This paper explores the relationshiDs between a computational meory of temporal representation (as developed by James Alien) and a Iormal linguiStiC theory Of tense (as developed by NorOert Hornstem) and aspect. It aims tO prowde exphcit answers to four lundamental Questions: (1) what ts the computational lustd~cat=on for me or=mmves of a hngu=stIc theory; (2) what ~s the computational explanat...

The problem discussed in this study is the cohesion contained lyrics of song entitled Gajah album by Tulus. will be used as alternative teaching materials high school. purpose to describe album's songs and determine whether or not worthy being an material method descriptive qualitative. results found 59 data on grammatical lexical aspects which include references, substitutions, ellipsis, conju...

the most important and practical phase of analyzing the linguistic errors of second language learners is to find the solutions to decrease these errors. to that end, the present study examined translation strategy to decrease the number of grammatical and lexical errors of chinese language learners learning persian. twelve chinese language learners were asked to write a text in two stages. firs...

In this paper we describe the semantic interpretation process of utterances in a spoken dialog system for train table inquiries. Spoken dialogs show a large set of problems in human–machine–communication like stops, corrections, filled pauses, non grammatical sentences, ellipses, unconnected phrases etc. In our robust approach we are able to handle a substantial amount of them. While the princi...

In this paper we propose a method for characterizing development in large longitudinal corpora. The method has the following three features: (i) it suggests how to represent development without assuming predefined stages; (ii) it includes caregiver speech/child-directed speech; (iii) it uses statistical association measures for investigating co-occurrence data. We exemplify the implementation o...

In this paper we shall point to some principles of neural computation as they have been derived from experimental and theoretical studies primarily on vision. We argue that these principles are well suited to explain some characteristics of the linguistic function of semantic concept recognition. Computational models built on these principles have been applied to morphological-grammatical categ...

Russian requires speakers of the language to conceptualize events using temporal language devices such as Aktionsarten and aspect, which relate to particular profiles and characteristics of events such as whether the event just started, whether it is ongoing or it is a repeated event. This chapter explores how such temporal features of events can be processed and learned by robots through groun...

Aspect is undoubtedly the most capricious grammatical category of the Russian language. It has often been asserted as a mystery accessible only to native speakers, leaving all the others lost in its apparently infinite clutter. Recent work in cognitive linguistics has tried to bring order to the seeming chaos of the Russian aspectual system. But these approaches have not been operationalized so...

Analyses of linguistic corpora have revealed that natural language is to a very large extent based on (semi-)preconstructed phrases. Drawing on corpus-based approaches to the description of such lexico-grammatical patterns in language use, the present study puts into perspective the question of why one and the same lexical item occurs in different patterns. The question of pattern selection (i....

This paper describes a fully automatic twostage machine learning architecture that learns temporal relations between pairs of events. The first stage learns the temporal attributes of single event descriptions, such as tense, grammatical aspect, and aspectual class. These imperfect guesses, combined with other linguistic features, are then used in a second stage to classify the temporal relatio...