Automatic Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge about Multiword Predicates Afsaneh Fazly Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 2007 A multiword predicate is the combination of a predicate (often a verb) with one or more of its arguments, that together form a single unit of predicative meaning. We focus on a broad class of multiword predicates, in which a ...

Set-valued information systems are generalized models of single-valued information systems. Its semantic interpretation can be classified into two categories: disjunctive and conjunctive. We focus on the former in this paper. By introducing four types of dominance relations to the disjunctive set-valued information systems, we establish a dominance-based rough sets approach, which is mainly bas...

One of important issues in the field of implication and aggression is        "منصوب به نزع خافض". It is an idiom related to  مفعول به "”. By referring to its definition, a syntactic-semantic analysis will be done in this paper. It tries to indicate what is the relationship between word and meaning and to what extent Arabic syntax focu...

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