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FCIDB (Friendly Chinese Interface for DataBase management systems) can understand users' queries in the Chinese language. It works like a translator that translates Chinese queries into SQL commands. In the translation process, the lexicon of FCIDB plays a key role in both parsing and word segmentation. We designed some questionnaires …...

The purpose of this study is to develop one solution to the speech inverse filtering problem. A new efficient articulatory speech analysis scheme, identifying the articulatory parameters from the acoustic speech waveforms, was induced. The algorithm is known as simulated annealing, which is constrained to avoid non-unique solutions and local …...

This paper aims to examine how the consonant clusters and illicit codas are modified in Mandarin loanwords transliterated from English, and to argue that no rules need to be involved and that a purely constraint-based approach—within the framework of Optimality Theory—can explain the data. The data collected from transliterated American …...

The purpose of this research is to identify scalable approaches that can handle large amount of training data such as several years of news articles, and automatically assign predefined category to Chinese free text documents. Our approach consists of the following processes: (i) term extraction, (ii) term selection, and (iii) …...

The lexical representation of the Chinese word ‘4A: has been an issue of on-going debate. The lexical form suggested by Her seemed to provide a complete representation of the different syntactic behaviours of `4ht.' within a Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) account. However, when applying this representa- tion in conjunction with the …...

Parsing of sentences based on Dependency Grammar is emulated with a constraint- and unification-based mechanism that preserves single-headedness and projectivity in syntactic dependency. Working on Chinese, and referring to English at times, the authors have treated subcategorization properties of verbs on the assumptions that relative positions of obligatory complements of …...

In this paper, I propose a japanese categorial grammar JCG which gives a foundation of semantic parsing of Japanese. JCG is not an orthodox categorial grammar with functional application, composition etc., but a hybrid system with HPSG based on term and sentence which correspond to the nominal head and verbal …...

This paper is concerned with a particular kind of Korean relative clause constructions that contain possessive specifier gaps, as opposed to complement or adjunct gaps. Those relative clauses have been known to violate Ross's Complex NP Constraint, and various attempts have been made to account for the apparent island violations. …...

Configurational approaches to weak crossover effects in Japanese and Korean have been proposed based on the notions such as c-command and reconstruction (e.g., [5], [25], and [26] among others). However, empirical problems arise from the approaches simply because they cannot fully account for the relevant Korean data. This paper proposes …...

This paper argues that wh-in situ is interpreted in its original position. Focusing on the ambiguity of how many sentences, it shows that the semantic behavior of wh in-situ can be explained without postulating LF (phrasal) movement. It is then pointed out that the fact that wh-phrases in situ lack …...

This paper discusses the discourse behavior of Chinese causal connectives yinwei "because- and suoyi "so" from the perspective of grammaticalization, and claims that the underlying motivation for such is coherence, which involves pragmatic and cognitive interpretation. We claim that the majority of yinwei and suoyi are used pragmatically, and they …...

In dialogue, speakers are engaged in various types of speech acts other than just those fre- quently encountered such as question, command, promise. The speaker often tries to make sure that his interlocutor has received the information that he is conveying, that his intentions are understood, and that his attitudes …...

Metonymy and metaphor reflect an important part of the way people ordinarily conceptualize of themselves, events, and everyday world [1]. We will argue for this position via the lexicalization process of two linguistic items in Chinese: shang and zai, and demonstrate that grammatical meaning develops from lexical meaning by a …...

This paper provides a uniform semantic framework for Topic-Comment Structures in Chinese. It is assumed that the topic element relates to an anaphor occuring in the comment. The comment which contains an unresolved anaphor is semantically underspecified. The semantic interpretation of topic-comment constructions results from the resolution of the anaphoric …...

In this paper we will explore the consistent contrast between VV-compounds and non-W- compounds across seven subgroups of verbs of emotion. The distinctive syntactic features for the contrast include the distribution of the grammatical functions, the cooccrrence restrictions with head nouns and head verbs, the compatibilities with the imperative and …...

This paper aims to show that semantic representation of verbs may require the inclusion of constructional inferences in addition to lexical specifications. By examining the transitive pattern of the Mandarin verb GAN (,y) 'rush' , we found that verbal semantics can only be adequately represented if constructionally coerced information is …...

This paper shows that the semantics of shenme 'what' exhibits a double quantification phenomenon in Chinese bare conditionals. I show that such double quantification can be nicely accounted for if one adopts Carlosn's semantics of bare plurals and verb meanings as well as the assumption that shenme 'what' may denote …...

In this paper we demonstrate that identifying the mappings between the source and target domains for a conceptual metaphor allows for both a greater understanding of the conceptual basis of metaphors, and more effective language translation. We first introduce and explain the Animal Metaphor to support our idea. We show …...

This paper discusses the relationship between the modifying clause and the modified noun in Japanese. In some cases the closeness between them is weaker than in the prototypical case, whereas in others the modification is actually impossible. Within the framework of Matsumoto [I], who applied Frame Semantics to Japanese clausal …...

This paper discusses distribution of the dative in Modern Icelandic. Similar to Latin, Modern Ice- landic exhibits occurrences of the possessive dative, i.e., the dative which marks the possessor of a noun. However, although Latin shows free occurrences of possessive datives, there is a syntactic re- striction imposed on the …...