose a method for anaphora resolution in speech under- standing for a livelihood support robot. For robust speech recognition, we combine two types of speech recognizers; a large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer (LVCSR) and domain-specific speech recognizers (DSSR). One problem in the anaphora resolution is …...

s using Lexical Association⋆ Jonathon Read, Jonathan Webster, and Alex Chengyu Fang The Dialogue Systems Group Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics City University of Hong Kong Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong {jlread,ctjlw,acfang}@cityu.edu.hk Abstract. The task of text classification is the assignment of labels that describe texts’ char- acteristics, …...

. In this paper we will consider how the choice between the topic marker wa and nominative marker for subjects affects truth conditions of sentences. We derive the proper interpretations for sentences with topics and nominative subjects in terms of syntax- semantics interface. The categorial framework adopted here allows us …...

. This paper describes efforts to develop an online repository of Indonesian corpora –and its associated functions and services– that has been designed to support a wide variety of use cases and applications. Two design considerations are ensuring sustainability and accessibility of the corpora, and enabling open enrichment through annotation. …...

. Information Extraction (IE) is becoming increasingly useful, but it is a costly task to discover and annotate novel events, event arguments, and event types. We exploit both monolingual texts and bilingual sentence-aligned parallel texts to cluster event triggers and discover novel event types. We then generate event argument annotations …...

. This paper proposes eSpaceML as a representation scheme for annotating event- driven spatial expressions in natural language. It adopts SpatialML (MITRE, 2009) and ISO-Space (ISO, 2010) as a basis for the development of a novel, distributed spatial annotation scheme. SpatialML focuses on the annotation of spatial locations and their …...

. Acceptability of case ellipsis on focused subjects and objects exhibits clear asymmetry which so far has not received a plausible explanation. Case ellipsis on focused direct objects occurs naturally, whereas case ellipsis on focused transitive subjects is unnatural whether the subject is contrastively focused or not. The main purpose …...

. It has been known that the syllable structures in Korean are different from those in English. The goal of this paper is to provide computational implementations for Korean syllable structures in the typed feature structure formalism. The system that we adopted in this paper is the Linguistic Knowledge Building …...

. Recently J. Lee (2010) made the distinction clear about the evidential –te in Korean between inferential evidential reading with PAST and direct evidential reading with PRES in tense. She offers a modal analysis of this typologically interesting evidential. I argue here that this evidential category, though with some modal …...

. The flexibility of Korean NP structures has been well-observed, but there have been few attempts to provide precise syntactic structures. This paper first reviews the basic distributional properties of Korean prenominal expressions as well as constraints in ordering, and then sketches a constraint-based, lexicalist analysis for Korean NP structures. …...

. We describe an implementation of morphology, development of a corpus and building of a lexicon for Punjabi language. Such resources are building blocks for various language technology tasks ranging from part of speech tagging to machine translation. Their importance is further increased by the fact that Punjabi is an …...

. In this paper, we propose a new linguistic approach for sentiment analysis of Korean. In order to overcome shortcomings of previous works confined to statistical methods, we make effective use of various linguistic features reflecting the nature of Korean such as contextual intensifiers, contextual shifters, modal affixes, and the …...

. This paper discusses a computational model of language generation, based on work in Phase Theory, that attempts to shed light on how the human mind generates sentences. This model presents explicit algorithms that a) determine selection and merger of Lexical Items, b) determine the labels of Merged elements, c) …...

. In this paper, we report a multiobjective optimization (MOO) based technique to select the appropriate subset of votes per classifier in an ensemble system. We hypothesize that the reliability of prediction of each classifier differs among the various output classes. Thus, it is necessary to find out the subset …...

. The distribution and use of the Japanese particle yo is examined using a large annotated sentiment corpus. The data is shown to support a decision-theoretic account of yo’s meaning (Davis, 2009). A decision-theoretic approach to the analysis of sentiment corpora is proposed, by which empirical predictions of decision-theoretic formal …...

. The present work deals with the extraction of emotional expressions and tagging of English blog sentences with Ekman’s six basic emotion tags and any of the three intensities: low, medium and high. Baseline system is developed based on WordNet Affect lists and dependency relations. Support Vector Machine (SVM) based …...

. We propose the use of fine-grained part-of-speech (POS) tags as discriminatory attributes for automatic genre classification and report empirical results from an experiment that indicate substantial accuracy gain by such features over the conventional bag-of-words approach through word unigrams. In particular, this paper reports our research to investigate the …...

. This paper argues for the existence of a deeper and more primitive structural unit of syntax and morphology than the constituent. Data from ellipsis, idiom formation, predicate complexes, bracketing paradoxes, and multiple auxiliary constructions challenge constituency-based analyses. In chain-based dependency grammar, however, constituents are seen as complete components. Components …...

: In this article, we show how grammar can account for Benglish verbs, a particular type of complex predicate, which are constituted of an English word and a Bengali verb (e.g. /EksiDenT kOra/ ‘to have an accident’, /in kOra/ ‘to get/come/put in’ or /kOnfuz kOra/ ‘to confuse’). We analyze these …...