Predicting object mass nouns across languages

Metacognitive (Rending) Strategies Across Languages and Techniques

Count Nouns – Mass Nouns Neat Nouns – Mess Nouns

In this paper I propose and formalize a theory of the mass-count distinction in which the denotations of count nouns are built from non-overlapping generators, while the denotations of mass nouns are built from overlapping generators. Counting is counting of generators, and it will follow that counting is only correct on count denotations. I will show that the theory allows two kinds of mass no...

Predicting Pronouns across Languages with Continuous Word Spaces

Predicting pronouns across languages from a language with less variation to one with much more is a hard task that requires many different types of information, such as morpho-syntactic information as well as lexical semantics and coreference. We assumed that continuous word spaces fed into a multi-layer perceptron enriched with morphological tags and coreference resolution would be able to cap...

Mass Nouns and Plurals

Determinerless (or “bare”) mass and plural noun phrases also show a parallel alternation in interpretation, depending on the predicate with which they combine. If the predicate is stagelevel (in the terminology of Carlson 1977a,b), the noun phrase is understood as existentially quantified, as in (4)a. and b., which are roughly equivalent to Some water leaked into the floor and Some raccoons wer...

Mass nouns and plural logic

A dilemma put forward by Schein (1993) and Rayo (2002) suggests that, in order to characterize the semantics of plurals, we should not use predicate logic, but plural logic, a formal language whose terms may refer to several things at once. We show that a similar dilemma applies to mass nouns. If we use predicate logic and sets when characterizing their semantics, we arrive at a Russellian para...