Pengajaran noun-pronoun agreement bagi mahasiswa Business English

Variation in noun and pronoun frequencies in a sociohistorical corpus of English

Many corpus linguists make the tacit assumption that part-of-speech frequencies remain constant during the period of observation. In this article, we will consider two related issues: (1) the reliability of part-of-speech tagging in a diachronic corpus, and (2) shifts in tag ratios over time. The purpose is both to serve the users of the corpus by making them aware of potential problems, and to...

Inflectional Morphology Synthesis for Bengali Noun, Pronoun and Verb Systems

Morphological synthesis is an essential part of any natural language generation system. bengali is a highly inflectional language with more than 160 different inflected forms for verbs and 36 different forms for nouns, and 24 different forms for pronouns. Moreover, the choice and ordering of suffixes for nouns and structural changes in verb morphology are dependent on the type (animate/inanimat...

Moving spaces: Spelling alternation in English noun-noun compounds

Input driven constraints on plurals in English noun-noun compounds

Native English speakers include irregular plurals in English noun-noun compounds (e.g. mice chaser) more frequently than regular plurals (e.g. *rats chaser) (Gordon, 1985). This dissociation in inflectional morphology has been argued to stem from an internal and innate morphological constraint as it is thought that the input to which English speaking children are exposed is insufficient to sign...

Forging Agreement: Morphological Disambiguation of Noun Phrases

The paper argues that morphological disambiguation is a crucial step for assignment of dependency structures. Quantitative evaluation on a German corpus shows that morphological disambiguation of NPs together with syntactic heuristics yields unique morphological analyses for the assignment of dependency relations to German NPs in 77.08% of all cases.