Across languages subject-verb agreement errors have been established when subjects are producing complex (NP PP) noun-phrases (see Bock, 1995, for an overview). Very recently, Haskell & MacDonalds (2002) proposed a locality-based principle, the principle of proximity, to explain a variety of agreement errors in production. They base they argument partly on preferences in verb number marking in ...

This paper presents a new approach for automatically determining a semantic representation of medical narratives (essentially reports of diagnostic imaging and surgical procedures). It is based on a multiaxial nomenclature (Wingert Nomenclature WNC) and language engineering technologies: a concept-based morpheme lexicon and an indexing algorithm for noun phrases. Founded on this, sets of indice...

Discourses are defined as ideas conveyed by humans through language using a series of sentences in co-text and context. Co-text is the cohesive coherent relationship between written words, phrases, sentences, paragraph. Generally, contexts understood more broadly even beyond boundaries language, therefore, it considered non- linguistic. It also circumstances behind an idea used reference for un...

The paper examines the influence of application instructive musical exercises on better and more correct pronunciation certain sentences in English. In relation to type (interrogative form questions, affirmative with adjuncts if-clauses) intonation words phrases within sentences, a melody was specially composed for each sentence, primary criterion matching melodic flow sentence. training implem...

This study described preliminary work with the Supplemented Speech Recognition (SSR) system for speakers with dysarthria. SSR incorporated automatic speech recognition optimized for dysarthric speech, alphabet supplementation, and word prediction. Participants included seven individuals with a range of dysarthria severity. Keystroke savings using SSR averaged 68.2% for typical sentences and 67....

This paper introduces Contextual Salience (CoSal), a simple and explicit measure of a word’s importance in context which is a more theoretically natural, practically simpler, and more accurate replacement to tf-idf. CoSal supports very small contexts (20 or more sentences), out-of context words, and is easy to calculate. A word vector space generated with both bigram phrases and unigram tokens ...

This paper shows how the transformational relationship between HAVE-sentences and OF=phrases is used to represent data contained in sentences with HAVE as the main verb in the context of an information system using natural language to access a relational data base. An overview of the system first establishes the framework in which natural language processing is done. Then ways of representing H...

This paper explores the impact of light filtering on automatic key phrase extraction (AKE) applied to Broadcast News (BN). Key phrases are words and expressions that best characterize the content of a document. Key phrases are often used to index the document or as features in further processing. This makes improvements in AKE accuracy particularly important. We hypothesized that filtering out ...

Existing work on the acquisition of syntax has been concerned mainly with the early stages of syntactic development. In the present study we examine later syntactic development in children. Also, existing work has focused on commonalities in the emergence of syntax. Here we explore individual differences among children and their relation to variations in language input. In Study 1 we find subst...

In this paper, we combine techniques from rule-based and corpus-based MT in a hybrid approach. We only use a dictionary, basic analytical resources and a monolingual targetlanguage corpus in order to enable the construction of an MT system for lesser-resourced languages. Statistical and example-based systems usually do not involve a lot of linguistic notions. Cutting up sentences in linguistica...