An Analysis of Emotions in Reversed Japanese Sentences and Malay Sentences with NIRS

Semantic Similarity Measures for Malay Sentences

The concept of semantic similarity is an important element in many applications such as information extraction, information retrieval, document clustering and ontology learning. Most of the previous works regarding semantic similarity measures have been traditionally defined between words or concepts (i.e. word-to-word similarity), thus ignoring the text or sentence that the concepts participat...

Analysis Of Japanese Sentences By Using Semantic And Contextual Information

Resolution of Indirect Anaphora in Japanese Sentences

A noun phrase can indirectly refer to an entity that has already been mentioned. For example, \I went into an old house last night. The roof was leaking badly and ..." indicates that \the roof" is associated with \an old house", which was mentioned in the previous sentence. This kind of reference (indirect anaphora) has not been studied well in natural language processing, but is important for ...

An Estimate of Referent of Noun Phrases in Japanese Sentences

In machine translation and man-machine dialogue, it is important to clarify referents of noun phrases. We present a method for determining the referents of noun phrases in Japanese sentences by using the referential properties, modifiers, and possessors of noun phrases. Since the Japanese language has no articles, it is difficult to decide whether a noun phrase has an antecedent or not. We had ...

Semantics of Complex Sentences in Japanese

The important part of semantics of complex sentence is captured as relations among semantic roles in subordinate and main clause respectively. However if there can be relations between every pair of semantic roles, the amount of computation to identify the relations that hold in the given sentence is extremely large. In this paper, for semantics of Japanese complex sentence, we introduce new pr...