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work
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Ns that can be Countableand
Ns that can be Countableand
Uncountable
Uncountable
Countable
Countable
Uncountable
Uncountable
There are
There are
two hairs
two ...
for an uncountable N
for an uncountable N
I eat
I eat
rice
rice
every day.
every day.
Rice
Rice
is
is
good for you.
good for you.
Countable Ns
Countable Ns
&
&
Uncountable ...
few elephants
few elephants
in England.
in England.
3. only use
3. only use
much
much
&
&
little
little
with uncountable Ns
with uncountable Ns
I don't usually drink...
... morning. I didn’t have time/ a time for
breakfast.
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Time
Countable Ns &
Countable Ns &
uncountable Ns
uncountable Ns
•
10. When the fire alarm rang, there was total chaos/ ... accident but the damage/
damages to the car was/ were bad.
•
Damage - was
Some nouns are uncountable.
Some nouns are uncountable.
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Accommodation
•
Advice
•
Baggage
•
Behavior
•
Bread
•
Chaos
•
Damage
•
Furniture
•
Information
•
... a
total chaos.
•
Total chaos
•
11. I had to buy a/ some bread because I wanted to
make some sandwiches.
•
Some
•
12. Bad news don’t/ doesn’t make people happy.
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Doesn’t
•
13. Your hair is/...
...
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3) Noun which can be either countable or uncountable nouns.
Many English nouns are used sometimes as countable nouns and sometimes
as uncountable nouns. Nouns which can be either countable ... Some nouns non- plurals with „s‟ are uncountable nouns.
Uncountable noun do not have regular form and take a singular verb. The
singular category includes uncountable nouns and proper nouns. ... between countableand
uncountable nouns in Vietnamese and English. Only 27.4% agree that there is
difference between countableanduncountable nouns in English and
Vietnamese. On basically, countable...
... position binary vector for
each word using the anchor points. The re-
maining nouns and proper nouns in English and
all words in Chinese are represented in a non-
linear segment binary vector ... find the translations for words which
are tagged as nouns, plural nouns or proper nouns
only. This produced a more useful list of lexicon and
again improved the speed of our program.
3.2 Positional ... text between j and
v is noise. We have at this point a segment-aligned
parallel corpus with noise elimination.
5 Finding low frequency bilingual
word pairs
Many nouns and proper nouns were not...
... speaker and hearer
for the action to succeed. Searle {1969) presents an anal-
ysis of referring as a speech act and dismisses many uses
of noun phrases as nonreferring. Such nonreferring noun ... in the Planning of Definite and Indefinite
Noun Phrases
Douglas E. Appelt
Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International
and
Center for the Study of Language and Information
Stanford University ... is that the speaker and hearer mutually believe both
the description in the noun phrase and the PF identifiable
description. In the case of the NSI action, the speaker and
he=rer mutually...
... official permission from the owner of the land. And
I mean official permission. You can’t just ask a landowner in person and get him to say
yes. The landowner has to sign an official agreement ...
wind and not under trees.
6. The cooking area should be close, but not
too close, to the tents.
7. The latrine and washing area should be
down wind and away from the tent site and
cooking ... dodging the smoke.
And don’t be lazy. Prepare your food while the fire is burning down to embers, don’t just
sit and watch the flames.
And because you have taken so much time and trouble over...
... !"((
3.2. Adjectives and nouns
Adjectives and nouns in English and Vietnamese, as modifiers of noun phrases are
quite different from each other. In English, adjectives and nouns often have the ... the basic differences and
similarities between noun phrases in English and Vietnamese and their effects (positive and
negative) on the translation of noun phrases in “Pride and Prejudice” ”
...
closer look at noun phrases in English and in Vietnamese and assigned the paper the title “
Noun phrases in some selected chapters from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and the
equivalents...
... n
ij
is the observed value of cell ij and ˆp
i+
, ˆp
+j
are row
and column marginal probabilities estimated from the data.
75
tic relations that describe noun- noun dependencies.
Such relations provide ... Dan Moldovan, Marta Tatu, and Daniel
Antohe. 2005. On the semantics of noun compounds.
Computer Speech and Language, 19(4):479–496.
Roxana Girju. 2006. Out-of-context noun phrase seman-
tic interpretation ... 29(1):205–220.
Su Nam Kim and Timothy Baldwin. 2005. Automatic
interpretation of noun compounds using WordNet sim-
ilarity. In Proc. IJCNLP-05, pages 945–956, Jeju Is-
land, Korea.
Mirella Lapata and Frank Keller....
... Euclidean distance.
Also, they use 64 joining terms and gather
counts for both the forms noun joining term modi-
fier” and “modifier joining term noun (128 fre-
quencies in total); while we use ... , MA.
Preslav Nakov and Marti Hearst. 2006. Using Verbs to
Characterize Noun- Noun Relations. In Proceedings
of AIMSA 2006, pp 233-244, Varne, Bulgaria.
Preslav Nakov and Marti Hearst. 2005. ... Nastase and Stan Szpakowicz. 2003. Exploring
Noun- Modifier Semantic Relations. In Fifth Interna-
tional Workshop on Computational Semantics, pp
285-301. Tillburg, Netherlands.
Barbara Rosario and...
... 72.8%
ing by Pantel and Lin (2002) so that the results are
comparable. We randomly choose 100 nouns and
calculate the top N elements closest to each noun in
the similarity lists using the randomized algorithm
described ... Computational Linguistics
Randomized Algorithms and NLP: Using Locality Sensitive Hash Function
for High Speed Noun Clustering
Deepak Ravichandran, Patrick Pantel, and Eduard Hovy
Information ... Vectors
Having collected all nouns and their features, we
now proceed to construct feature vectors (and
values) for nouns from both corpora using mu-
tual information (Church and Hanks, 1989). We
first...
...
Abstract nouns can be singular nouns and plural nouns.
Abstract nouns can be countable or uncountable.
For examples: love, friendship, romance, happiness, sleep…
Abstract nouns function ... (compound noun)
A green `house = house painted green ( adjective and noun)
A `bluebird = type of bird (compound noun)
A blue `bird = any bird with blue feathers ( adjective and noun)
Many ...
I.1. Types of noun used as pre-modifier in complex noun phrases 18
I.1.1. Proper nouns 20
I.1.1.1. Personal proper nouns 21
I.1.1.2. Geographical nouns 22
I.1.1.3. Institutional nouns 23
I.1.1.4....
... Quirk and Greenbaum (1985:246) common nouns in English are
divided into three kinds: countable noun, uncountable noun, both contable and
uncountable noun.
Countablenoun
“ Countable nouns ...
But the same abstract nouns can often switch between countableanduncountable
use.
Eg:
She showed me much kindness. (uncountable)
She showed me many kindnesses. (countable)
Society must ... and modifiers). The box shows the
categories and some of possible markers for both countableanduncountable
(Raims, 1990:46)
Countable
Uncountable
Singular
A ring
The ring...
... Work
17509 Tratz and Hovy, 2010
2169 Kim and Baldwin, 2005
2031 Girju, 2007
1660 Rosario and Hearst, 2001
1443 Ó Séaghdha and Copestake, 2007
505 Barker and Szpakowicz, 1998
600 Nastase and Szpakowicz, ... one feature type and all but one
feature type experiments, denoted by 1 and M-1
respectively. ∩–features shared by both n
1
and n
2
;
∧–n
1
and n
2
features conjoined by logical AND
(e.g., n
1
is ... on the interpretation
of noun compounds with 3 or more nouns, a prob-
lem that includes bracketing noun compounds into
their dependency structures in addition to noun-
noun semantic relation interpretation....