This paper proposes a dictionary-based method of recognizing and paraphrasing Japanese periphrastic and overlapping verb phrases. Periphrastic VP is a phrase in which the verb or the noun functions as an adverb, voice or aspect. Overlapping VP is a phrase in which there is an overlapping meaning between the verb and the noun. The result of our experiment showed that the method can deal with tho...

Finding the correct attachment site for prepositional phrases (PPs) is one of the hardest problems when parsing natural languages. An English sentence consisting of a subject, a verb, and a nominal object followed by a prepositional phrase is a priori ambiguous. The PP in sentence 1 is a noun attribute and needs to be attached to the noun, but the PP in 2 is an adverbial and thus part of the ve...

We examined the production of relative clauses in sentences with a complex noun phrase containing two possible attachment sites for the relative clause (e.g., "Someone shot the servant of the actress who was on the balcony."). On the basis of two corpus analyses and two sentence continuation tasks, we conclude that much research about this specific syntactic ambiguity has used complex noun phra...

Such genericity is a feature of entire sentences (or at least of entire clauses), and is not attributable to any subpart of the sentence, such as to the subject noun phrase or to the verb phrase. It is instead somehow an interaction between the two. This sets it apart from another type of genericity, which is attributed to the noun phrase’s referring to an abstract genus (or kind) and not as ma...

This paper introduces three machine learning approaches to noun phrase coreference resolution. The first of them gives a view of coreference resolution as a clustering task. The second one applies a noun phrase coreference system based on decision tree induction and the last one experiments with using the Bell tree to represent the search space of the coreference resolution problem. The knowled...