The Olusuba Noun Class System

Bootstrapping Noun Groups Using Closed-Class Elements Only

The identification of noun groups in text is a well researched task and serves as a pre-step for other natural language processing tasks, such as the extraction of keyphrases or technical terms. We present a first version of a noun group chunker that, given an unannotated text corpus, adapts itself to the domain at hand in an unsupervised way. Our approach is inspired by findings from cognitive...

German Noun Class as a Nominal Protection Device

Acquisition System for Arabic Noun Morphology

Many papers have discussed different aspects of Arabic verb morphology. Some of them used patterns; others used patterns and affixes. But very few have discussed Arabic noun morphology particularly for nouns that are not derived from verbs. In this paper we describe a learning system that can analyze Arabic nouns to produce their morphological information and their paradigms with respect to bot...

Noun Phrase Recognition by System Combination

The performance of machine learning algorithms can be improved by combining the output of different systems. In this paper we apply this idea to the recognition of noun phrases. We generate different classifiers by using different representations of the data. By combining the results with voting techniques described in (Van Halteren et al., 1998) we manage to improve the best reported performan...

problems and strategies of translating persian lexical collocations into english: the case of noun-verb and noun-adjective collocations

در محیط های دانشگاهی ایران ، آموزش ترجمه واژگان هم آیند که به منزله امری لاینفک برای دانش جویان رشته مترجمی زبان می باشد، تا حدود زیادی نادیده گرفته شده است . این واقعیت باعث شده است تا دانش جویان رشته مترجمی زبان در ترجمه ی واژگان هم آیند اشتباهات بسیاری مرتکب شوند. این پژوهش توجه ویژه ای به ترجمه واژگان هم آیند داشته است. برای مشخص نمودن مشکلات و استراتژی های مورد استفاده ی دانش جویان در ترجم...