... CLEFT SENTENCE EXERCISE
I. Rewrite the sentences, using Cleft sentences.
1. My friend came to see me late last night.
2. I can’t stand ... Prime Minister was traveling to France yesterday when the alarm sounded.
II. Change the sentences into cleft sentences in the passive:
1. Fred gave Mary the money.
2. Mr. Johnson sent the Jiff Company...
... buy a lot of goods when they go to supermarkets.
Reading 42
. Read the passage and decide if the sentences following it are True or False. (3.0 pts)
In response to the question: Do you find The ... learn their first languages easily and sometimes other languages as well.
A. Complete the following sentences
1. All languages have rules for …………………… ……
2. In written languages, meaning is expressed ... do they use nylon for?
4. Is nylon important to our lives?
5. What is 'it' in the last sentence replaced for?
Reading 35
. Read and choose the best option (a, b, c or d) to complete the...
... method.
2 Sentence compression
Sentence compression is the task of summarizing a
sentence while retaining most of the informational
content and remaining grammatical (Jing, 2000).
In extractive sentence ... example sentence and its extractive compression.
where the underlined words were deleted. In su-
pervised sentence compression, the goal is to gen-
eralize from a parallel training corpus of sentences
(source) ... task of extrac-
tive sentence compression and the Bayesian STSG
model, and algorithms we used for inference and
prediction. We then describe the experiments in
extractive sentence compression...
... sensitive to sentence- length (longer
sentences are more likely to contain overlapping
words than shorter ones), hence in Table 2 we report
on Rouge scores that are normalized with respect
sentence ... sure
that the fusions in the four categories resulted
in sentences with a sufficiently different content.
For each question, one representative sentence
was selected from the 22 fusions produced by
participants ... (=“worst”) as
a function of fusion type.
representative sentence was the most frequent result
for that particular category. When no such sentence
was present for a particular task, a random selection
was...
...
factors used for ranking sentences include the
position of sentence in the source document, the
words contained in sentence and the number of
query terms contained in sentence. In another
study ... each retrieved
sentence and then used to define the relevance of
sentence
3.2 Identification of Sentence Relevance
Term dependences defined above provide struc-
ture basis for sentence relevance ... al., 2003). Sentences
are then ranked by the cosine similarity between
the expanded query vector and sentence vector.
In (Zhang et al., 2003), blind relevance feedback
and automatic sentence...
... another reading for the sentence, then only a pre-
ferred reading for the sentence has been calculated.
Thus if we know where one reading of a (temporarily)
ambiguous sentence becomes the strongly ...
Frazier, Lyn 1979 On Comprehending Sentences:
Syntactic Parsing Strategies. Ph.D. Thesis, Uni-
versity of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
Frazier, Lyn 1985 Syntactic Complexity. In Dowty,
David, Karttunen, ... Lyn
1983 The Interaction of Syntax and Semantics
during Sentence Processing: Eye Movements in
the Analysis of Semantically Biased Sentences.
Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior...
... phrases in the an-
swer sentence, see Section 4 of this paper. Step
3 is concerned with retrieving the parse tree for
the answer sentence. In our implementation all
answer sentences in the training ... two
entities: a) a sentence that constitutes a valid
response to the query, b) the head node of a
phrase in that sentence that constitutes the answer.
Therefore the algorithm can be used for sentence
retrieval ... answer sentences.
In this paper we describe an algorithm that
learns possible syntactic answer sentence formu-
lations for syntactic question classes from a set of
example question/answer sentence...
... VOC of
the lexical entries that will make up the
sentence (more precisely, the sentence& apos;s
"content words"). The meaning of the sentence
to be produced is constructed step by step ... ends. The
meaning of the sentence The do~ sleeps
deeply has been constructed.
GEMS can be slightly modified to generate
equative sentences (Fido is a do~) and
sentences containing noun modifiers ... something
on Napoleon". The system's response would be
to produce a sentence expressing some
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G~4S: A MODEL OF SENTENCE PRODUCTION
Domenico Parisi Alessandra Giorgi
Istituto di Psicologia...
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Exercises
6.19
Prove the ...
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the complex
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for
each complex
of
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modules
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and show that the following complex
is exact:
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domain and
a,
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