This paper focuses on the generation of case markers for free word order languages that use case markers as phrasal clitics for marking the relationship between the dependentnoun and its head. The generation of such clitics becomes essential task especially when translating from fixed word order languages where syntactic relations are identified by the positions of the dependent-nouns. To addre...

Abstract This paper discusses the morpho-syntax of phrasal proper names like Deutsche Bahn ‘German Railway’ and Norske Skog ‘Norwegian Forest’ in German Norwegian. As regards determiner elements, there are three types German: some do not have a definite article, do, yet others exhibit possessive. Depending on syntactic context, first two pattern same as presence or absence article but contrast ...

This paper provides a discussion of selected results of a pilot study founding a tempo project. This project potentially determines the phonetic locations for altering the speech rate for English synthetic speech in order to replicate a proposed natural pattern of tempo modulations based upon phrasal foci. A male educated speaker read Canadian English sentences at 3 speech rates and with varied...

In this paper, we describe a system and methods for finding structural correspondences from the paired dependency structures of a source sentence and its translation in a target language. The system we have developed finds word correspondences first, then finds phrasal correspon(tences based on word correspondences. We have also developed a GUI system with which a user can check and correct til...

Traditional models of distributional semantics suffer from computational issues such as data sparsity for individual lexemes and complexities of modeling semantic composition when dealing with structures larger than single lexical items. In this work, we present a frequencydriven paradigm for robust distributional semantics in terms of semantically cohesive lineal constituents, or motifs. The f...

Compositional vector space models of meaning promise new solutions to stubborn language understanding problems. This paper makes two contributions toward this end: (i) it uses automaticallyextracted paraphrase examples as a source of supervision for training compositional models, replacing previous work which relied on manual annotations used for the same purpose, and (ii) develops a contextawa...

There are a number of frameworks for modelling argumentation in logic. They incorporate a formal representation of individual arguments and techniques for comparing conflicting arguments. A common assumption for logic-based argumentation is that an argument is a pair 〈Φ, α〉 where Φ is minimal subset of the knowledgebase such that Φ is consistent and Φ entails the claim α. However, real argument...

We propose lexical rather than phrasal amalgamation of contextual features. On a theoretical level, the lexicalization of context naturally follows other recent revisions concerned with lexicalization of set-valued features (nonlocal features, quantiier storage). On a computational level, it ooers advantages in using HPSG with head-driven generation algorithms. On a linguistic level, we sketch ...

The most critical issue in generating and recognizing paraphrases is development of wide-coverage paraphrase knowledge. Previous work on paraphrase acquisition has collected lexicalized pairs of expressions; however, the results do not ensure full coverage of the various paraphrase phenomena. This paper focuses on productive paraphrases realized by general transformation patterns, and addresses...