We present a novel approach to noun phrase lemmatisation where the main phase is cast as a tagging problem. The idea draws on the observation that the lemmatisation of almost all Polish noun phrases may be decomposed into transformation of singular words (tokens) that make up each phrase. We perform evaluation, which shows results similar to those obtained earlier by a rule-based system, while ...

In our system, noun phrases in the query are identified and classified into 4 types: proper names, dictionary phrases, simple phrases and complex phrases. A document has a phrase if all content words in a phrase are within a window of a certain size. The window sizes for different types of phrases are different. We consider phrases to be more important than individual terms. As a consequence, d...

We examined temporarily ambiguous coordination structures such as put the butter in the bowl and the pan on the towel. Minimal Attachment predicts that the ambiguous noun phrase the pan will be interpreted as a noun-phrase coordination structure because it is syntactically simpler than clausal coordination. Constraint-based theories assume that interpretations are the result of a constraint-sat...

Noun identifications are studied as 'anaphora'. Noun-noun relationships are ambiguous, as are noun-pronoun relations. Generally, nouns must match more 'antecedent' information than pronouns. But noun's 'antecedent' can be more remote. Therefore, the analysis scope of a noun-noun relationship will be larger than that of a noun-pronoun relationship. This expanded scope of analysis may result in e...

• Chinese modifier-noun idioms are processed as Multi-Constituent Units. MCUs represented lexically single units. Parafoveal processing operates over the whole MCU. likely to be and Units (MCUs, a multi-word unit with lexical representation, see Zang, 2019). 1-character verb 2-character noun structure foveally, but not parafoveally, (Yu et al., 2016), probably because only loosely constrains id...

Abstract This paper describes the gender system of Ubangi language Mba, which can be characterized by co-existence two different classification systems. The ‘formal agreement’ is tightly bound with nominal deriflection system, while ‘semantic contrast, emanates from a tripartite distinction in made between masculine humans, other animates, and inanimates. Whereas formal agreement manifested on ...

A great number of West Iranian languages Persian, different Kurdish dialects, Hawramani, Zazaki...share several aspects in their noun phrase structure: 1. The surface word order pattern is strongly head initial. Adjectival modifiers, the possessor NP, prepositional phrases and the relative clause follow the head noun in a strict order. The head noun may be preceded only by some determiners – if...

The concept of vowel grade by which morphological features in some IndoEuropean languages are signaled by change in the quality of the vowel of a given form has long been recognized. More recently, the term has also been applied to the variation in vowels that occur in some case-marking prepositional forms in Austronesian languages. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate some of the proces...

The present study investigates the prosodic realization of split noun sentences in Chinese, like ‘shu, wo mai le san ben. (Book, I buy ASP three CLAS. ‘I bought three books.’). The question and answer paradigm was used to induce sentences where the noun was either the topic or the focus. In the topic context, the question was of the form, ‘I heard you bought books and pencils. Is that true?’ In...

The article is a systematic, corpus-based account of Latin’s influence on the position Old English (OE) adnominal adjectives. While multiple studies phrase-level syntax suggest that source-text interference may have been partly responsible for placing adjective after head noun, this observation has so far received little quantitative underpinning. present offers detailed comparison OE target no...