Survey research is sometimes regarded as an easy research approach. However, as with any other research approach and method, it is easy to conduct a survey of poor quality rather than one of high quality and real value. This paper provides a checklist of good practice in the conduct and reporting of survey research. Its purpose is to assist the novice researcher to produce survey work to a high...

BACKGROUND To date, all investigations on the relationship between smoking and perceived level of meaning in life have used cross-sectional designs. Therefore, the purpose of the present prospective study, conducted with a four-year time lag, was to test the predictive power of the life meaning construct concerning changes in smoking status. METHODS The data of 4,294 respondents (40.3% male, ...

This paper approaches the challenge of adapting coreference resolution to different coreference phenomena and mention-border definitions when there is no access to large training data in the desired target scheme. We take a configurable, rule-based approach centered on dependency syntax input, which we test by examining coreference types not covered in benchmark corpora such as OntoNotes. These...

We address the question what it takes to define a correct probabilistic model for syntactic natural language processing. We focus on one particular theory of syntax, called dependency syntax, and develop a framework for developing probabilistic model for that linguistic theory. Subsequently, we review existing models of probabilistic dependency syntax and show some problematic aspects of these ...

Chalmers’s philosophical work exploits a distinctive version of two-dimensionalism, a formal modal framework from the 1960s and 1970s that one can use to define two kinds of possible worlds semantic values. Chalmers presents this as the best form of a Fregean account of content. One of the principal aims of Constructing the World is to provide its metaphysical foundations. Chalmers presents him...

From the parsing point of view, the derivation tree in TAG [hereafter DT] is seen as the "history" of the derivation but also as a linguistic representation, closer to semantics, that can be the basis of a further analysis. Because in TAG the elementary trees are lexicalized and localize the predicate-arguments relations, several works have compared the DT to a structure involving dependencies ...

The aim of this paper is to compare the discourse structures proposed in RST, SDRT and dependency DAGs which extend the semantic level of MTT for discourses. The key question is the following: do these formalisms allow the representation of all the discourse structures which correspond to felicitous discourses and exclude those which correspond to infelicitous discourses? Hence the term of “str...

Semantic Orientation refers to the positive or negative attitude, standpoint or opinion on a certain person, object or affair. It is of degree diversity and combinability. Rule-based computation of SO for Chinese sentence, after pre-processing the input sentence in lexical and dependency syntax analysis, takes advantage of the syntax analysis results and combines the pre-compiled dictionary res...

We describe the design, development, and API for two discourse parsers for Rhetorical Structure Theory. The two parsers use the same underlying framework, but one uses features that rely on dependency syntax, produced by a fast shift-reduce parser, whereas the other uses a richer feature space, including both constituentand dependency-syntax and coreference information, produced by the Stanford...