This study aims to analyze and record the number of words with noun suffixes in a corpus produced by learners Spanish as second language. Obtaining suffix index is utmost importance draw conclusions about both, nominalizations percentage occurrences coincident well idiosyncratic forms. The based on theoretical framework interlanguage hypothesis within theories language acquisition latest resear...

This paper describes the Chinese NomBank Project, the goal of which is to annotate the predicate-argument structure of nominalized predicates in Chinese. The Chinese Nombank extends the general framework of the English and Chinese Proposition Banks to the annotation of nominalized predicates and adds a layer of semantic annotation to the Chinese Treebank. We first outline the scope of the work ...

The Termolator is a high-performing terminology extraction system, which will soon be available as open source software. The Termolator combines several different approaches to get superior coverage and accuracy. The system identifies potential instances of terminology using a chunking procedure, similar to noun group chunking, but favoring chunks that contain out-of-vocabulary words, nominaliz...

This paper focuses on a particular type of abusive language, targeting expressions in which typically neutral adjectives take on pejorative meaning when used as nouns compare gay people to the gays. We first collect and analyze a corpus of hand-curated, expert-annotated pejorative nominalizations for four target adjectives: female, gay, illegal, and poor. We then collect a second corpus of auto...

One of the central issues in studies of reference is the relationship between morpho-syntactic form and the accessibility of discourse referents. However, most of the work in this area has been concerned primarily with reference to entities; considerably less work has addressed the relationship between syntactic form and the discourse accessibility of events. In this paper, we consider forms of...

While the choice of morphological markers is lexically determined and highly idiosyncratic – fahren/Fahrt (drive/drive) vs. erklären/Erklärung (explain/explanation)-, syntactic combination follows general rules: the verb assigns nominative and accusative case to the subject and direct object, the derived noun systematically requires genitive case for both complements. These observations exhaust...