Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of Modal Adjectives

Semantic Clustering of Adjectives and Verbs Using their Syntactic Patterns

The idea that the syntactic behaviour of words is connected with their meaning has been the assumption behind research in elds such as lexical semantics and automatic clustering of words based on statistical methods. In particular much work has been done to describe the relation between the semantic characteristics of verbs and their syntactic patterns, among many Fillmore (1970) and Levin (199...

Semantic Clustering of Adjectives and Verbs Based on Syntactic Patterns

In this paper we show that some of the syntactic patterns in an NLP lexicon can be used to identify semantically ”similar” adjectives and verbs. We define semantic similarity on the basis of parameters used in the literature to classify adjectives and verbs semantically. The semantic clusters obtained from the syntactic encodings in the lexicon are evaluated by comparing them with semantic grou...

German Adverbial Adjectives: Syntactic Position and Semantic Interpretation

Semantic and syntactic aspects of score function

In a Machine Translation System (MTS), the number of possible analyses for a given sentence is largely dve to the ambiguous characteristics of the source language. In this paper, a mechanism, called "Score Function", is proposed for measuring the "quality" of the ambiguous syntax trees such that the one that best fits interpretation by human is selected. It is featured by incorporating the obje...

modal system in persian

in the present paper, we are to put forth a paradigm for the systematic study of modality in persian.with this end in view, we consider modality as a linguistic phenomenon that can be expressed at the level of sentence, at the level of constituents smaller than sentence and/or at the level of discourse. in such a system where sentential modality, sub-sentential modality and discourse modality a...