... literary works.
Among those linguistic conventions, noun phrases, in the author’s mind, seem to cause
great deal of trouble when translatingnounphrases in general from the source language text ... 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...
... 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: Plural
nouns generally translate as plural nouns, while
singular nouns generally translate as singular
Preservation of prepositions: base preposi-
tional phrases within ... performed on,
e.g., noun- noun pair (Cao and Li, 2002) and named
entity translation (Al-Onaizan and Knight, 2002).
2 Noun Phrase Translation as a Subtask
In this work, we consider both nounphrases and
prepositional...
... 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...
... Japanese
noun phrases NP no NP (in Japanese).
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ety of Japan,
36(6):1441-1448.
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Table 1: Semantic relations in N1 no N2
Relation Noun Phrase ... roles of nouns.
Our approach using an ordinary dictionary
is similar to the approach used to creat Mind-
Net (Richardson et al., 1998). However, the se-
manitc analysis of nounphrases is ... analyzing
Japanese
N1 no N2
phrases based on a dictio-
nary, interpreting obscure phrases very clearly.
The method can be applied to the analysis of
compound nouns, like
baseball player....
... -
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. Both
express rule-like knowledge, but in different ways.
A generic noun phrase is a noun phrase that
does not refer to a ... have similar
extensions, i.e., include largely overlapping sets
of noun phrases. In fact, all of the examples
for generic nounphrases presented in this paper
would also be classified as generic ... people.
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Feature Description
Number sg, pl
Person 1, 2, 3
Countability ambig, no noun, count, uncount
Noun Type common, proper, pronoun
Determiner Type def, indef, demon
Granularity The number of edges...
... NPs are translated into both
noun noun and noun adjective compounds in the
target languages. For example, love affair translates
in Italian as storia d’amore or the noun adjective
compound relazione ... the
first 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 ... more
semantically ambiguous noun - noun pairs, the web-
based probabilistic model introduces a significant
number of false positives. Thus, the more abstract
the 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...