This paper studies the adjectival modification to nouns in Mandarin Chinese based on selective binding. The main findings include: (1)An adjective can select different types of head nouns as arguments and an adjective may modify an individual or an event. (2)The qualia structure of a noun helps us better understand an adjective’s selectional preference. Meanwhile, an adjective can modify multi-...

We present a noun chunker for German which is based on a head-lexicalised probabilistic contextfree grammar. A manually developed grammar was semi-automatically extended with robustness rules in order to allow parsing of unrestricted text. The model parameters were learned from unlabelled training data by a probabilistic context-free parser. For extracting noun chunks, the parser generates all ...


 This chapter provides a description of noun phrases in the Ardalāni variety Sorani Kurdish. In Kurdish, surface word order within Noun Phrase is head initial and post-nominal modifiers are linked to phrase by linking element called Ezafe (Windfuhr 1989). We show that realization phonologically conditioned Ardalāni, unlike other varieties However, crucially, we definite contexts, obligato...

For the analysis of the noun phrase, the treatment which currently prevails in generative grammar is the one in which the head of the noun phrase is identified with the determiner, rather than with the noun. This D(et)P treatment has the advantage of providing a uniform account of all syntactic categories, both the substantive and the functional ones, and it provides a natural way to capture th...

Automatically extracting keyphrases from documents is a task with many applications in information retrieval and natural language processing. Document retrieval can be biased towards documents containing relevant keyphrases; documents can be classified or categorized based on their keyphrases; automatic text summarization may extract sentences with high keyphrase scores. This paper describes a ...

This study focuses on the prosodic patterns of noun phrases (NP) in English, Mandarin and L2 English so as to find out the prosodic similarities and differences between English and Mandarin as well as the effects of the prosody of L1 Mandarin on the acquisition of L2 English NP prosody. The results reveal that English NPs usually have one IP for the NPs with pre-modifiers and two IPs for those ...

This work tests the use of word similarity lists for anaphora resolution in Portuguese and French corpora. We applied an automatic lexical acquisition technique over parsed texts to identify semantically similar words. We then made use of this lexical knowledge to resolve coreferential definite descriptions where the head noun of the anaphor is different from the head noun of its antecedent, wh...

Combination of grammatical roles in relative clauses (RC) is determined by a multitude of factors (Fox and Thompson 1990, Pu 2007, Ming and Chen 2009). This study shows that four factors (discourse functions of RCs, grounding mechanism, information status, and animacy of head nouns) interact with one another to determine which combination is favored in a Chinese discourse. 1. Introduction The p...

The verb-noun sequence in Chinese often creates ambiguities in parsing. These ambiguities can usually be resolved if we know in advance whether the verb and the noun tend to be in the verb-object relation or the modifier-head relation. In this paper, we describe a learning procedure whereby such knowledge can be automatically acquired. Using an existing (imperfect) parser with a chart filter an...

This paper describes a workbench system for constructing a dictionary to interpret compound nouns, which integrates the acquisition of semantic information and interpretation of compound nouns. First, we extract semantic information from a machine readable dictionary and corpora using regular expressions. Then, the semantic relation of compound nouns are interpreted based on semantic relations,...