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. The goal of this paper is to present the methodology of constructing a language ontology of ‘coherent relations’. We construct an ontology of more abstract concepts by combining an upper-level ontology and a middle-level ontology. At the former we use theoretical considerations following Sanders et al. (1992, 1993), and …...

. The present study explored the sensitivity to stress patterns of sixty-four ninth- graders learning to speak and read in Korean as a first language (L1) and English as a second language (L2) concurrently. Students’ productive stress processing abilities were assessed in reading Korean real words, English unfamiliar real words, …...

. The Applicative Combinatory Categorial Grammar (ACCG) is a new approach to Categorial Grammars by using exclusively the Combinatory Logic. This extended categorial grammar that was originally developed by J.-P. Desclés and I. Biskri, allows us to tackle the problem of the Korean language parsing in which there exist many …...

. It is well-known that an adjective is not a universal part of speech. As pointed out in the previous researches, many oceanic languages do not have a morphologically distinguished adjective class. The only criteria which distinguish adjectives from verbs and nouns could be whether they appear in comparative construction …...

. Metaphors are pervasive in human language and developing methods to recognize and deal with metaphors is an indispensable task in Natural Language Processing (NLP). This paper proposes an unsupervised method to recognize metaphors from real texts. Firstly, source domain candidates are determined based on automatically acquired selectional preferences. And …...

. Semantic symbols are essential components of Chinese characters. ShuoWenJieZi (Xyu Shen 121), the oldest dictionary of Chinese, is organized according to the radical forms as semantic symbols. Characters are classified according radicals, and their meanings cluster around the basic concept of the semantic symbol. We believe that ShuoWenJieZi radicals …...

. n-gram language modeling is a popular technique used to improve performance of various NLP applications. However, it still faces the “curse of dimensionality” issue wherein word sequences on which the model will be tested are likely to be different from those seen during training (Bengio et al., 2003). An …...

. This paper reports about a multi-engine approach for the development of a NER system in Bengali by combining the classifiers such as Maximum Entropy (ME), Conditional Random Field (CRF) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) with the help of weighted voting approach. The training set consists of approximately 272K wordforms, …...

. One of difficult issues in pattern-based machine translation system is maybe to find how to overcome the domain difference in adapting a system from one domain to other domain. This paper describes how we have resolved such barriers among domains as default target word of any domain, domain-specific patterns, …...

. When presented with an entity (e.g., a wooden honey-dipper) labeled with a novel noun, how does a listener know that the noun refers to an instance of an object kind (honey-dipper) rather than to a substance kind (wood)? While English speakers draw upon count-mass syntax for clues to the …...

This study attempted to determine the types of semantic change of the selected Cebuano words from the written texts, specifically the Bisaya magazine and spoken language of Cebuano speakers aged 15 – 40 years old living in Cebu province. Twenty (20) Cebuano words were analyzed using Campbell’s (1998) and Crowley’s …...

. Natural Language Generation (NLG) techniques can be applied in generating virtual documents dynamically using information from a database (Dale et al, 1999). One of the applications of NLG techniques to generate documents dynamically is the web-based interactive virtual museum, VIGAN. NLG is used to generate the descriptions of the …...

. As previous word adoption models, though proposing potential factors that influence the survival of neologisms, receive little empirical examination, this corpus-based study compares the performance of two such models by providing clear operational criteria for each factor in the models and, consequently, proposes a hybrid model that improves the …...

. This paper examines the relationship between two important arguments in core cosubordinate construction in Filipino: namely, controller found in the matrix core and the missing argument (controllee) in the linked core using the framework Role and Reference Grammar of Van Valin (2005). This paper has proved that there is …...

. This paper presents the design and algorithms of a morpho-semantic analyzer to parse the Japanese verb phrases of simple sentences. This parser aims to understand the whole semantics of verb phrases by parsing them into semantic units, and thus differs from existing morphological analyzers that primarily segment sentences into …...

. The current state of Philippine linguistic resources, which includes formal grammars, electronic dictionaries and corpora are not yet significant to address industrial- strength language technologies. This paper discusses a computational approach in automatically estimating constituent structures from a corpus using unsupervised probabilistic approaches. Two models are presented and results …...

. This paper describes work the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) is doing to contribute to a global infrastructure for the sustainability of language resources. After offering a definition of language resource, it addresses the issue of what makes language resources sustainable by defining six necessary and sufficient conditions for …...

. This paper is a contribution to text semantics processing and its application to advanced question-answering where a significant portion of a well-formed text is required as a response. We focus on procedural texts of various domains, and show how titles, instructions, instructional compounds and arguments can be extracted. Keywords: …...

. This paper describes the Institute for Infocomm Research (IIR) system for the 2007 Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE) conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The submitted system is a fusion of multiple state-of- the-art language classifiers using diversified discriminative language cues. We implemented several state-of-the-art algorithms …...

. This paper mirrors my invited talk at PACLIC-22. It describes a call for a renewed emphasis in work on the logical semantics of languages. It lists some of the computational components needed for symbolic interpretations of language, and of automated reasoning within those semantics. It details existing components that …...