... identifying the pos-
itive or negative semanticorientationof for-
eign words. Identifying thesemantic orienta-
tion of words has numerous applications in the
areas of text classification, analysis of ... where the attitude of participants in a discus-
sion is inferred using the text they exchange.
Due to its importance, several researchers have
addressed the problem of identifying the semantic
orientation ... network are connected.
We then define a random walk model over the multi-
lingual network and predict thesemantic orientation
of any given word by comparing the mean hitting
time of a random walk starting...
... goal of
this work is to identify thesemantic labels of IMs,
i.e., the attribute names they implicitly refer to. We
use A
c
to denote the set of IM semantic labels for
the intent class c.
Other
Additionally, ... best
IM:Type full time
IM:Title the godfather
Other the, in, that Other the, in, that Other the, in, that
Table 3: Label sets and their respective query segment examples for the intent class Movie, Job ... extract the semantic
structure of noun phrase queries, i.e., IHs, IMs
and thesemantic labels of IMs. In particular, we
investigate the use of transition, lexical, semantic
and syntactic features. The...
... to the mastering ofthe
grammatical features and semantic structures
of the words. These English words, apart
from their description of happiness, have
their connotations. They also have their ... base on
the context, whether informal or formal or
literary, to make a happy choice ofthe words.
The happy choice and the correct use ofthe
words by the translators, as a matter of fact, ... respect of semantics, “glad” and
“pleased” have one of their senses of
denoting the feeling of pleasure when
something good has happened. “Cheerful”
has one of three senses suggesting one of the...
... mainly focuses on the semantics of questions
that function as a request for information. The semantics refers to the close and
intense relationship between the form and the meaning of a sentence ... confirmation, we can reverse
the position ofthe tag to the beginning ofthe question (Thiêm, 2004). The tags
can be put at the beginning or function as a new sentence to indicate the
speaker’s emphasis. ... alternative
questions. They are: à, nhỉ, hả, nhé, ư, chứ, sao, nha, vậy, … (Thiêm, 2004). We
often find them at the end ofthe questions. These modal particles functions as the
intonation for...
... evaluators
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Predicting the fluency of ... a model in-
volve the use of syntax, but even in these cases flu-
ency is only indirectly assessed and the main ad-
vantage ofthe use of syntax is better estimation of
the semantic overlap between ... indepen-
dent of each other. Fluency was judged directly by
the assessors, while adequacy was meant to assess
the content ofthe sentence compared to a human
gold-standard. Yet, the assessments of the...
... supported by the Negev Consortium of
the Israeli Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor,
the PASCAL-2 Network of Excellence ofthe Eu-
ropean Community FP7-ICT-2007-1-216886 and
the Israel Science ... relatively to
the yield ofthe unfiltered resource) due to a sig-
nificant drop in relative recall. For example, Lin-
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RHS ofthe rule is unlikely to have the exact same
role in the text as the LHS. Many inference sys-
tems perform rule-based transformations, substi-
tuting the LHS by the RHS. This...
... ‘on top ofthe world’, ‘over the moon’ and ‘thrilled to bits’). They are dealt with in
respect of their grammatical features including the syntactic functions and morphology, and their semantic ... nuance of meaning in terms of grammar
and semantics. In this article, we are to discuss
the grammatical features [1,2] and semantic
structures [3-5] ofthe English words and
idioms denoting the ...
Dictionary of Current English [6], The
American Heritage Dictionary ofThe English
Language [7] and Oxford Dictionary of English
Idioms [8].
2. Adjectives Denoting Great Pleasure
All the adjectives...
... ofthe degree
of statistical dependence between the words. The
log of this ratio is the amount of information that
we acquire about the presence of one ofthe words
when we observe the other. ... K.R. 1997. Predict-
ing thesemanticorientationof adjectives. Proceed-
ings ofthe 35th Annual Meeting ofthe ACL and the
8th Conference ofthe European Chapter ofthe ACL
(pp. 174-181). ... direction of
the phrase’s semanticorientation (positive or nega-
tive, based on the sign ofthe rating), this numerical
rating also indicates the strength ofthesemantic
orientation (based on the...
