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ECM across a CP in Korean poses difficulties from the standpoint of the locality of A-movement/agreement. A phase-based analysis is developed which requires two steps: (i) in the embedded CP, VP/vP containing its VP-internal subject first moves to Spec-CP, which renders the subject accessible to the matrix v, in accordance …...

In this paper it has been proposed that concession should be analysed as involving scalar implicatures and that an alternative set of situations have to be assumed to account for the the relative nature of likelihood of event occurrence. This paper also claims that the notion of likelihood is the …...

A homonym could be disambiguated by another words in the context as nouns, predicates used with the homonym. This paper using semantic information (co-occurrence data) obtained from definitions of part of speech (POS) tagged UMRD-S 1). In this research, we have analyzed the result of an experiment on a homonym …...

This paper describes our ongoing Korean-Chinese machine translation system, which is based on verb patterns. A verb pattern consists of a source language pattern part for analysis and a target language pattern part for generation. Knowledge description on lexical level makes it easy to achieve accurate analyses and natural, correct …...

Aligned parallel corpora have proved very useful in many natural language processing tasks, including statistical machine translation and word sense disambiguation. In this paper, we describe an alignment technique for extracting transfer mapping from the parallel corpus. During building our system and data collection, we observe that there are three …...

The so-called overapplication of Coda Neutralization in Korean, the occurrence of a neutralized consonant in a non-neutralizing environment, is often considered as evidence for serial derivation. In this paper I propose that the neutralization effect at surface is not a result of a phonological process at an intermediate level in …...

This paper compares secondary predication constructions such as small clause complements, resultatives, and depictives in English and Korean. It argues that these two typologically different languages employ different modes of satisfying the Case Filter with regard to the Case of the subjects of small clauses. More specifically, it is argued …...

This paper aims to give an explanation of the combination of certain nouns and the verb ha- 'do'. Although the verb ha- 'do' normally takes an event type argument, it takes some substantival nouns such as paiolin 'violin', umsikcem 'restaurant', and so on. A substantival noun undergoes type shifting, because …...

Structural analysis of compound words is necessary and an important process in natural lan- guage processing. Proposed here is a corpus- and statistics- based method for the structural analysis of compound words in Japanese. We determine the structure of a compound word by using Internet corpus and calculating the strength …...

This paper discusses issues in building a 54-thousand-word Korean Treebank using a phrase structure annotation, along with developing annotation guidelines based on the morpho-syntactic phenomena represented in the corpus. Various methods that were employed for quality control and the evaluation on the Treebank are also presented. 1...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the lexical-semantic structure of morphologically derived passive verbs in Korean based on Pustejovsky (1995)'s Generative Lexicon Theory (GL) and to explain the change of the root verb's lexical-semantic structure by means of passivization. Passivization in this paper is defined as the unaccusaztivization. …...

The information extraction is to delimit in advance, as part of the specification of the task, the semantic range of the output and to filter information from large volumes of texts. The most representative word of the document is composed of named entities and pronouns. Therefore, it is important to …...

Automatic identification of Chinese personal names in unrestricted texts is a key task in Chinese word segmentation, and can affect other NLP tasks such as word segmentation and information retrieval, if it is not properly addressed. This paper (1) demonstrates the problems of Chinese personal name identification in some IT …...

As part of a long-ranged project that aims at establishing database- theoretic semantics as a model of computational semantics, this presentation focuses on the development of a syntactic component for processeing strings of words or sentences to construct semantic data structures. For design and modeling purposes, the present treatment will …...

SENSEVAL-2 was held in Spring, 2001. It con- sisted of several tasks in various languages. In this paper, we describe our system used for one of these tasks: the Japanese translation task. With an accuracy of 63.4%, our system was the third best system in the contest among nine sys- …...

We present WASP-Bench: a novel approach to Word Sense Disambiguation, also providing a semi-automatic environment for a lexicographer to compose dictionary entries based on corpus evidence. For WSD, involving lexicographers tackles the twin obstacles to high accuracy: paucity of training data and insufficiently ex- plicit dictionaries. For lexicographers, the com- …...

The classification information model or CIM classi- fies instances by considering the discrimination abil- ity of their features, which was proven to be useful for word sense disambiguation at SENSEVAL-1. But the CIM has a problem of information loss. KUNLP system at SENSEVAL-2 uses a modified version of the CIM …...

We describe a simple word sense disambiguation system equipped with the Kennedy and Bogu- raev (1996) anaphora resolution algorithm, evaluated on the SENSEVAL-2 English all-words task. The system relies on the structure of the WordNet hierarchy to pick optimal senses for nouns in the text. Since anaphoric refer- ences are …...

We seek a knowledge-free method for inducing multiword units from text corpora for use as machine-readable dictionary headwords. We provide two major evaluations of nine existing collocation-finders and illustrate the continuing need for improvement. We use Latent Semantic Analysis to make modest gains in performance, but we show the significant …...

We are developing corpus-based techniques for iden- tifying semantic relations at an intermediate level of description (more specific than those used in case frames, but more general than those used in tra- ditional knowledge representation systems). In this paper we describe a classification algorithm for iden- tifying relationships between two-word …...