Previous research has shown that syntactic features are the most informative features in automatic verb classification. We investigate their optimal characteristics by comparing a range of feature sets extracted from data where the proportion of verbal arguments and adjuncts is controlled. The data are obtained from different versions of VALEX [1] – a large SCF lexicon for English which was acq...

Thoracotomy is widely recognised as one of the most painful surgical procedures. The combination of extensive tissue dissection and dynamic respiratory movement postoperatively makes post-thoracotomy pain control particularly challenging. In the short term, inadequate analgesia is associated with respiratory complications, poor mobilisation, delayed discharge and respiratory infections. More im...

Oral cancer is the 8 th most common cancer in males and the 15 th most common in females in the United States. Each year, it affects approximately 22,000 Americans and results in approximately 5300 deaths. The five-year survival rate of oral cancer remains low (53% to 60%) for the past three decades and delayed diagnosis has been suggested to be one of the major reasons. The detection and diagn...

This document describes a sizable grammar of English written in the TAG formalism and implemented for use with the XTAG system. This report and the grammar described herein supersedes the TAG grammar described in an earlier 1995 XTAG technical report. The English grammar described in this report is based on the TAG formalism which has been extended to include lexicalization, and unification-bas...