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The aim of this research was to develop a flexible, high quality articulatory speech synthesis tool. One feature of this research tool is the simulated annealing optimization procedure that is used to optimize the vocal tract parameters to match a specified set of formant characteristics. Another aspect of this study …...

Object topicalization shares two functional properties with the passive: foregrounding of the patient and de-topicalization of the agent. This fact makes one wonder why the former occurs far less frequently in written text. The present paper is an attempt to illuminate some properties of object topicalization not shared by the …...

The resumption of sovereignty over Hong Kong by China and the implementation of legal bilingualism there have given rise to an urgent need for producing verbatim court records of proceedings conducted in Cantonese, the predominant Chinese dialect spoken by the majority of the population. This has created a challenge to …...

. It is generally agreed that different categories of adverbial clauses—temporal, conditional, and causal clauses may have their different performances of distribution and functions in different positions as preposed vs. postposed. According to Ford (1993 & 1994) and Wang (1996), temporal and conditional clauses in both English and Chinese tend …...

The present study investigates a type of metaphor involving socio-cultural values in their mapping and interpretation. The linguistic data are Japanese metaphorical expressions that conceptualize women as plants or animals. First, the typology of metaphor based on previous research is discussed, focusing on conceptual, correlation, and resemblance metaphors, followed by …...

We present a solution for the representation of Japanese honorificational information in the HPSG framework. Basically, there are three dimensions of honorification. We show that a treatment is necessary that involves both the syntactic and the contextual level of information. The Japanese grammar is part of a machine translation system. …...

Collocational deficiency is a pervasive phenomenon in learner English. Language learners often fail to choose the correct combination of two or more words due to their unawareness of collocational properties in vocabulary. They are apt to adopt lexical simplification strategies such as using a synonymous or Ll-influenced expression. This paper …...

In this paper, we propose a method for domain unconstrained language understanding based on the How-net knowledge base. The goal is to construct a system that reads in an article and answers some related questions. For each sentence in the article, word segmentation is first applied. Then, the major components …...

In Japanese potential and tough constructions, arguments standing in various semantic relations to a base verb can be marked with nominative case. Such subjects also may show up with genitive case in nominalizations irrespective of their semantic relations. This paper, addressing a variety of case alternations which have not hetherto …...

Combinatory Categorial Grammar is a lexicalised formalism which is mildly context-sensitive. Recently Set Combinatory Categorial Grammar, a direct descendent of Combinatory Categorial Grammar was proposed to treat local scrambling adequately. In this paper, we briefly sketch Set Combinatory Categorial Grammar analyses of various Korean syntactic phenomena including coordination, extraction and …...

Both Hausser [1] and Lee [2][3] proposed Database Semantics as a computational model for natural language semantics that makes use of a database management system, DBMS. As an extension of these efforts, this paper aims at dealing with ways of representing linguistic descriptions in table forms because all the data …...

The purpose of the paper is twofold. First, we revise the well-known Centering Theory of anaphora resolution and propose the Controlled Information Packaging Theory (CIPT, for short). Second, we suggest a solution to the resolution of the antecedents of pronouns within the framework of CIPT. For this purpose, we select …...

Since [5], 4-valued logic is known to be a useful tool to capture the human reasoning: it is paraconsistent, can treat incompleteness and inconsistency of information etc. In this paper, I propose a 4-valued reasoning system with stratified bilattices of [12]. It inherits desirable formal properties of 4-valued logic, and …...

This paper is trying to show that the concept of the prototypical transitive sentence is very useful in the study of transitivity, but is as such not so unproblematic as has often been assumed. This is achieved by presenting examples from different languages that show the weaknesses of the "traditional" …...

This paper discusses deletion and movement operations in Korean from the perspective of information packaging, and claims that each operation is a systematic process of information packaging to generate the most optimized information structure. This paper argues that there is neither free word order nor free deletion in Korean. This …...

The so-called multiple nominative constructions (MNC) have been one of the puzzling phe- nomena in topic-prominent languages like Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. This paper first investigates the basic syntactic properties of three MNCs and then provides a constraint-based analysis within the theory of HPSG (Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar). The analysis …...

One of the thorniest problems of large vocabulary continuous speech recognition systems is the large number of out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words. This is especially the case for the languages like Japanese, which has many inflections, compound words and loanwords. The OOV words vary with the application domains. It's not realistic to …...

The relationship between lexicon and pragmatics has been one of the most controversial issues in recent studies in linguistics. Lexicon in the conservative definition encodes only the information responsible for the regular syntactic mapping of lexical items. Any information that is not directly reflected in the syntactic structure is attributed …...

Lexicalist approaches to syntax can benefit from multidimensionality of representa- tion as exhibited by Ailohanan(1997). Subject and object honorific forms in Japanese are shown to be complex predicates with its second component grammaticalized and triggering argument-sharing of the two components of the predicate. Multidimensional representa- tion makes it possible to …...

This pape clarifies the definition of alignment from the viewpoint of linguistic similarity. We propose new method for the alignment betwee the languages that do not belong to the same language family. On the contrary to most of the previously proposed methods that rely heavily on statistics, our method attempts …...