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The present study investigated whether the local/A-scrambling of non-subject NPs to clause-initial (a potential subject) position can turn them into controllers of subject properties such as Honorific Agreement and Plural Copying. The study was motivated by findings which showed that A-scrambled non-subjects can control some subject properties, such as reflexive …...

Research showed that the communication of social support in online self-help groups was therapeutic to participants. However, previous studies tended to focus on the content shared and have overlooked the communicative behaviors of the communication. Drawing upon the framework of discourse analysis, this study manifests the communicative patterns of the …...

The distractor stimuli are highly effective in modulating speech production latencies in word-picture interference task. It is one of the main experimental methods to explore the relationship between speech production net- work and perception network (Levelt et al., 1999). The distractors can be presented in both visual and auditory modalities …...

Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) are arti- facts observed on a network or in an operat- ing system that can be utilized to indicate a computer intrusion and detect cyber-attacks in an early stage. Thus, they exert an impor- tant role in the field of cybersecurity. How- ever, state-of-the-art IOCs detection …...

This study aims to investigate how native speakers of Chinese perceive the semantic transparency of radicals in Chinese characters and how their perception is related to the onto- logical representation of characters. More spe- cifically, we use semantic transparency as a measurement to compare the perception of na- tive Chinese …...

This paper presents a Japanese zero anaphora resolution model which deals with both intra- and inter-sentential zero anaphora. Solving inter-sentential anaphora needs to consider a large number of antecedent candidates beyond the sentence boundaries, which is a crucial ob- stacle for training the model and resolving the anaphora. To cope …...

Adding external information from unlabeled data to Named Entity Recognition task is the direction of research for solving the scarcity of labeled data. In this issue, adding pre-trained context embeddings as external information from language model is the state-of-the-art technology. However, it has combined external information to the model with …...

The paper describes a development of percep- tual training software which realizes a percep- tual training paradigm to aid Japanese Man- darin Chinese learners with identifying nasal codas “-n” and “-ng”. This training paradigm is novel from the viewpoint that it retains the primary advantages of High Variability Train- ing …...

We provide computational linguistics an unsupervised algorithm for Collocation Representing in vector space using segmented corpora. By collocation, we mean a directed association of head word and dependency word that constructed by fully random combine in a sentence. Our algorithm represents dependency words by dense vectors that are trained to …...

This study presents results of an experimental investigation into the acquisition of core-peripheral distinction in English split intransitivity. The purpose is to investigate whether L2 learners of English are sensitive to an aspectual and thematic hierarchy that underlies the core-peripheral distinction similarly to L2 learners of Romance languages who were …...

In this paper, I re-examine yuánlái2 ‘it turn out that’, for which Wu (2012a) proposes a tem- poral semantics. Revising the temporal se- mantics proposed, I also argue that yuánlái2 is evidential and simultaneously denotes alethic modality. Following Portner’s (2009) idea on the semantics of alethic modality, I propose the …...

Haplology is the elimination of one of the two consecutive identical sounds or syllables. Sinitic languages offer an interesting and challenging example in the study of haplology. Since a syllable corresponds typically to a morpheme in Sinitic languages, hence haplology typically eliminates a full morpheme. Thus haplology in Sinitic languages …...

The ability to analyze sentiment is a ma- jor technology to analyze social media pro- cess. The sentiment analysis involves read- ing and understanding what is being said about a brand as well as advertising cam- paigns in online services to determine the nature of a product. Because the Viet- …...

This study sketches a vocabulary profile of Ha Jin, a prominent Chinese writer. Ha Jin’s writ- ings have been repeatedly used to showcase a Chinese variety of English, and his repertoire of words deserves systematic description on its own right. A sample of his novels is con- structed for this …...

This paper re-examines the debatable issue about adverbial clause (A,CL) whether it in- dexes a complex discourse of contemporary English and how it distributes across Speech (S) and Writing (W) with different subtypes of structures by investigating the internal struc- ture variations. A Finite-State-Machine model is adopted for retrieving the …...

Sentence Classification is one of the most fun- damental tasks in NLP, where the aim is to classify a given sentence into a pre-defined set of classes. A lot of work has been done in English in the last few years, which vary in their methodologies. A huge proportion of …...

Communicative efficiency in this study is quantified both as transmission efficiency and as representation efficiency, adopting an explicit method proposed by Myers, Tsay and Su (2011). Transmission efficiency is defined as the amount of information transmitted during a specific time and is measured by the rate of propositions per second. …...

This study investigates must constructions in the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 (Spoken BNC2014). A constructionist perspective is taken to examine the structure and distribution of must constructions in the spoken corpus. Moreover, a conversational analysis is conducted to identify the functions of must constructions as they are used in …...

People thrive in storytelling as a means of sharing their experiences with one another and learning about the world through narra- tives. With the advancement of technology, social media platforms have become a com- mon medium for people to recount and to share stories about their life events anytime and …...

We present a new task, suspicious news de- tection using micro blog text. This task aims to support human experts to detect suspicious news articles to be verified, which is costly but a crucial step before verifying the truthfulness of the articles. Specifically, in this task, given a set of …...