We describe the SEMEX question-answering system and report its performance in the TREC 2005 Question Answering track. Since this was SEMEX's first year participating in the TREC evaluations, implementation teething pains were expected and indeed encountered. Nevertheless, performance against difficult factoid and list questions was supportive of the question answering approach that was implemen...

This paper (a) presents a fragment of a logic of conversation with some philosophical basis (b) attempts to model and explain differences and properties of wa and go, notably the so called Unagi-Bun, the comparative (contrastive) readings of wa and uniqueness (completelist) readings of go (c) brings inner piece to those who wisely do not react it. 1 Basic examples The fundamental intuition is t...

Acquisition of semantic information is necessary for proper understanding of natural language text. Such information is often domain-speclfic in nature and must be acquized from the domain. This causes a problem whenever a natural fanguage processing (NLP) system is moved from one domain to another. The portability of an NLP system can be improved if these semantic features can be acquired with...

Modern Persian conjugation makes use of five periphrastic constructions. We contrast the properties of these five constructions and argue that they call for different analyses. We propose contrasting analyses relying on the combination of an HPSG approach to feature geometry and syntactic combination, and an approach to paradigm organization and morphological exponence based on Paradigm Functio...

The antimicrobial activity of three root canal sealers on five standard bacteria strains was tested Introduction The root canal sealers have antimicrobial activity against some bacteria Material and Method The antimicrobial activity of three root canal sealers was tested against five standard bacteria strains Results The tones of inhibition were greatest with Endomethasone against all of the te...

According to the Projection Principle (Chomsky 1981), expletives have no semantic content and thus cannot occur in theta-marked positions. However, there are many examples where expletive it appears as a direct object, in violation of the Projection Principle. The various attempts that have been made to account for such cases (e.g. the case-based analysis of Authier (1991), the predication anal...

Linguistic convention allows speakers various options. Evidence is accumulating that the various options are preferred in different contexts yet the criteria governing the selection of the appropriate form are often far from obvious. Most researchers who attempt to discover the factors determining a preference rely on the linguistic analysis and statistical modeling of data extracted from large...

English. In this paper we describe our approach to EVALITA 2016 SENTIPOLC task. We participated in all the subtasks with constrained setting: Subjectivity Classification, Polarity Classification and Irony Detection. We developed a tandem architecture where Long Short Term Memory recurrent neural network is used to learn the feature space and to capture temporal dependencies, while the Support V...

This document describes a sizable grammar of English written in the TAG formalism and implemented for use with the XTAG system. This report and the grammar described herein supersedes the TAG grammar described in [Abeill e et al., 1990]. The English grammar described in this report is based on the TAG formalism developed in [Joshi et al., 1975], which has been extended to include lexicalization...

Most L2 learners cannot process a second language as native speakers do because of their less automatic syntactic processing ability. In this article, the author reports two experiments that used a word-by-word self-paced reading task to examine how Japanese language learners of English process English prepositional phrases. The study also examined whether these learners could improve their syn...