Paraphrases, which stem from the variety of lexical and grammatical means of expressing meaning available in a language, pose challenges for a sentence generation system. In this paper, we discuss the generation of paraphrases from predicate/argument structure using a simple, uniform generation methodology. Central to our approach are lexico-grammatical resources which pair elementary semantic ...

The primary objective of this study is to identify the types errors made by Korean college students in an oral proficiency interview relation specific task topics, and examine how these affect their lexico-grammatical scores. Ninety-six two-minute-long audio clips 32 on three different topics were transcribed. Lexico-grammatical then coded for statistical analysis scores estimated using many-fa...

The present paper describes procedures to visualise diachronic language changes in academic discourse to support analysis. These changes are reflected in the distribution of different lexico-grammatical features according to register. Findings about register differences are relevant for both linguistic applications (e.g., discourse analysis and translation studies) and NLP tasks (notably automa...

1. INTRODUCTION. This paper investigates a small set of specific-general noun sequences (SGNs) and their role as a system of nominal classification in Sinhala. Systems of nominal classification have typically been described in terms of three sub-types: 1) lexical systems (class terms and measure terms), 2) lexico-grammatical systems (classifiers), and 3) grammatical systems (noun class markers ...

While the plain language movement has shed light on lack of readability statutory texts for lay person, there been a empirical methodology employed to determine ways in which differs lexico-grammatically from forms popular that are familiar person. With this mind, present study conducts comparative analysis and other written (i.e., corpus news reports, sports encyclopedia articles, historical a...