Verb bias, or the tendency of a verb to appear with a certain type of complement, has been employed in psycholinguistic literature as a tool to test competing models of sentence processing. To date, the vast majority of sentence processing research involving verb bias has been conducted almost exclusively with monolingual speakers, and predominantly with monolingual English speakers, despite th...

Anyone familiar with the Sonobé module has probably assembled both the augmented octahedron and the augmented icosahedron Instructions for both appear in both Kasahara and Takahama and in Mukerji, and can also be found on most of the innumerable websites discoverable by googling the word “Sonobé”. Kasahara and Takahama give some sketchy instructions on how to build some other polyhedra with the...

Chuck Holland's draft proposal (RFC #360) is an excellent document, very complete and consistent. Since the final standard RJE protocol will be widely used on the Network, honing its definition now will save trouble and discontent later. Therefore, I will proceed to make a new suggestions and pick a few nits. 1. In my humble opinion, the command verb "BYE" is overly cute; I would find "QUIT" mu...

Lexicalized theories of syntax often assume that verb-structure regularities are mediated by lemmas, which abstract over variation in verb tense and aspect. German syntax seems to challenge this assumption, because verb position depends on tense and aspect. To examine how German speakers link these elements, a structural priming study was performed which varied syntactic structure, verb positio...

Complex Predicates or CPs are multiword complexes functioning as single verbal units. CPs are particularly pervasive in Hindi and other IndoAryan languages, but an usage account driven by corpus-based identification of these constructs has not been possible since single-language systems based on rules and statistical approaches require reliable tools (POS taggers, parsers, etc.) that are unavai...

This paper explains the automatic semantic interpretation of sentences. These sentences were selected for testing the verb predicates that we have been defining for WordNet 1.6 verb classes, and the algorithm that uses them. Semantic interpretation is performed for determining the meaning of the verb, or, verb predicate, its semantic roles, adjuncts, the attachment of postverbal prepositional p...

This paper introduces a rule-based classification of single-word and compound verbs into a statistical machine translation approach. By substituting verb forms by the lemma of their head verb, the data sparseness problem caused by highly-inflected languages can be successfully addressed. On the other hand, the information of seen verb forms can be used to generate new translations for unseen ve...