... mismatches andsemantic ambiguity. We first show how the underlying machinery of the semantic- based transfer approach de- veloped in Dorna and Emele (1996b) can be ported to syntactic f-structure ... issue, noted above, is the problem of ambiguities and ambiguity preserving trans- fer. F-structures and UDRSs are underspecified syntactic andsemantic representations, respec- tively. Both ... can be interfaced qua semantic representations: in our case the tested transfer methodology and resources developed in (Dorna and Emele, 1996a). References H. Alshawi and R. Crouch. 1992....
... used to limit the range of syntactic pos- sibilities and the parser will align tone group and move syntactic boundaries at a later stage. By integrating syntax and semantics, the Parser is ... assumes that the input move is lexically correct and tries to obtain a parse for it, employing syntacticandsemantic relaxation techniques for handling ill-formed sentences (Huang 1988). If ... certain context. 117 Prosodic Aids to SyntacticandSemantic Analysis of Spoken English Chris Rowles and Xiuming Huang AI Systems Section Australia and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation...
... otherwise.(3)where s1a and s2b indicate the concatenation ofthe sequences s and t with the argument nodes, a and b, respectively and σ(h(a),h(b)) is 1 if thechildren of a and b are identical ... Association for Computational Linguistics Syntactic andSemantic Kernels for Short Text Pair CategorizationAlessandro MoschittiDepartment of Computer Science and EngineeringUniversity of TrentoVia ... In B. Sch¨olkopf, C. Burges, and A. Smola, editors,Advances in Kernel Methods.C. R. Johnson and C. J. Fillmore. 2000. The framenet tagsetfor frame -semantic andsyntactic coding of predicate-argument...
... activations in fMRI and PETstudies of episodic encoding and retrieval. Hippocampus, 9, 7–24.Syntax and Semantics with fMRI 363 Syntactic ViolationsTable I and Figs. 1 and 2 show that syntactic violations ... temporal and tem-poral-parietal) and encoding and/ or retrieval of semantic information(medial temporal regions and the left prefrontal cortex).The temporal lobe is known to be involved in semantic ... underlie semantic memory more generally, bothin the encoding and retrieval of information, and in its long-term storage.358 Newman et al.An Event-Related fMRI Study of Syntactic and Semantic...
... (Sagae and Lavie, 2006; Hall et al., 2007;Attardi and Dell’Orletta, 2009; Surdeanu and Man-ning, 2010), or their training is integrated, e.g. usingstacking (Nivre and McDonald, 2008; Attardi and Dell’Orletta, ... Linguistics:shortpapers, pages 710–714,Portland, Oregon, June 19-24, 2011.c2011 Association for Computational LinguisticsAn Ensemble Model that Combines SyntacticandSemantic Clusteringfor Discriminative ... word representationsbased on semanticandsyntactic clusters in order toimprove discriminative dependency parsing in theMSTParser framework (McDonald et al., 2005), and 2) We provide an ensemble...
... LinguisticsUsing Lexical Dependency and Ontological Knowledge to Improve aDetailed SyntacticandSemantic Tagger of EnglishAndrew FinchNiCT∗-ATR†Kyoto, Japanandrew.finch@atr.jpEzra BlackEpimenides ... simple setof features: the article before; the POS before and after; the preposition before and after, and the syntactic category before and after the word be-ing labeled. The features used in ... treebankers, and between the treebankers and the ATR grammarian. The semantic catego-rization is, of course, in addition to an extensive syntactic classification, involving some 165 basicsyntactic...
... auto-matic verb classification according to VerbNet and FrameNet. We define syntacticandsemantic struc-tures capturing essential lexical andsyntactic prop-erties of verbs. Then, we apply similarity ... 43(3):209–226.Stephan Bloehdorn and Alessandro Moschitti. 2007a.Combined syntacticandsemantic kernels for text clas-sification. In Gianni Amati, Claudio Carpineto, and Gianni Romano, editors, ... arguments and consequently their verb sense (Gildea and Juras-fky, 2002; Pradhan et al., 2005; Gildea and Palmer,2002). However, the definition of models for opti-mally combining lexical and syntactic...
