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Concordances extracted from aligned bi-texts have become an extremely important tool for the bilingual lexicographer. This paper will show in a concrete way how bi-concordances are actually used in a bilingual dictionary project. 1....

ion and Underspecification in Semantic Transfer Bernd Abb, Bianka Buschbeck-Wolf, Christel Tschernitschek Institute for Logic and Linguistics IBM Deutschland Informationssysteme GmbH Vangerowstr.18, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany e-mail: {abb,bianka,christel}@heidelbg.ibm.com Abstract This paper introduces the semantic transfer approach MinT (Minimal Transfer) that has been developed in the speech-to-speech MT system VERBMOBIL. As a …...

This paper presents a new Korean verb conjugation system, which enables an easy treatment of Korean morphological phenomena such as contraction. This makes the size of the dictionary for ending forms to be small. We also introduce a Korean morphological analysis system. Korean morphological analysis system generally analyzes sentences within …...

Dictionary markup (encoding) is one of the concerns of TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), an international project for text encoding. In this paper, we investigate ways to use and extend TEI encoding scheme for the markup of Korean dictionary entries. Since TEI suggestions for dictionary markup are mainly for western language …...

This paper presents the results of a comparative text analysis of English anaphoric pronouns & their Japanese counterparts. It first demonstrates that although anaphoric pronouns in English are often compared to zero pronominals in Japanese, not all, but only some, of the English anaphoric pronouns have their counterparts in zero …...

This paper addresses multiple proportional readings in donkey sentences and deals with a question of why the disambiguation of proportional readings is affected by the topic structure of a sentence. The correlation between proportional readings and topic structure has been observed by Heim (1990) and Chierchia (1992) but has not …...

This paper presents a method to automatically find meanings which should be but are not entered in thesaurus. In this paper, we use Bunrui-goi-hyou as the thesaurus. To find the noun n with the meaning lacking in Bunrui-goi-hyou, we applies our presented method which extracts idioms from a corpus. We …...

This paper treats the Japanese adjective phrase forming derivational suffix -tai from a new point of view: firstly it tries to approach from a semantic standpoint by applying the proposal made in Ikeya (1991). It will be shown that adjective phrases formed by -tai fits nicely with the semantic structure …...

The Academia Sinica Balanced Corpus (Sinica Corpus) is the first balanced Chinese corpus with part-of-speech tagging. The corpus (Sinica 2.0) is open to the research community through the WWW (http://www.sinica.edu.twiftms- binikiwi.sh). Current size of the corpus is 3.5 million words, and the immediate expansion target is five million words. Each …...

This paper discusses semantic factors contributing to the resultative interpretation of predicates in the Japanese te-ir construction. The construction ambiguously takes on either progressive or resultative meanings. This ambiguity is due to the lexical meaning of the verb, and it is the purpose of this paper to single out and …...

Our research goal has been the development of a domain independent natural language processing (NLP) system suitable for information retrieval. As part of that research, we have investigated ways to automatically extend the semantics of a lexicon derived from machine-readable lexical sources. This paper details the extraction of thematic roles …...

The Lexical-Mapping Theory (LMT) in Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) predicts syntactic representations by mapping from the lexical predicate argument structure of the verbs (Bresnan and Kanerva 1989). Yet the widely followed account of control still is Bresnan's (1982) functional control based on grammatical functions and structural terms. In this paper, we …...

Korean as an agglutinative language shows its proper types of difficulties in morphological disambiguation, since a large number of its ambiguities comes from the stemming while most of ambiguities in French or English are related to the categorization of a morpheme. The current Korean morphological disambiguation systems adopt mainly statistical …...

On the observation of current available voice organizers, all of them accept only voice commands or word-based commands. Using natural spoken language to operate organizer is still a difficult problem. In this paper, a template-based speech recognizer which accepts near(constrained) spoken language is proposed. Since the template-based recognizer is a …...

A spontaneously spoken, natural Japanese discourse contains many instances of the so-called redundant interjections and of back- channel utterances. These expressions have not hitherto received much attention and few systematic analyses have been made. We show that these utterances are characterizable as discourse mark- ers, and that they comprise a …...

This paper is an investigation on the categorial status of locative and temporal WHs. We argue, based on empirical data, for the null P hypothesis proposed by Huang (1982), and against the proposal of Murasugi and Saito (1992) that when and where are sentential arguments. We suggest that the problem …...

This paper discusses the feature checking mechanism of interrogative sentences in Japanese and Korean. We first focus on a phenomenon of omitting question markers in informal speech in Japanese and attempt to provide an account for it within the framework of Principles and Parameters approach. We argue that question markers …...

In this paper we outline a lexical organization for Turkish that makes use of lexical rules for inflec- tions, derivations, and lexical category changes to control the proliferation of lexical entries. Lexical rules handle changes in grammatical roles, enforce type constraints, and control the mapping of sub- categorization frames in …...

. This work belongs to a family of research efforts, called microtheories and aimed at describing the static meaning of all lexical categories in several languages in the framework of the MikroKosmos project on computational semantics. The latter also in- volves other static microtheories describing world knowledge and syntax-semantics map- …...

This paper addresses the problem of large-scale acquisition of computational-semantic lexicons from machine-readable resources. We describe semantic filters designed to reduce the number of incorrect assignments (i.e., improve precision) made by a purely syntactic technique. We demonstrate that it is possible to use these filters to build broad-coverage lexicons with …...