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TRW has developed a text search tool that allows users to enter a query in foreign lan- guages and retrieve documents that match the query. A single query can contain words and phrases in a mix of different languages, with the foreign-language terms entered using the native script. The browser …...

In this paper, we investigated the fuzzy statistics analysis in lexical semantics and apply the fuzzy logic to compute some uncertain and ambiguous problems. The fuzzy propositional computation for the cognitive semantics can account for the degree of typicality and similarity. Which provide a more precise expression in human thought …...

This paper attempts to provide a sketch of formalism for Contrastive Topic in Korean and English. Based on the idea that a discourse structure basically consists of question/answer pairs, the proposed formalism shows 1) Korean contrastive topic corresponds to a certain prosody in English and the information structure for contrastive …...

This paper examines paradoxes involving coronal specification. Although several phonological phenomena such as place assimilation, insertion and deletion argue for coronal underspecification, other facts like morpheme structure conditions demand coronal specification. This paper shows that this problem can be solved with the markedness hierarchy which ranks coronals low under Correspondence …...

This paper attempts to analyze some grammatical aspects of the so called internally-headed relative clause construction in Korean. This paper proposes that the meaning of the external head kes is underspecified in the sense that its semantic content is filled in by co-indexing it to the internal head under appropriate …...

The context and general technical strategy for MAHT and MT at ERLI is presented. After presenting the commercial context of translation, we outline the architecture of AlethTR, ERLI’s assisted-translation platform. Special attention is paid to the question of linguistic resources : general lexicon, terminology, translation memory. We consider briefly the …...

In order to extract rigid expressions with a high fre- quency of use, new algorithm that can efficiently extract both uninterrupted and interrupted collocations from very large corpora has been proposed. The statistical method recently proposed for calculating N-gram of m'bitrary N can be applied to the extraction of uninterrupted …...

The paper describes problems in dis- ambiguating the morphological analysis of Bantu languages by using Swahili as a test language. The main factors of ambiguity in this language group can be traced to the noun class structure on one hand and to the bi-directional word-formation on the other. In analyz- …...

This paper argues that the word order of adverbials can be captured only when the causal clauses are analyzed as focus. Previous studies on Chinese causal sentences usually treat the causal clauses on a par with other types of adverbial clauses. This means that they are considered as topics and …...

Clause Union Laws require causee nominals to assume the relation of direct object or indirect object depending on the transitivity of corresponding non-causative constructions (Perlmutter & Postal 1974) or in accordance with the language specific rules (Gibson & Raposo 1986) in forming causative constructions. However, the causee nominals in Korean …...

This paper argues that the traditional view that nouns refer only to classic individuals is inadequate. Instead, we argue that nouns are coerced by different types of classifiers to refer to kinds and events as well as to individuals. This finding is important because 1) the semantics of nouns involves …...

Semantic representations which are underspecified with respect to, for example, scope, have recently attracted much attention. Most research in this area has focused on treating English language phenomena in a theoretical fashion. Our paper deviates from this twofold: We take Japanese as the language of our in- vestigations and describe …...

A significant problem when translating Japanese dialogues into Ger- man is the missing information on number and definiteness in the Japanese analysis output. The integration of the search for such information into the transfer process provides an efficient solution. General transfer rules, prefer- ence rules and default rules are combined. …...

Previous analyses of (Korean) Light Verb Constructions (LVCs) have failed to provide objective criteria for defining LVCs. The verb ha- is inconsistently regarded as a Light Verb (LV) or as a "heavy verb" depending on its environment. In the face of this problem, I argue, firstly, that all ha-sentences should …...

In this paper, we show that configurational notions follow from inherent properties of informational concepts. First, we analyze the hidden complexity of the central family of configurational relations (command) from which all the others (government, proper government, etc.) are derived. We then examine the different types of grammatical information, their …...

We describe and experimentally evalu- ate a system, FeasPar, that learns pars- ing spontaneous speech. To train and run FeasPar (Feature Structure Parser), only limited handmodeled knowledge is required. The FeasPar architecture consists of neu- ral networks and a search. The networks spilt the incoming sentence into chunks, which are …...

This paper tbeuses on two disparate as- I)e(:ts of German syntax from the per- speetive of paral]eJ grammar develop- menl;. As part of a eOOl)erative project, we present an innovative approach to auxiliaries and multiph: genitive NPs ill German. The LFG-based imph:men- ration t)resented here avoids unnessary structural eonq)lexity in …...

The Pangloss Example-Based Machine Translation engine (I'anEI3MT) l is a translation system reql,iring essentially no knowledge of the structure of a lan- guage, merely a large parallel corpus of example sentences atn[ a bilingual dictio- nary. Input texts are segmented into se- quences of words occurring in the corpus, for …...

Cross-serial dependencies in Dutdl and Swiss-German are the only known extra- context fi'ee natural language syntactic phenonmna. Psycholinguistie evidence suggests cross-serial orderings tend to be easier to process t, lmn nested cons[,ruc- |iions. We, argue thai; |;tie expressivity re- quirements of the corresponding formal languages do not actually entail |;hat …...

We address here the treatment of me, tonymie expressions from a knowl- edge representation perspe(:tive, that is, in the context of a text understanding system whi('h aims to build a (:oncep- tual representation from texts according to a domain mode, l ext)resse, d in a knowl- edge representation formalism. We …...