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We describe the Dutch word sense disambigua- tion data submitted to SENSEVAL-2, and give preliminary results on the data using a WSD system based on memory-based learning and statistical keyword selection. 1...

SENSEV AL-2: The Second International Workshop on Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Systems was held on July 5-6, 2001. This paper gives an overview of SENSEV AL-2, discussing the evaluation exercise, the tasks, the scoring system, and the results. It ends with some recommendations for future evaluation exercises. 1...

In this paper we describe the Senseval 2 Basque lexical-sample task. The task comprised 40 words (15 nouns, 15 verbs and 10 adjectives) selected from Euskal Hiztegia, the main Basque dictionary. Most examples were taken from the Egunkaria newspaper. The method used to hand-tag the examples produced low inter-tagger agreement …...

AbstractWeighted automata and transducers are used in a variety of applications ranging from automatic speech recognition and synthesis to computational biology. They give a unifying framework for the representation of the components of complex systems. This provides opportunities for the application of general optimization algorithms such as determinization, epsilon-removal and …...

This paper proposes that the argument structures be stated in a way that uses probabilities derived from a corpus to replace a Boolean-value system of subcategorization. To do this, we make a cognitive model from a situation to an utterance to explain the phenomena of arguments' ellipsis, though the traditional …...

The left-associative grammar model (LAG) has been applied successfully to the mor- phologic and syntactic analysis of various european and asian languages. The algebraic definition of the LAG is very well suited for the application to natural language pro- cessing as it inherently obeys de Saussure's second law (de Saussure, …...

Korean government has adopted the French TGV as a high-speed transportation system and the first service is scheduled at the end of 2003. TGV-relevant documents are consisted of huge volumes, of which over than 76% has been translated in English. A large part of the English version is, however, incomprehensible …...

I argue that the so-called psychological predicates like komapta 'thankful,' mwusepta 'fearful,' silhta `loathsome,' or kulipta 'missing' require a nominative subject and a locative or dative complement, challenging the claim, a conventional wisdom originated from Kuno(1973), that they are two-place "transitive adjectives" requiring a nominative direct object. I also show …...

Shi (2000) claims that topics must be related to a syntactic position in the comment, thus denying the existence of dangling topics in Chinese. Under Shi's analysis, the dangling topic sentences in Chinese are not topic-comment but subject-predicate sentences. However, Shi's arguments are not without problems. In this paper we …...

This paper presents a unified account of three kinds of constructions in which more than one NP can show up with the same case in simple sentences in Japanese and Korean: double subject, double nominative object and double accusative constructions. Noting that the second NPs in these constructions are functional …...

This paper discusses constraints on grammaticalization, a primarily diachronic process through which lexical elements take on grammatical functions. In particular, it will argue that two constraints on this process, namely Persistence and Layering, explain the different distributional patterns of time-relationship adverbs in Japanese, Korean, English and German. Furthermore, it will …...

This paper provides computational algorithms for a Korean reflexive caki, for which both sentence-bound and long-distance readings are possible. Its analyses are based on Chierichia's theory in Categorial Grammar, and a CCG-like system is introduced for the implementation. In this system, we can get both readings of caki with the …...

Since thesaurus is used as a knowledge resource in many natural language processing systems, it is very useful and necessary for the high quality systems, especially for dealing with semantics. In this paper, we introduce a semi-automatic method for the construction of Korean noun semantic hierarchy by utilizing a monolingual …...

This paper aims to account for the backward anaphora that seem to be against the c-command requirements in the anaphor-antecedent relations. It was claimed that the binding conditions should apply at LF for the backward binding cases involving phych-verbs and causatives. Under the recent development of minimalism where the concept …...

A system to assist call routing task for telephone operators at the Directorate General of Telecommunications (DGT) in Taiwan is reported in this paper. The system was developed based on DGT organization profile with description of its six divisions instead of a corpus of recorded and transcribed call-routing dialogs. An …...

I examine various controversial aspects of Chinese prosody–tone structure, syllable structure, stress, and intonation–and stress the need to view all of these as interacting systems, aspects of a hierarchical prosodic structure. I examine various proposals at these various levels of the hierarchy and suggest which are most appropriate. Specifically, I …...

The issues in polysemy with respect to the verbs in WordNet will be discussed in this paper. The hypernymy/hyponymy structure of the multiple senses is observed when we try to build a bilingual network for Chinese and English. There are several types of polysemic patterns and a co-hypernym may have …...

We propose an algorithm for the automatic acquisition of a bilingual lexicon in the legal domain. We make use of a parallel corpus of bilingual court judgments, aligned to the sentence level, and analyse the bilingual context profiles to extract corresponding legal terms in both languages. Our method is different …...

This paper investigates the internal structure of finite small clauses (FSC). I will propose that a FSC is base-generated at Spec-CP and a null operator is involved to check the formal features of the embedded T and turn a sentence into a predicate. 1....

In this paper, we propose a method of generating a proper categorization of morphemes by giving a hierarchical part-of-speech system and a corpus tagged using this part-of- speech system. Our method use hierarchical information in the part-of-speech system and statistical information in the corpus to generate a category set. The …...