We present a novel, simple, unsupervised method for characterizing the semantic relations that hold between nouns in noun-noun compounds. The main idea is to discover predicates that make explicit the hidden relations between the nouns. This is accomplished by writing Web search engine queries that restate the noun compound as a relative clause containing a wildcard character to be filled in wi...

Some reorganizations and modifications to the WordNet ontology are explained. These changes have been suggested by extensive testing of the ontological categories with an algorithm for semantic interpretation The algorithm is based on predicates that have been defined for WordNet verb classes. The selectional restrictions of the predicates are WordNet ontological categories.

In this article, we show how grammar can account for Benglish verbs, a particular type of complex predicate, which are constituted of an English word and a Bengali verb (e.g. /EksiDenT kOra/ ‘to have an accident’, /in kOra/ ‘to get/come/put in’ or /kOnfuz kOra/ ‘to confuse’). We analyze these verbs in the light of a couple of models (e.g. Kageyama, 1991; Lieber, 1992; Matsumoto, 1996) which cla...

In this demonstration, we show an algorithm for the semantic interpretation of unrestricted texts. The algorithm presents a solution for the following interpretation problems: determination of the meaning of the verb, identification of thematic roles and adjuncts, and attachments of prepositional phrases (PPs). An interesting aspect of the algorithm is that the solution of all these problems is...

Persian and Turkish exhibit a number of striking similarities: (a) many verbal concepts are expressed by complex predicates (CPr), consisting of a non-verbal (NV) element and a light verb (LV) (Foli et al 2005, Megerdoomian 2002, Kornfilt 2003), (b) both languages exhibit scrambling, and (c) they both mark direct objects for specificity (Karimi 2005, Enc 1991). However, there are also some impo...

In the process of language evolution, some te-verb forms in Japanese have been converted into adverbial modifiers or complete adverbs for modifying predicates. The conversion from verb to modifier adverb is a gradual process. On basis previous researches, this paper takes「敢えて」,「極めて」,「初めて」,「改めて」,「好んで」and「目立って」as research objects, and through investigation corpus explore evolution diachronic rece...

One of the main tasks related to multiword expressions (MWEs) is compound verb identification. There have been so many works on unsupervised identification of multiword verbs in many languages, but there has not been any conspicuous work on Persian language yet. Persian multiword verbs (known as compound verbs), are a kind of light verb construction (LVC) that have syntactic flexibility such as...

Abstract The goal of this paper is to revisit the so-called aspectual se , frequently cited over last three decades as a new function reflexive pronouns in Spanish and other languages, which refers facultative uses pronoun where it has no effect on valency or diathesis verb. I will focus four empirical problems that such accounts face when dealing with corpus data: requirement delimited object ...

Complex Predicates are a crosslinguistically general phenomenon, but are more pervasive in South Asian than in European languages. This paper describes an LFG solution for Urdu/Hindi complex predication in terms of a RESTRICTION OPERATOR. The solution is theoretically well motivated and can be extended straightforwardly to related phenomena in European languages such as German, Norwegian, and F...

Abstract The goal of this paper is to revisit the so-called aspectual se , frequently cited over last three decades as a new function reflexive pronouns in Spanish and other languages, which refers facultative uses pronoun where it has no effect on valency or diathesis verb. I will focus four empirical problems that such accounts face when dealing with corpus data: requirement delimited object ...