In tune with the recent developments in the automatic retrieval of text semantics, this paper is an attempt to extract one of the most fundamental semantic units from natural language text. The context is intuitively extracted from typed dependency structures basically depicting dependency relations instead of Part-Of-Speech tagged representation of the text. The dependency relations imply deep...

Corpus data has proven to be useful for dealing with ambiguities in NLP. A number of studies, for example, have deal with disambiguating English PP attachments, using corpus data (Hindle and Rooth (1993), Brill and Resnik (1994), Steina and Nagao (1997), Ratnaparkhi (1998), and Pantel and Lin (2000), among others). This paper explores a novel approach to resolving ambiguities associated with –i...

Over the course of two summer projects, we developed a general purpose natural language system which advances the state-of-the-art in several areas. The system contains demonstrated advancements in part-of-speech tagging, end-of-sentence detection, and coreference resolution. In addition, we believe that we have strong maximal noun phrase detection, and subject-verb-object recognition and a pat...

In three experiments, we investigated whether the production of subject-verb number agreement is affected by the phonological realization of grammatical information. Speakers repeated and completed German or Dutch noun phrases along the lines of The position against the demonstrations. We varied the number of the subject noun (position) and the local noun (demonstrations), as well as the number...

Much literature in syntax has assumed that all noun phrases are categorically headed by the determiner or the noun, with well-formedness categorial in nature. In this paper I develop a theory of noun phrase structure in which both categories project noun phrases, arguing that this better fits the indeterminacy of the criteria often cited for determining headedness (Zwicky, 1985, inter alia). Th...

1.1 Background Since Steven Abney's 1987 MIT dissertation, The English Noun Phrase in Its Sentential Aspect, the socalled DP Hypothesis has gained acceptance in the eld of Government and Binding (GB) syntax. This hypothesis proposes that a nominal expression is headed by a determiner that takes a noun phrase as its complement. The preexisting NP Hypothesis, on the other hand, diagrams nominal e...

Japanese has many noun phrase patterns of the type A no B consisting of two nouns A and B with an adnominal particle no. As the semantic relations between the two nouns in the noun phrase are not made explicit, the interpretation of the phrases depends mainly on the semantic characteristics of the nouns. This paper describes the semantic diversity of A no B and a method of semantic analysis for...