Previous analyses of (Korean) Light Verb Constructions (LVCs) have failed to provide objective criteria for defining LVCs. The verb hais inconsistently regarded as a Light Verb (LV) or as a "heavy verb" depending on its environment. In the face of this problem, I argue, firstly, that all ha-sentences should be analyzed as LVCs when the potential Verbal Noun (VN) has at least one of the verbally...

Understanding and following verbal instructions is a crucial human ability, allowing quick transfer of knowledge about acting in the world. This paper presents the MARCO modular architecture for reasoning about and following route instructions. The Syntactic Parser parses route instruction texts. The Content Framer interprets the surface meaning of each sentence. The Instruction Modeler combine...

extraordinarily difficult and poses challenges for both integration and grounding. Here, I propose a unifying idea that meets both challenges: language games. A language game is a sequence of verbal interactions between two agents situated in a specific environment. Language games both integrate the various activities required for dialogue and ground unknown words or phrases in a specific conte...

This production study investigates the interaction of prosody, word order and information structure with respect to whconstituents in Urdu. We contrasted immediately preverbal wh-constituents with immediately postverbal ones. The preverbal position is the default focus position in Urdu; the appearance of wh-constituents in the immediately postverbal position within the verbal complex is not wel...

In this paper, we propose a method for anaphora resolution of zero subjects in Japanese manual sentences based on both the nature of language expressions and the ontology of ordinary instruction manuals. In instruction manuals written in Japanese, zero subjects often introduce ambiguity into sentences. In order to resolve them, we consider the property of several types of expressions including ...

This paper makes two claims about non-finite constituents headed by the affixes -tu/-i/-n/-Ø in Basque. First the semantics of these elements in modal contexts indicates that the standard analysis of these constituents as aspectual phrases is incorrect. We argue that -tu/i/-n/-Ø are merged as infinitival markers, which we take to be of category n. In perfective contexts the verb+-tu/-i/-n/-Ø ra...

This paper investigates whether and how natural language processing and data mining techniques can be utilized for locating desired knowledge in a large text collection. This task amounts to finding cue words and phrases indicating the location of knowledge, where the challenge is to establish a methodology that can cope with the diversity of expressions. We examine the feasibility of mining cu...

background: one of the essential aspects of the provision of care is cultural issues. cultural sensitivity is the key for cultural care. the aim of this study was to explore culturally sensitive care in pediatric nursing care in iran.materials and methods: this study was a conventional content analysis. participants were consisted of 25 nurses and 9 parents selected through purposive sampling f...