... modify a definition. In each case, the same methods are available for making definitions, and are independent of the modifier type being defined. When creating or modifying a meaning, users ... override any hints made by the system. 4. Semantic Processing inTELI The semantic model developed for TELI, in which definitions are acquired from users, assumes that (1) modifier meanings will ... presented with information as shown in Figure 4-a; upon asking to "add a constraint", they are given the menu shown in Figure 4-b. Multiple "constraints" appearring in a semantic...
... variable and indeterminate, they are much less so than judgments of semantic acceptabil- ity, which do not play any part in VEX's main decision-making process. In or- der to remind the user ... ing and merging of the information encoded in them carried out by unifi- cation during parsing. Word sense entries for words are specified in the same way, but involve semantic as well as syntactic ... as syntactic features. Semantic interpretation, which takes place in tandem with parsing, works by unification of feature values in word sense entries and semantic in- terpretation rules....
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... Capturing Language Specific Constraints on Lexi- cal Selection with Feature-Based Lexicalized Tree- Adjoining Grammars. in Proceedings of the Inter- national Conference on Chinese Computing Sin- ... translation links (Tlinks), whereas truly multilingual lexicons, as defined by (Cahill and Gazdar, 1995), involve n 4- 1 hierar- chies, thus involving an additional abstract hierarchy containing information ... meanings in context (e.g., "se tenir" ~ PsVertical). In other words, WYSINNWYG helps not only in sense selection but also in sense modulation. Further research involves investigating...
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... syntax/semantics interface – it specifieswhich node in the tree provides the value for whichvariable in the final semantic representation.As trees combine during derivation, two thingshappen: ... property) and returning a pro-position. Using a flat semantics, this intuition canbe captured by having adjectives binding both anindividual and a label variable. Thus in Fig. 4, theadjective ... based Semantics for LTAG. In M. Buttand T. Holloway King, editors, Proceedings of theLFG01 Conference, Hong Kong.B.A. Hockey and H. Mateyak. 2000. Determining De-terminer Sequencing: A...
... slot fillinginformation for nouns and adjectives.• The “Other” layer, containing special casessuch as null arguments.The semantic entities that we consider in thisarticle are defined in the ... word in italics.3 Semantic Entities in FrameNetThe semantic annotation in FrameNet consists ofa set of layers. One of the layers defines the tar-get, and the other layers provide additional infor-mation ... FrameNet Project. In Proceed-ings of COLING-ACL’98, pages 86–90, Montréal,Canada.Chih-Chung Chang and Chih-Jen Lin, 2001. LIBSVM:a library for support vector machines.Michael J. Collins. 1999....
... more traininginstances by collecting instances for fine-grainedroles. Thus, semantic roles with few training in- stances are expected to receive additional cluesfrom other training instances ... training. In contrast, in Table 6,we used all types of coreness for training, but computed theperformance of semantic roles for each coreness separately.25groupings of roles together in the ... roles in Yfare contained in the same class. Forexample, we can construct a semantic- type groupSt::State of affairs in which Giving::Reason andGiving::Means are included, as illustrated in Fig-ure...
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... verb in a particular sen-tence tend to look only within the smallest clausecontaining . They include collocational featuresrequiring no linguistic preprocessing beyond part-of-speech tagging, ... of semantic roles.1 IntroductionA word can have different meanings dependingon the context in which it is used. Word SenseDisambiguation (WSD) is the task of determiningthe correct meaning ... tagged) were incorporated as features in our WSD system to see if knowing the coarse-grained sense tags would be useful in assigning fine-grained WordNet sense tags. A frameset tag forthe instance...
... formaliz-ing semantic construction within gram-mars expressed in typed feature struc-ture logics, including HPSG. The ap-proach provides an alternative to thelambda calculus; it maintains much ... composition, whileconstraining the allowable operations in order to capture basic generalizationsand improve maintainability.1 IntroductionSome constraint-based grammar formalisms in- corporate both ... usual in constraint based gram-mars to allow for underspecification of quantifierscope by giving labels to pieces of semantic in- formation and stating constraints between the la-bels. In MRS,...
... comparing and contrasting linguistics became popular thanks to the emergence of new lands, new communities, and new languages. Sine 1970s, comparing and contrasting linguistics has been playing ... the other hand, in English, a rising intonation is important when using tag questions. In fact, rising intonation is the only feature that makes this type of questions distinct from declarative ... the close and intense relationship between the form and the meaning of a sentence (Thiêm, 2004). Comparing and contrasting questions in terms of their semantics enable us to point out the question...
... research Gardner went on to investigate motivation as an influencing factor in L2 acquisition. Before examining the effect of motivation on second language learning it is first important to ... proficient in the dominant language of the country. The same can be said of many other predominantly establishment the student's interest to continue study declined. Prior to beginning the ... experience instructors need to put a great deal of thought into developing programs which maintain student interest and have obtainable short term goals. At university level this may include,...