In the current project, we aim at developing an approach for automatically answering whyquestions (why-QA). In the present paper, we investigate the relevance of linguistic analysis for why-QA. We focus on two tasks: the use of syntactic information for answer type determination and the use of discourse structure for the extraction of possible answers from retrieved documents. For answer type d...

Syntactic processing typically engages left inferior frontal gyrus and posterior middle temporal gyrus, and damage to these regions is associated with syntactic deficits. What has not been directly determined, however, is whether it is the effective connectivity between these regions - and therefore also the integrity of the white matter tracts that connect them - that underpins successful synt...

semiotic examination and stylistics in both phonetic level and syntactic level of sura nouh            danesh mohammadi rakati *   alireza mohammad rezaei **      abstract      stylistic is one of the important methods in linguistics, that many of the linguistic researches about quran are based on it. this article seeks to use statistical methods to explore the implications of language in sura ...

Syntactic regularities are repetitive structures of axioms in the asserted form of an ontology. The Regularity Inspector for Ontologies (RIO) is a framework for detecting such regularities in ontologies using cluster analysis. Detection of syntactic regularities can be used to identify parts of an ontology that have a similar syntactic structure, and could therefore provide an intuition of thei...

The meaning of an idiomatic expression cannot be transparently worked out from the meanings of its constituent words due to its figurative and unpredictable nature. Consequently, the syntactic composition and the structural paradigm of an idiomatic expression are supposed to be the same in every context. However, this is not the case in the institutionalized second language varieties of English...

Recent research in the area of Second Language Acquisition has proposed that bilinguals and L2 learners show syntactic indeterminacy when syntactic properties interface with other cognitive domains. Most of the research in this area has focused on the pragmatic use of syntactic properties while the investigation of compliance with a grammatical rule at syntax-related interfaces has not received...

A study is presented on the effects of discourse-semantic and lexical-syntactic information during spoken sentence processing. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were registered while subjects listened to discourses that ended in a sentence with a temporary syntactic ambiguity. The prior discourse-semantic information biased toward one analysis of the temporary ambiguity, whereas the lexical...

How is syntactic analysis implemented by the human brain during language comprehension? The current study combined methods from computational linguistics, eyetracking, and fMRI to address this question. Subjects read passages of text presented as paragraphs while their eye movements were recorded in an MRI scanner. We parsed the text using a probabilistic context-free grammar to isolate syntact...

The analysis of spatial relations among objects in an image is a important vision problem that involves both shape analysis and structural pattern recognition. In this paper, we propose a new approach to characterize the spatial relation along, an important feature of spatial configuration in space that has been overlooked in the literature up to now. We propose a mathematical definition of the...