We explore learning prepositionalphrase attachment in Dutch, to use it as a filter in prosodic phrasing. From a syntactic treebank of spoken Dutch we extract instances of the attachment of prepositional phrases to either a governing verb or noun. Using cross-validated parameter and feature selection, we train two learning algorithms, TB I and RIPPER, 011 making this distinction, based on unigra...

Abstract This paper addresses the syntactic and semantic analysis of nominal measurement structures like two liters black coffee in German. German allows case-marking on substance noun phrase to vary: it can appear genitive case or same as measure liter . The choice lacks import with absolute measures , but a distinction does arise for proportional percent interpretation case-matching configura...

This paper presents a hybrid method for extracting Chinese noun phrase collocations that combines a statistical model with rule-based linguistic knowledge. The algorithm first extracts all the noun phrase collocations from a shallow parsed corpus by using syntactic knowledge in the form of phrase rules. It then removes pseudo collocations by using a set of statistic-based association measures (...

In general, English gerunds such as (We were talking about) John having a sabbatical combine the internal characteristics of a clause with the external characteristics of a noun phrase. Previous analyses have tried to recognise the mixed character of gerunds by assigning them two separate nodes, one verbal and the other nominal, but all such analyses are problematic. This paper proposes an anal...

An eye tracking experiment was conducted in order to investigate the role of verb information in resolving structural ambiguity during sentence comprehension. Reading time was measured on sentences containing temporarily ambiguous noun phrases (e.g. "The athlete revealed the problem") that were continued as tensed sentence (S) complements or noun phrase (NP) complements. Ambiguous noun phrases ...

Possessive pronouns are used as determiners in English when no equivalent would be used in a Japanese sentence with the same meaning. This paper proposes a heuristic method of generating such possessive pronouns even when there is no equivalent in the Japanese. The method uses information about the use of possessive pronouns in English treated as a lexical property of nouns, in addition to cont...

The rapidly expanding size of data makes it difficult to extricate information and store as computerized knowledge. Relation extraction term play a crucial role in resolving this issue. Automatically finding concealed relationship between terms that appear the text can help people build computer-based knowledge more quickly. Term is required one components because identifying significant essent...