This paper presents a unification-based approach to Japanese honorifics based on a version of HPSG (Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar)ll]121. Utterance parsing is based on lexical specifications of each lexical item, including honorifics, and a few general PSG rules using a parser capable of unifying cyclic feature structures. It is shown that the possible word orders of Japanese honori f ic...

In this paper, we present what we believe to be the first data-driven dependency parser for Urdu. The parser was trained and tuned using MaltParser system, a system for data-driven dependency parsing. The Urdu dependency treebank (UDT) is used for training and testing of the Urdu dependency parser, is also presented first time. The UDT contains corpus of 2853 sentences which are annotated at mu...

Heavy-NP shift occurs when speakers prefer placing lengthy or “heavy” noun phrase direct objects in the clause-final position within a sentence rather than in the post-verbal position. Two experiments were conducted in this study, and their results suggested that having a long noun phrase affected the ordering of constituents (the noun phrase and prepositional phrase) by advanced Iranian EFL le...

We propose and implement an innovative semi-supervised framework for automatically discovering UMLS semantic relations. Our proposed framework uses semantic, syntactic and ortho-graphic features both at global level and local level. We experimented with multiple distance metric for clustering including Euclidean distance, spherical k-means distance, and Kullback-Leibler divergence. We show that...

We investigated the lexicalization of syntactic knowledge in two reading experiments, one using a moving window paradigm and one measuring eye movements. Our study was motivated by Spivey-Knowlton and Sedivy’s (1995) finding that verb class, and by implication frequency information, determined how easily a prepositional phrase (PP) was attached to a verb phrase (VP) or to a direct object noun p...

The lexical information of verbal lexemes, such as verbs and adjectives, plays an important role in syntactic parsing, because the structure of a sentence mainly hinges on the type of verbal lexemes. The question we address in this research is how to acquire the ‘argument structure’ (henceforth ARG-ST) of verbal lexemes in Korean. It is well known that manual build-up of type hierarchy usually ...

It has long been part of the folklore that typed feature structures were introduced into linguistics in order to replace the perceived-to-be-messy FCRs of GPSG. This correspondence between FCRs and typed feature structures, however, has never been made explicit. In fact, with the notion of appropriateness conditions used in Carpenter (1992), it is initially diicult to see how any dependency cou...