... plagiarism by exploiting lexical, syntactic andsemantic features that includes duplication-gram, reordering and alignment of words, POS and phrase tags, andsemantic similarity of sentences. ... taken as semantics of a document. We use LDA to obtain the topic distribution of a query and a candidate snippet, and compare the cosine similarity of them as a measure of their semantic similarity. ... framework that integrates lexical, syntactic andsemantic features to achieve this goal. Our system is language independent and we have implemented both Chinese and English versions for evaluation....
... performance of both syntacticandsemantic parsing. This is promising and encouraging. To our best knowledge, this is the first research on exploring syntactic parsing and SRL for verbal and nominal ... of joint learning on syntacticand semantic parsing, Miller et al. (2000) and Finkel and Manning (2009) showed the effectiveness of joint learning on syntactic parsing and some simple NLP ... complexity of both syntacticand semantic parsing. To our best knowledge, this is the first suc-cessful research on exploring syntactic parsing and semantic role labeling for verbal and nomi-nal...
... the morphological and pho- nological level: (8)a. Kimgot lonelier and lonelier and lonelier. b. Kim got more and more and more lonely. c. *Kim got lonelier and more lonely and lonelier. This ... SCC') Assume that there are two basic semantic types, and B, and that 4" andS" are constants denoting entities of types A and B respectively. ~, ~, and are cross-categorlal operators. ... Pauline, and Pullum, Geoffrey K., eds. (1982) Th_._ee Nature of Syntactic Representation. D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland. Lakoff, George, and Peters, Stanley (1969) 'Thrasal conjunction and...
... Combining Lexical, Syntactic, andSemantic Features withMaximum Entropy Models for Extracting RelationsNanda KambhatlaIBM T. J. Watson Research Center1101 ... syntacticandsemantic fea-tures derived from the text. Our system obtainedcompetitive results in the Automatic Content Ex-traction (ACE)evaluation. Herewe present our gen-eral approach and ... that combine diverse lexical, syntactic andsemantic features. Our results indicate that us-ing a variety of information sources can result inimproved recall and overall F measure. Our ap-proach...
... mentioned above and that of Gibson and Wexler (1994), Siskind (1992)Sakas and Fodor (2001), and Yang (2002). Theseall evaluate their learners on the basis of a smallnumber of predefined syntactic ... generalcombinatory schemata and a functional mappingfrom semantic type to syntactic category. Further-more, this paper is the first to evaluate a modelof child syntactic- semantic acquisition by ... WorkModels of syntactic acquisition, whether theyhave addressed the task of learning both syn-tax and semantics (Siskind, 1992; Villavicencio,2002; Buttery, 2006) or syntax alone (Gibson and Wexler,...
... machine learning techniques, e.g. SNoW (Li and Roth, 2005), where questions are encoded us-ing various lexical, syntacticandsemantic features.The retrieval and answer extraction phases consist ... convolution kernels for depen-dency and constituent syntactic trees. In ECML’06.S. Quarteroni and S. Manandhar. 2006. User modelling forAdaptive Question Answering and Information Retrieval. InFLAIRS’06.E. ... introduces a viable ap-proach based on tree kernels.3 SyntacticandSemantic Kernels for TextAs mentioned above, encoding syntactic/ semantic information represented by means of tree structuresin...
... benefit from better detection and treat-ment initiation. The OAB-V8 questionnaire is a possi-ble effective and fast screening tool. Our study also examined the risk factors for OA B i n m en. ... (2), nocturia (1), incontinence (2) and emptying (1). The questionnaire also included medical and surgical history, demographic data, BMI, medications and visit diagnosis. OAB-V8 total score ... relationship between OAB and other factors (age, BMI, smoking, race, diabetes, hypertension, congestive heart failure, chronic ob-structive pulmonary disease, diuretic medications and hepatitis),...
... neuromuscular control and intervertebral disc integrity to the aetiology of osteoporotic vertebral fracture. Interpretation: A better understanding of factors such as biomechanical loading and neuromuscular ... lowest BMD, lowest trabecular number and greatest trabecular separation. Generally vertebrae are less dense anteriorly and superiorly and more dense posteriorly and inferiorly with heterogeneity ... dysfunction, adaptation and enhancement. J. Spinal Disord. 1992 5:383-389. 72. Parfitt AM. Bone remodelling: Relationship to the amount and structure of bone, and the pathogenesis and prevention of...