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AbstractIn this paper, we examine the correlation between lexical semantics and the syntactic realization of the different components of a word’s meaning in natural language. More specifically, we will explore the effect that lexical factorization in verb semantics has on the suppression or expression of semantic features within the sentence. …...

The continuous study of stylistics has been re- garded as significant in identifying the border between language and literature. Hence the study presented a stylistic analysis of Alfredo Q. Gonzales’s essay “The Will of the River.” The lexis-grammar complementary analysis on the personal narrative of the author focused on the …...

This paper explores the differences between two near-synonymous disyllabic sentence-final particles in Mandarin Chinese bale and eryi based on a corpus-based approach. We argue that there is a close interaction between adverbs and sentence-final particles. Firstly, the usage of adverbs in the local proposition of two different SFPs has a …...

In this paper, we discuss Japanese all-words word sense disambiguation (WSD) and pro- pose a new system KyWSD to achieve it. Ky- WSD uses the Kyoto Text Analysis ToolKit, a learning system building a Japanese mor- phological analysis model. It accepts plain Japanese text, segments it into words, and as- …...

Neural-based and phrase-based methods have shown the effectiveness and promising results in the development of current machine transla- tion. The two methods are compared on some European languages, which show the advan- tages of the neural machine translation. Nev- ertheless, there are few work of comparing the two methods on …...

We discuss a process of exploiting a large cor- pus manually annotated with discourse rela- tions – the Prague Discourse Treebank 2.0 – to create a lexicon of Czech discourse connec- tives (CzeDLex). The data format and the data structure of the lexicon are based on a study of similar …...

This work is based on data elicited from a native speaker of the Twic East variety of Dinka. It focuses on tones, and shows that tones in Dinka can alter syntactic categories and word meaning, mark direct objects, indicate whether objects are viewable/present and distinguish plurality. 1....

AbstractNon-Negative Randomized Word Embedding We propose a word embedding method which is based on a novel random projection technique. We show that weighting methods such as positive pointwise mutual information (PPMI) can be applied to our models after their construction and at a reduced dimensionality. Hence, the proposed technique can …...

A huge factor in gender-based violence is per- ception and stigma, revealed by public dis- course. Topic modelling is useful for dis- course analysis and reveals prevalent topics and actors. This study aims to find and com- pare examples of collectivist and individualist conversation spaces of gendered violence by applying …...

Acquiring information on incidents and acci- dents from social media can be useful for broadcasters to report news faster. However, many tweets including words related to inci- dents and accidents are actually irrelevant to re- al events, for example, “Backdraft's explosion scene was impressive!!!” Social media contains many comments on …...

Social media is an important source for news writers. However, extracting useful informa- tion for news writers from the vast amount of social media information is laborious. There- fore, services that enable news writers to ex- tract important information are desired. In this paper, we describe a method to extract …...

Our study takes a comparable corpus-based statistical approach, to empirically examine the correlation between transitivity and separation ability for VO compound in Mandarin Chinese. The results of the two studies show that inseparable VOs are more likely to be used in a transitive way, compared to separable ones. In addition, …...

This paper presents a crowdsourcing approach for annotating causal relation instances to Wikipedia. Because an annotation task can- not be decomposed into multiple-choice prob- lems, we integrate a crowdsourcing service and brat, a popular on-line annotation tool, to provide an easy-to-use interface and quality control for annotation work. We design …...

Automatic document classification is now a growing research topic in Natural Language Processing. Several techniques were incorporated to build a classifier that can categorize documents written in specific languages into their designated categories. This study builds an automatic document classifier using machine learning which is suited for Tagalog documents. The …...

This study examines the wh-island effects in Korean. Since wh-in-situ languages like Korean allow wh-scrambling, the absence of wh-island constraints is accepted. However, it is controversial whether wh- clauses can take a matrix scope or not. In order to clarify the issue of wh-islands in Korean, the current paper designed …...

Pronouns are one of the universal components of language and they provide information on the morphosyntactic characteristics of any languages such as Philippine languages. Past researches show various analyses on the mor- phosyntax of PLs, a recent typological study claims that Philippine languages (PLs) are er- gative. Another study shows …...

The combination of strict scalar and exclusive components of focus particles has been considered to be exceptional and rare in the literature. In this study, we identify and analyze a frequently used multi-dimensional focus particle pianpian 偏偏 in Mandarin Chinese and claim that it is a strictly scalar exclusive focus …...

It is fairly challenging for a foreign language learner to read and understand Japanese texts containing words of high difficulty level or low frequency and complicated linguistic structures. Because a large number of Chinese characters (kanji in Japanese) are commonly used both in Chinese and Japanese, the more confusing problem …...

This study aims to provide an account of metaphor usage in Chinese political rhetoric regarding education over the past thirty years and shed light as to how lexical choices underline and reflect underlying conceptual patterns. Our study shows that the degree of metaphorization of “education” is similar among PRC Premiers …...

Arabic plagiarism detection is a difficult task because of the great richness of Arabic language characteristics of which it is a productive, derivational and inflectional language, on the one hand, and a word can has more than one lexical category in different contexts allows us to have different meanings of …...