We present a morphological tagger for Latin, called TTLab Latin Tagger based on Conditional Random Fields (TLT-CRF) which uses a large Latin lexicon. Beyond Part of Speech (PoS), TLT-CRF tags eight inflectional categories of verbs, adjectives or nouns. It utilizes a statistical model based on CRFs together with a rule interpreter that addresses scenarios of sparse training data. We present resu...

To investigate perceptual and neural correlates of future self-appraisals as a function of temporal distance, event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants (11 women, eight men) made judgments about the applicability of trait adjectives to their near future selves (i.e., one month from now) and their distant future selves (i.e., three years from now). Behavioral results indic...

Overview. This paper provides an account for patterns of conjunction of the adjectives of quantity (Q-adjectives) many and few with ordinary gradable adjectives, as in (1), and explores its consequences for the semantics of Q-adjectives and the elements they combine with. (1) a. Prof. Smith's many and important contributions to imaging science… b. The trees in the grove were many and tall c. Th...

arabic languages is not a foreign language for us as iranins is the language of our religion and islamic culture. thus to protect our religion and culture. we should learn it. because arabic is not our native language. so one way to learn it is through the comparison and contrast of structure and grammatical points of arabic and persian. this issue is very helpful in translating a text. this ar...

In the systemic framework, lexis has received little attention in comparison to grammar. The paper compares existing systemic approaches to lexis and outlines a model for describing lexical items from the viewpoint of realization of communicative intentions by lexical items using the systemic network of lexical choices. As an example of the approach, the paper attempts to describe contrastive l...

This paper investigates the way that lexical semantic properties of linguistic expressions influence vagueness, focusing on the interpretation of the positive (unmarked) form of gradable adjectives. I begin by developing a semantic analysis of the positive form of ‘relative’ gradable adjectives, expanding on previous proposals by further motivating a semantic basis for vagueness and by precisel...

We examined 2 hypotheses concerning the development of audience design by contrasting children with and without autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) in referential communication. The 2-stage hypothesis predicts that the ability to use contrastive size adjectives for ambiguity avoidance develops separately from and faster than the ability to avoid perspective-inappropriate descriptions for their add...

Computational approaches to inference and information extraction often assume that adjective-noun compounds maintain all the relevant properties of the unmodified noun. A significant portion of nonsubsective adjectives violate this assumption. We present preliminary work towards a classifier for these adjectives. We also compile a comprehensive list of 60 nonsubsective adjectives including thos...

Why do children learn nouns such as cup faster than dimensional adjectives such as big? Most explanations of this phenomenon rely on prior knowledge of the noun-adjective distinction or on the logical priority of nouns as the arguments of predicates. In this paper we examine an alternative account, one which relies instead on properties of the semantic categories to be learned and of the word l...