Syntactic, or Lexical, Zero in Natural Language

Syntactic Analysis of Natural Language

1. Linguistic Basis for Computations . . . . . . .153 .1 Immediate Constituent Analysis ....... 154 .2 String Analysis ......... 154 .3 Lcft-to-Kight Scanning and Predictive Analysis .... 155 .4 Transformationul Analysis ........ 156 .5 Other Methods 156 2. A Procedure for Left-to-RightString Decomposition of Sentences . 157 2.1 Word-by-\Vord Formulation of String Structure .... 157 2.2 Indirec...

Lexical Issues in Natural Language Processing Lexical Issues in Natural Language Processing

Lexical Disambiguation in Natural Language Questions (NLQs)

Question processing is a fundamental step in a question answering (QA) application, and its quality impacts the performance of QA application. The major challenging issue in processing question is how to extract semantic of natural language questions (NLQs). A human language is ambiguous. Ambiguity may occur at two levels; lexical and syntactic. In this paper, we propose a new approach for reso...

Lexical Semantic Analysis in Natural Language Text

Computer programs that make inferences about natural language are easily fooled by the often haphazard relationship between words and their meanings. This thesis develops Lexical Semantic Analysis (LxSA), a general-purpose framework for describing word groupings and meanings in context. LxSA marries comprehensive linguistic annotation of corpora with engineering of statistical natural language ...

Large-scale connectionist natural language parsing using lexical semantic and syntactic knowledge

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