Teaching simple and compound sentences with computers at intermediate level

Organophosphorus Compound Induced 'Intermediate Syndrome'

Negating compound sentences

How do reasoners negate compound sentences, such as conjunctions of the form A and B and disjunctions of the form A or B or both? A theory based on mental models posits that reasoners negate each clause independently, and enumerate the various possibilities consistent with the negation. It makes a novel prediction: negations of conjunctions should be more difficult to comprehend than negations ...

Simple Sentences , Substitutions , and

Many competent speakers initially judge that (i) is true and (ii) is false, though they know that (iii) is true. (i) Superman leaps more tall buildings than Clark Kent. (ii) Superman leaps more tall buildings than Superman. (iii) Superman is identical with Clark Kent. Semantic explanations of these intuitions say that (i) and (ii) really can differ in truthvalue. Pragmatic explanations deny thi...

Identification and Separation of Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences in Punjabi Language

Sentence identification is one of the basic applications of the Natural Language Processing. In this paper we have explored the different types of sentences present in Punjabi language. Some detail of the internal structure of these sentences has also been discussed. We have also proposed an algorithm for identification of simple, compound and complex sentences. The work done on the compound an...

Simple, readable sub-sentences

We present experiments using a new unsupervised approach to automatic text simplification, which builds on sampling and ranking via a loss function informed by readability research. The main idea is that a loss function can distinguish good simplification candidates among randomly sampled sub-sentences of the input sentence. Our approach is rated as equally grammatical and beginner reader appro...