In Dutch, verbs are situated at fixed places in the sentence. Those places are called the first and second pole. VP adjuncts seem to function as some kind of pivot place in between these poles. This article investigates, by means of corpus research in the Spoken Dutch Corpus (CGN), which elements are intervening between these VP adjuncts and the second pole. Attention is particularly paid to th...

In this paper we address a method to align EnglishChinese bilingual news reports from China News Service, combining both lexical and statistical approaches. Because of the sentential structure differences between English and Chinese, matching at the sentence level as in many other works may result in frequent matching of several sentences en masse. In view of this, the current work also attempt...

The investigation presented in this paper is a novel method in question answering (QA) that enables a QA system to gain performance through reuse of information in the answer to one question to answer another related question. Our analysis shows that a pair of question in a general open domain QA can have embedding relation through their mentions of noun phrase expressions. We present methods f...

This article presents the prototype for English Text to Indian Sign Language conversion system using synthetic animations in real domain. The translation system consists of parsing module which parses the input English sentence to phrase structure grammar representation on which Indian sign language grammar rules are applied to reorder the words of the English sentence (as the grammar of Englis...

The syntactic component of a speech understanding system is described. The interface between acoustic recognition and syntax is sketched, and the set-up of the lexicon is outlined. The main aspects of the paper concern the ru/e format of the APSG (augmented phrase structure grammar), the syntactic concept for handling the sentence topology of German, and the treatment of discontinuous structure...

The paper will explore how the landscape types and the quest types are used in various games, how they structure the gameplay, how they act as bones for the game-content (graphics, dialogue, sound) and how they sometimes form the base on which a story is imposed and related to the player. The question then becomes, how does the quest structure influence the story structure? How do the limitatio...

The current paper argues that the phenomenon in Japanese that case phrases occur without their head verb before the finite complementizer would falsify the HPSG valence/content analysis, for example, in Sag 1997, Pollard and Sag 1994, if no phantom relation corresponding to a verb is used in the syntax or semantics. The HPSG valence/content analysis is that the content of a case phrase structur...

Valence dictionaries are dictionaries in which logical predicates (most of the times verbs) are inventoried alongside with the semantic and syntactic information regarding the role of the arguments with which they combine, as well as the syntactic restrictions these arguments have to obey. In this article we present the incipient stage of the project “Syntactic and semantic database in XML form...

in this article, while bringing up the phrase ‘aqrab al-nās ilayha ‘alī b. abī ṭālib, we would touch upon the important controversy concerning the rest of the phrase and would examine the viewpoints of both the proponents and opponents; then, we would draw a conclusion of this debate and explain that various phrases have been quoted from ibn ‘arabī and it is most likely that this difference is ...