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Term transliteration addresses the problem of converting terms in one language into their phonetic equivalents in the other language via spoken form. It is especially concerned with proper nouns, such as personal names, place names and organization names. Pronunciation variation refers to pronunciation ambiguity frequently encountered in spoken language, which …...

Effects of mora phonemes on Japanese word accent was analyzed statistically, utilizing a set of about 124,000 frequently used common nouns derived from the Japanese Word Dictionary edited by EDR (the Japan Electronic Dictionary Research Institute, Ltd., Japan). In this analysis, Japanese syllable was defined as preceding consonant (+semi-vowel) +following …...

This paper gives a contrastive analysis of function verbs in English and Japanese, cut and kiru in the framework of the Generative Lexicon (Pustejovsky 1995). Despite their division sense, these two express performance of an event when they take constituents which denote eventuality. They differ, however, in the resulting event …...

This study attempts to account for the argument-adjunct asymmetry of Sluicing in Mandarin Chinese. Such an asymmetry is empirically demonstrated by a language-particular phenomenon, so-called shi-support, which is also the last resort (Chomsky, 1995a) of our linguistic mechanism. In the current related literature, shi-support is obligatory for wh-arguments but optional …...

This paper investigates the systematic relatedness between the concessive –to (or mo)-marked polarity phenomenon and the high tone –nun (or wa)-marked Contrastive Topic phenomenon with respect to underlying concessivity and thereby derived scalarity. I also investigate the scalar features of the exhaustivity focus marker –man (or dake) in inherently scalar …...

This paper reports a preliminary result on automatic grammar induction based on the frame- work of Brill and Markus (1992) and binary-branching syntactic parsing of Esperanto and SaiSiyat (a Formosan language). Automatic grammar induction requires large corpus and is found implausible to process endangered minor languages. Syntactic parsing, on the …...

Thai romanization is the way to write Thai language using roman alphabets. It could be performed on the basis of orthographic form (transliteration) or pronunciation (transcription) or both. As a result, many systems of romanization are in use. The Royal Institute has established the standard by proposing the principle of …...

This paper proposes a method of extracting English multi-word named entities and their Japanese equivalents from a parallel corpus. The aim of our research is to extract multi-word named entities which are not listed in a dictionary of an English-to-Japanese MT system and appear infrequently in a parallel corpus. Our …...

This paper addresses the problem of compound word translation and proposes the approaches to acquiring translations. The proposed approaches focus on exploring web data and utilizing English translations to link words of the source language and the correspondences in the target language. The paper uses Japanese-Chinese language pairs for the …...

There is a wide range of English reading materials for EFL (English as a foreign language) learners. However, it is difficult for teachers to select appropriate materials to construct course- ware that can be used for an English course. We propose a method for constructing courseware from a target vocabulary …...

We are attempting to model travel route choice behaviour with language to describe the thinking process of travelers because words can directly and clearly reflect their psychological states from a bottom-up viewpoint. This paper shows a method that extracts impressions and feelings, i.e., cognition results of travel routes, out of …...

This paper explores the interaction between conceptual structure and morpho-syntax. In particular, we show that ontology-based conceptual classification can be used to predict internal relations in compounds. We propose an ontology-based approach to predict the semantic relation between the two component words in Mandarin VV compounds. A Mandarin VV compound …...

During the process of unknown word detection in Chinese word segmentation, many detected word candidates are invalid. These false unknown word candidates deteriorate the overall segmentation accuracy, as it will affect the segmentation accuracy of known words. Therefore, we propose to eliminate as many invalid word candidates as possible by …...

In this paper, we propose a new method for effectively acquiring bilingual knowledge by ex- ploiting the dependency relations among the aligned chunks and words. We use a monolingual dependency parser to automatically obtain dependency parses of target language using chunk and word alignment. For reducing the computational complexity of …...

We present two methods for automatically discovering the telic and agentive roles of nouns from corpus data. These relations form part of the qualia structure assumed in generative lexi- con theory, where the telic role represents a typical purpose of the entity and the agentive role represents the origin of …...

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is the task of choosing the right sense of an ambiguous word given a context. Using Naive Bayesian (NB) classifiers is known as one of the best methods for supervised approaches for WSD (Mooney, 1996; Pedersen, 2000), and this model usually uses only a topic context …...

This paper is concerned with how topic/focus articulation should be optimally integrated into Japanese grammar. Based on Engdahl and Vallduv´ı’s (1996) Information Structure, we pro- pose an analysis with the following characteristics: (i) information structure is an integral part of Japanese grammar and interacts in principled ways with both syntax …...

This paper examines the syntactic and semantic properties of a set of nouns recently called "Relational Nouns" like mother, neighbor, etc. Relational nouns denote relations between individuals, rather than sets of individuals regular nouns denote, and are referentially dependent on individual-denoting expressions. In Japanese relational nouns may appear 'bare' with …...

In this paper I will shed new light on the semantics of Japanese tense-aspect markers ta and teiru from dynamic semantics and contrastive perspectives. The focus of investigation will be on the essential difference between ta and teiru used in an aspectual sense related to a perfect. I analyze the …...

Concord adverbial constructions in Korean show unbounded dependency relationships between two non-empty entities. There are two different types of unboundedness involved: one between a concord adverbial and a verbal ending and the other between the adverbial as a modifier and a predicate. In addition, these unboundedness relationships exhibit properties of …...