One significant contribution of generative linguistics has been to our understanding 'movement,' which occurs when a word is linearized in position different from where it interpreted. Even though movement often considered syntactic phenomenon, some cases seem best analyzed prosodically, such as pronoun post-posing Irish (Bennett, Elfner, & McClosky 2016). We explore prosodically driven Nor...

This paper tests the usefulness of the category ‘intonation phrase’ for the analysis of natural conversation. It asks whether the intonation phrase is a relevant unit for participants, and if so, whether it is a prosodic, or indeed an interactional category. The data show that while participants do divide their speech into intonation phrase-like chunks, these chunks are not defined by intonatio...

The appropriate enforcement phrases used during occupational health and safety (OHS) inspection activities is a crucial factor to guarantee the compliance with OHS regulations in enterprises. However, few researchers have empirically investigated the issue of how enforcement phrases are processed. The present study explored the neural features of processing two types of enforcement phrases (sev...

・ This leads to the problem of structured matching of regions and phrases: (1) individual regions agree with their corresponding phrases. (2) visual relations among regions agree with textual relations among corresponding phrases. ・ For the task of phrase localization, we propose a structured matching of phrases and regions that encourages the semantic relations between phrases to agree with th...

A natural language parser that could extract noun phrases for all medical texts would be of great utility in analyzing content for information retrieval. We discuss the extraction of noun phrases from MEDLINE, using a general parser not tuned specifically for any medical domain. The noun phrase extractor is made up of three modules: tokenization; part-of-speech tagging; noun phrase identificati...

The present work describes a Phrasal Example Based Machine Translation system from English to Bengali that identifies the phrases in the input through a shallow analysis, retrieves the target phrases using a Phrasal Example base and finally combines the target language phrases employing some heuristics based on the phrase ordering rules for Bengali. The paper focuses on the structure of the nou...

Suggestions are made as to how phrase extraction algorithms should be adapted to handle gapped phrases. Such variable phrases are useful for many purposes, including the characterization of learner texts. The basic problem is that there is a combinatorial explosion of such phrases. Any reasonable program must start by putting the exponentially many phrases into equivalence classes (Yamamoto and...