... ofthe prepo-sitions (especially of/ de) to the semantic classes addsto the complexity oftheinterpretation task. Thus,for theinterpretationof these constructions a systemmust rely on the ... the contribution the features exemplified in one baselineand six versions ofthe SVM model. The baseline isdefined only for the English part ofthe NP featureset and measures thethe contribution ofthe ... EXPERIENCER, THEME, BENEFICIARY.Out of these instances, 74.81% use the preposition of. In CLUVI, 11.71% ofthe examples were ver-bal, from which the preposition of has a coverage of 82.20%. The many-to-many...
... noun vs. the number ofthe head nouns of conjuncts (e.g. dogs and mud =PLURAL,SINGULAR)N of N constructions:2D the number ofthe targetnoun (N) vs. the type ofthe Nin an N of Nconstruction ... such as goods. They can nei-ther be denumerated nor modified by much. Many of these nouns, such as clothes, use the plural formeven as modifiers (a clothes horse). The wordclothes cannot be ... information for 63,581 nouns. The classifiers found a match for 4,982 ofthe nouns. The predicted countability was judged correct 94.6% of the time. This is marginally above the level of matchbetween...
... outline of how a descrip- tion of speaker-reference can ser~e as a source of em- pirical support to a theory of speech acts. However, much more research must take place to flesh out the theoretical ... Other signals oftheinterpretationof intent need to be identified to explain how the expertis "OK, now start pumping" communicates ... deliberately av- oided problems of computation here, but hope the panel will discuss these issues, especially the utility of computational mode is to ethnographers of conversation. Acknowledgements:...
... adverbial. In these cases, what is sited by TF is the beginning ofthe interval. What in turn sites the RT ofthe main clause is the end ofthe interval. The processing ofthe first two clauses ... point N in the discourse, there is one node of e/s structure that provides a context for theinterpretation of the RT ofthe next ctause. I will call it the temporal focus or TF. There are ... Rather, it is the RT ofthe second clause: its ET is interpreted as prior to that because the clause is in the past perfect tense (see above). Having said that it is the RT of tense whose interpretation...
... description ofthe objects while the A-Box contains the set ofthe assertions on the objects. The former corresponds to the ability of describing by the use of NPs, and the latter to that of constructing ... to use the notion of predicate to interpret this complex process as well as the other possible interpretation ofthe adjective: the one corresponding to tile notion of "type of& quot; ... contain other symbolic systems. The task ofthe ~JM is mainly to hold hypotheses to be mapped onto the LT~! which requires the cooperation of several interpreters. The Introduction of a larger...
... in-termediate form of representation that represents a‘context-free’ semantics ofthe expression. The role ofthe recognition process is then tocompute as much ofthe semantic content of a tem-poral ... wedistinguish the two steps ofthe process in terms of the extent to which they make use of contextual in-formation in computing values. Then, recognitionis that phase which makes use only of expression-internal ... tem-poral expression as can be determined on the basis of the expression itself, producing an intermediatepartial representation ofthe semantics. The role of the interpretation process is to ‘fill in’...
... intensification of them, are unavoidable.57 At the end of his treatment ofthe “Law ofthe Tendency ofthe Rate of Profit to Fall” in Part Three of Volume Three of Capital Marx links the rupture ofthe ... macro theory. The gross rate of profit is the ratio of interest plus rent plus the profit of industrial and commercial enterprises to invested capital. The net rate of profit is the ratio of industrial ... tendencies ofthe gross rate of profit to fall at some point in every expansion. The integration of these two phenomena is Marx’s theory of crisis. Neither one theorized in isolation from the other...
... Processing. Dept. of Computer Science TR-70, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. Reinhart, T;mya [1976] The Syntactic Domain of Anaphora. unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Foreign ... Mode/ Of Children's Slot 7 Comprehension. M.I.T.A.I. Lab TR-266. Chmnsky, N. [1976] Conditions on Rules o[ Grammar. Linguistic Aqi,!ys_~is Voh,ne 2, p. 303-351. Orosz, Barb;ira [1977] The ... LinBuistics, M.I.T. Rieger, Charles J. [1974] Conceptual Memory: A Theory and Compufer Program for Processing Ihe Meaning Content of Natural Language Utterances. Stanford Artificial Intelligence...
... the effects ofthe crisis in the deficit countries, where, in the absence of nominal exchange rate depreciation, the adjustment ofthe balance of payments must be carried by variations in the ... transactions among the euro area economies increased by roughly 40 percent following the adoption ofthe euro.17 At the same time, financial liberalization and the process of adoption ofthe euro brought ... INTEGRATION/DEREGULATION IN EUROPE AND THE EURO The road to financial integration in Europe began in early 1957 with the signing ofthe Treaty of Rome, which set out the basics for the creation of a European single...
... e2)pret→cause(e1, e2)rlt) The Rate VNMA transfers the qualitative rate of progress of events in the source domain to the qual-itative rate of progress of its mappee:Rate: ∀e, r(rate(e, ... the importance of relations between text segments indiscourse interpretation. In fact, the incorporation of the above types of information ties in well with the SDRT (Asher and Lascarides, 2003) view of language ... source domain reasoning captures the in-teraction ofthe various sources of knowledge usedto infer causation and rate in the pretence. Further-more, studying the interaction between VNMAs anddiscourse...
... cor-rect when any part ofthe sentence expresses all of the relations described by the query. The modality of sentences was not distinguished, except in the case of Query 8. These evaluation criteria ... n-precision, which denotes the precision of the keyword search, in which the same number,n, of outputs is taken as the semantic search. The table also gives the relative recall ofthe semanticsearch, ... effect ofthe event ex-pression ontology. The results for X-3 indicate the maximum performance ofthe current system.This table shows that the time required for the se-mantic search for the first...
... approach, the characteristics of the lexical ontology MeSH, the use of a corpus to examine the problem space, the method of determining the rela-tions, the accuracy ofthe results, and the problem of ... paraphrasing the relation between the nouns, and seeing if that paraphrase was the same for all the NCsin the group. If it was the same, then the current levels of the CP were considered to be the correct ... groupedtogether, we calculated the number of MeSH senses forwords at different levels ofthe hierarchy. Table 1 showsa histogram ofthe number of senses for the first noun of all the unique...
... limiting the range of pos-sible input limits the contentful talk that the stu-dents are expected to produce, and therefore maylimit the overall effectiveness ofthe system.Most ofthe existing ... by the parser and a set of consistency checks to de-termine whether an interpretation is sufficiently reliable.44 The content ofthe bottom out is the same as in the baseline, except that the ... a gap in the circuit”. Thus, the stu-dents are never given any indication of whetherthey have been understood or not. The full policy acts differently depending on the analysis ofthe student...
... discusses all modes of transport from the European Union to these third countries and viceversa.( 3)Ok – so the affix on the verb is the trigger and the NP is the target. . . . No; the other way round( ... think the text needs to be lookedat because in the original it is the other way round to how itappears in the English text .”6 The reason for this split is that the English equivalents of the ... type-compatiblemodifier of another argument, as in (2). Proposi-tion swap (4) inverts the order ofthe two clauses.In addition to thethe pattern matching tests, the Argument and the Proposition swap...