... accounts for about half the total number of nounphrases in a text ill]. The other occurrences are nounphrases with relative clauses, and coordinated noun phrases. In construc- tions of the type ... Abstract Japanese has many noun phrase patterns of the type A no B consisting of two nouns A and B with an adnominal particle no. As the semantic relations between the two nouns in the noun phrase ... on feature unification. 1. Introduction Japanese has many noun phrase patterns of the type A no B. The noun phrase pattern, which consists of two nouns A and B with an adnominal particle no,...
... editors. 1997. Japanese Lexi- con. Iwanami Publishing. Information-Technology Promotion Agency, Japan. 1996. Japanese Nouns : A Guide to the IPA Lexicon of Basic Japanese Nouns. Japan Electronic ... Kokugojiten (Japanese dictionary for chil- dren). Sanseido. Yoichi Tomiura, Teigo Nakamura, and Toru Hi- taka. 1995. Semantic structure of Japanese noun phrases NP no NP (in Japanese) . Transactions ... dif- ficult problem in the semantic analysis of N1 1Although our method handles Japanesenoun phrases by using Japanese definition sentences, in this paper we use their English translations...
... class. 3.4 Noun phrase rules The postpositional particles that complete a noun phrase in Japanese serve primarily as case markers, but can also influence the interpreta- tion of the noun with ... Algorithm 3.2 Noun rules On the noun level, the lexical properties of the noun or one of its direct modifiers can determine the reference of the noun in question. There are a number of nouns, that ... Japanese into a European language such as German or English is to determine definiteness of nounphrases in order to choose the correct determiner in the target language. Even though in Japanese, ...
... verb phrases acting as subordinated components of Vietnamese noun phrases, relative pronouns are not translated. Only when relative clauses are rendered equally to clauses and the head nouns ... non-finite and finite clauses and prepositional phrases. However, the nounphrases in chapter XI appear to be much more complex, which means that the nounphrases are much longer and often modified ... characteristic of the head noun. In 5 2.2.3.1. Postmodification by noun or nounphrases …………………Postmodification by adjectives and adjectival phrases ……… 2.2.3.3....
... some examples of noun phrases that fit into none of the categories and some that fit in multiple categories. Modifier -noun phrases are often used inter-changeably with paraphrases which contain ... which phrases most commonly occurred between two nouns in the BNC. We counted the frequencies with which phrases occurred between two nouns and chose the 28 most frequent of these phrases ... relations best captures the differences in mean-ing of various noun phrases. Work in theoretical linguistics has suggested that noun- noun com-pounds may be formed by the deletion of a predi-cate...
... considerable discrepancy be-tween the number of nounphrases that can be trans-lated as nounphrases into English and noun phrases that are translated as noun phrases? The main reason is that translators ... of the number of nouns: Pluralnouns generally translate as plural nouns, whilesingular nouns generally translate as singularPreservation of prepositions: base preposi-tional phrases within ... performed on,e.g., noun- noun pair (Cao and Li, 2002) and namedentity translation (Al-Onaizan and Knight, 2002).2 Noun Phrase Translation as a SubtaskIn this work, we consider both nounphrases andprepositional...
... pragmatic cnnsi~lerations rel- want r,~ other noun phrases. Some other noun- phrase ex- amples of were discussed earlier, including quantiticational noun phrases and predicate nominals. Generics, ... uses of noun phrases. 2 Research Objectives The analysis presented in this paper represents one of the first steps toward a plan-based account of definite and in- definite noun phrases. ... nounphrases under consideration in this paper is assumed to entail recog- nition of what concept activation action the speaker intends to perform. 3 Summary of Actions Underlying Noun Phrases...
... - each of the books Possessive NP in specifier position - the man's book Pronouns Wh pronouns Pronouns in partitives Quantifying adj. in specifier position - all books N2 with no ... parsed, only one wh-pronoun turned up and this happened to represent a singleton type. Similarly, N1/SFIN only applies twice, but it is probable that there are more examples of nouns taking sentential ... head noun in cases where there is a posmaodifier, for example, those who perpetuate it, causes a problem for the ANLT grammar because the determiner those cannot be analysed as a pronoun since...
... expressions come in two basic forms:generic nounphrases and generic sentences. Bothexpress rule-like knowledge, but in different ways.A generic noun phrase is a noun phrase thatdoes not refer to a ... have similarextensions, i.e., include largely overlapping setsof noun phrases. In fact, all of the examplesfor generic nounphrases presented in this paperwould also be classified as generic ... people.41Feature DescriptionNumber sg, plPerson 1, 2, 3Countability ambig, no noun, count, uncount Noun Type common, proper, pronounDeterminer Type def, indef, demonGranularity The number of edges...
... NPs are translated into both noun noun and noun adjective compounds in thetarget languages. For example, love affair translatesin Italian as storia d’amore or the noun adjectivecompound relazione ... thefirst noun to the second noun, case realized as a suf-fix if the second noun is preceded by the definite arti-cle or as one of the genitival articles a/ai/ale. For ex-ample, the noun phrase ... moresemantically ambiguous noun - noun pairs, the web-based probabilistic model introduces a significantnumber of false positives. Thus, the more abstractthe categories, the more noun compounds are...
... development 4 Chapter One: Theoretical background 4 I: Nounphrases 4 I.1. Definition of nounphrases 4 I.2. Complex nounphrases 4 I.2.1. Head noun 4 I.2.2. Pre-modification 5 I.2.3. Post-modification ... I.1. Types of noun used as pre-modifier in complex nounphrases 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. ... in complex nounphrases 16 Chapter Two: Analysis for nominal and denominal elements as pre-modifiers in complex noun phrases 18 I. Nominal element as pre-modifiers in complex nounphrases 18...