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Lexical Semantics, Syntax, and Event Structure

2010
AbstractThis book focuses on the linguistic representation of temporality in the verbal domain and its interaction with the syntax and semantics of verbs, arguments, and modifiers. Leading scholars explore the division of labour between syntax, compositional semantics, and lexical semantics in the encoding of event structure, encompassing event ...
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Lexical-index-based Japanese syntax matching

2016 12th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (ICNC-FSKD), 2016
Syntax matching is a challenging basic issue, and related algorithms can be widely used in natural language processing. This paper addresses the problem of how to efficiently match a sentence with the most similar syntactic structure to a given Japanese sentence from a big set of Japanese sentences, designs a novel lexical index data structure of ...
Wuying Liu, Lin Wang 0020, Xing Zhang 0008   +2 more
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Lexical projection and the interaction of syntax and semantics in parsing

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1989
A series of self-paced reading studies utilized an embedded anomaly technique to investigate long-distance dependencies with dative verbs. Previous research in our lab demonstrated that argument structure influences the gap-filling process. Experiment 1 extended that work by demonstrating that dative verbs pattern with other complex transitive verbs (i.
J E, Boland, M K, Tanenhaus, G, Carlson, S M, Garnsey   +3 more
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Annotating Syntax and Lexical Semantics With(out) Indexing

2018
A new method of annotation is introduced that is able to establish a rich range of dependencies without recourse to indexing. With well defined annotation practices for assigning structure, the index-less annotation can be subsequently processed by means of a mechanism of semantic calculation that identifies relationships (dependencies) by reference to
Alastair Butler, Stephen Wright Horn
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Syntax-driven and ontology-driven lexical semantics

1992
We describe the scopes of two schools in lexical semantics, which we call syntax-driven lexical semantics and ontology-driven lexical semantics, respectively. Both approaches are used in various applications at The Center for Machine Translation. We believe that a comparative analysis of these positions and clarification of claims and coverage is ...
Sergei Nirenburg, Lori S. Levin
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The Lexical Structure and Syntax of Functors

2006
AbstractThe internal strucutre and syntax of functions are investigated, including their roles as circumstantials (adjuncts) as well as participants. Circumstantials as well as participants are subject to localism. Circumstantiality includes the role of semantic relations in apposition.
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Lexical syntax for Arabic SMT

2012
The current approaches of Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation lacks the capabilities of producing grammatical translations and handling long-range reordering. In this chapter, we presnet our work for extending Phrase-based SMT with lexical syntactic descriptions that localize global syntactic information on the word without introducing ...
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On Lexical Properties, Syntax, and Brain Damage

1994
This manuscript describes how lexical and syntactic properties contribute to the process of producing and understanding sentences. The logic to our approach takes the following line: We assume that language processing exploits a mind/brain data base consisting of representations, rules, and principles specific to the language domain.
Lewis P. Shapiro, Cynthia K. Thompson
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The Internal Syntax of Lexical Suffixes in Bella Coola

International Journal of American Linguistics, 1975
Of the Salishan languages of the Pacific Northwest, Bella Coola seems to possess the most well-developed system of lexical suffixes. By "lexical suffix" we mean a verbal suffix that reflects a portion of the semantic content of some lexical item that stands in construction with the verb.
Ross Saunders, Philip W. Davis
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EVIDENCE OF LEXICAL TRANSFER IN LEARNER SYNTAX

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2001
This article reports the findings of a study in which transfer of verb properties was investigated via syntactic data elicited from second language (L2) learners. It was hypothesized that a learner's first language (L1) would influence the acquisition of verbs in those L2 semantic classes where so-called L1-L2 translation equivalents could be found. To
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