Chinese and Korean belong to different language families in terms of word-order and morphological typology. Chinese is an SVO and morphologically poor language while Korean is an SOV and morphologically rich one. In Chinese-to-Korean SMT systems, systematic differences between the verbal systems of the two languages make the generation of Korean verbal phrases difficult. To resolve the difficul...

This paper summarizes ndings of a literature review on verbal uncertainty expressions. There have been several studies in this eld in the last twenty years. The main motivation behind these studies is that using verbal expressions is preferred by humans in certain situations and may be practically applied in decision making. It is postulated to re ect better non-numerical nature of the data, av...

This paper summarizes ndings of a literature review on verbal uncertainty expressions. There have been several studies in this eld in the last twenty years. The main motivation behind these studies is that using verbal expressions is preferred by humans in certain situations and may be practically applied in decision making. It is postulated to re ect better non-numerical nature of the data, av...

Word-sense recognition and disambiguation (WERD) is the task of identifying word phrases and their senses in natural language text. Though it is well understood how to disambiguate noun phrases, this task is much less studied for verbs and verbal phrases. We present Werdy, a framework for WERD with particular focus on verbs and verbal phrases. Our framework first identifies multi-word expressio...

When forecasters and decision-makers use different phrases to refer to the same event, there is opportunity for errors in communication.! In an effort to facilitate the communication process, we investigated various ways of "translating" a forecaster's verbal probabilities to a decision-maker's probability phrases.! We describe a blueprint for a general translator of verbal probabilities and re...

Four experiments were conducted to test the effects of an elaborated verbal encoding context on face recognition. The verbal context consisted of short descriptive phrases about the person shown, and the degree of elaboration was manipulated by varying the number of such phrases across faces. In all four experiments, subjects initially studied faces either alone or accompanied by one or more de...

This article presents a contrastive analysis between reading time and syntactic/semantic categories in Japanese. We overlaid the reading time annotation of BCCWJ-EyeTrack and a syntactic/semantic category information annotation on the ‘Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese’. Statistical analysis based on a mixed linear model showed that verbal phrases tend to have shorter reading tim...

Linguistic combinations are referred to as a chain of words that associate with one another and form a semantic phrases, such as adjectival and noun. Innovation in this field is one of the main tasks of creative poetry. Shams's sonnets are of the prominent works of Persian literature and their composition is characterized by its stylistic features. In order to express his sublime and mystical t...