... respectively.
In the case of adjectives, the above definition is
commonly relaxed to replace the total order among
the elements ofthe scale by a partial one, so that the
elements ofthe scale may ... classifying
them as either scalar or non-scalar. For determining
whether a group ofadjectives is scalar, we also plan
to use the gradability oftheadjectives as observed in
the corpus. In ...
sorting the pairs of observations (noun frequencies)
on one ofthe variables (adjectives) , and computing
how many ofthe (2) pairs of paired observations
agree or disagree with the expected...
... reports the results of a preliminary
experiment on the detection ofsemantic vari-
ants of terms in a French technical document.
The general goal of our work is to help the struc-
turation of ... capacity ofthe line)
cofit d'investissement de la ligne
(cost of investissement of
the
line)
d6clenchement de la ligne
9
(tripping
of
the
line)
E
longueur de la ligne (size ofthe ...
(caracteristic power
of the line)
ordre de d~clenchement
(order
of tripping)
de la ligne (of the line)
)
Figure 3: Fragment ofthe syntactic network (H = head, E = expansion).
Number of simple terms...
... Q
A
site, and therefore electrostatic
and/or steric interactions between one methoxy group and
the oxygen at C4 lower the binding order ofthe carbon C4
and strengthen the downshift ofthe 4C¼O mode ... structural models ofthe reaction
centre of Rb. sphaeroides should provide the methoxy
orientations of UQ
10
at the Q
A
and Q
B
binding sites.
However, there are a large variety of contradicting ... permutations within the different
structural models. From the contradictory picture of the
different structural models with regard to the methoxy
orientations, we conclude that the resolution ofthe X-ray-
based...
... guaia-
col). The activity of SlUGT5 was then tested with other
compounds that have been shown to be substrates of
HpUGT72B11 of H. pilosella (ACB56923) and the
arbutin synthase of R. serpentina. ... cannot explain the observed preference for the
b-isosalicin production determined by NMR. The main
difference between the conformation clusters lies in the
position ofthe aromatic ring of salicyl ... perceptions of tomato aroma [1,2]. The
expression of SlUGT5 mRNA during fruit development
and ripening is consistent with the SlUGT5 enzyme
having a role in the accumulation of glycosides of these
compounds...
... descriptors
account for 83% of variance ofthe t
m
for the cases in
the training series; the values of F-ratio for Eqns (27)
Table 10. Results ofthe stochastic bilinear indices-driven LDA models ofthe Arc A-mutants ... matrix) of the
coordinates of
y
m
in the canonical basis set of <
n
, and
[X
m
]
T
is the transpose of [X
m
], where [X
m
] is a column
vector (an n · 1 matrix) ofthe coordinates of
x
m
in the
canonical ... vertices
of G
m
, as a result ofthe fact that components of the
molecular vectors are values of some amino acid
property that characterizes each kind of R-chain in the
protein. The calculation of the...
... adjectives.
Table 3 summarizes the performance ofthe meth-
ods on the two groups of adjective pairs. 4 In order
to assess the significance ofthe differences between
4The applicability of ... quantitative analysis ofthe per-
formance of measurable linguistic tests for the selec-
tion ofthe semantically unmarked term out of a pair
of antonymous adjectives. The analysis shows that ... scores. The same can be said
about the test based on the differentiation properties
of the words (number of different parts of speech). In
fact, for these three variables, the hypothesis of ran-...
...
of the sentence have been incorporated.
As a result the parser produces a
configuration of individuals in the net -
the semantic representation ofthe input.
C. Generation
The task ofthe ... Interpretation ofthe first pair
of the entry for bekommen-i leads to the
instantiation ofthe root concept OBJTRANS
(RS:
(IND OBJTRANS)) and the creation of
the value OBJECT filled by the
representation ... task. The DN selects a
verb-sense according to the attributes of
the root node.
We will show the further
processing by means ofthe example shown
in Fig. 2. Let us assume the verb-sense 1
of...