Noun phrase analysis is one of the most important components in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, such as information retrieval, extraction and categorization. For Thai, noun phrase analysis has unique problems, i.e., noun phrase boundary identification, noun phrase decomposition and its relation extraction, and core noun detection. Statistical and rule based Word formation is, th...

Our system for the Japanese BC/EXAM subtasks in NTCIR10 RITE2 is an extension of our previous system for NTCIR9 RITE. The new techniques are (1) Case-aware noun phrase matching using ontologies: The motivation of the feature is to capture finer syntactic structures than simple word matching. We uses ontologies to allow flexible matching of noun phrases. (2) Temporal expression matching after ma...

This paper investigates aspects of the noun phrase from a Scandinavian heritage language perspective, with an emphasis on noun phrase-internal gender agreement and noun declension. Our results are somewhat surprising compared with earlier research: We find that noun phrase-internal agreement for the most part is rather stable. To the extent that we find attrition, it affects agreement in the no...

Embedded noun phrase structures are frequently used in the Japanese language because embedded sentences make modified noun phrases more expressive. In embedded noun phrase structures, a noun phrase modified by an embedded sentence is usually created by extraposing the case, such as the subjective case, of the sentence. In contrast, there is another type of embedded noun phrase structure. In thi...

This study aims to analyze the sentence structures of fairy tales. It was designed with a descriptive qualitative research Aesop’s tales entitled The Lion and Mouse hare Tortoise as data source by applying method rewriting rules in tree diagram analysis syntactical theory, called PSG (Phrase-Structure Grammar). took 26 which 13 sentences were taken directly from other Hare Tortoise. focused o...

In this paper we investigate the impact of candidate terms filtering using linguistic information on the accuracy of automatic keyphrase extraction from scientific papers. According to linguistic knowledge, the noun phrases are most likely to be keyphrases. However the definition of a noun phrase can vary from a system to another. We have identified five POS tag sequence definitions of a noun p...