In The proper treatment of quantification in ordimny Englim tk rQ) (Montague, 1973), Richard Montague presents the syntax and semantics of a fragment of English. His objective is to support the contention that “there is . . . no important theoretical difference between natural languages and the artificial languages of logicians” and that it is “possible to comprehend the syntax given in PTQ con...

Chinese verb phrases classification is to determine boundaries of verb phrases and divide them exactly, using brackets, by automatically analyzing and processing by computer after the sentences have been decollated and marked the characteristic or property of a certain word. SVM classification model is a common and powerful for classification tasks. In this paper, the SVM classification model i...

Prostate cancer removal surgeries result in tumor found at the surgical margin, otherwise known as a positive surgical margin, have a significantly higher chance of biochemical recurrence and clinical progression. To support clinical outcomes assessment a system was designed to automatically identify, extract, and classify key phrases from pathology reports describing this outcome. Heuristics a...

NegEx, a rule-based algorithm that detects negations in English clinical text, was translated into Swedish and evaluated on clinical text written in Swedish. The NegEx algorithm detects negations through the use of trigger phrases, which indicate that a preceding or following concept is negated. A list of English trigger phrases was translated into Swedish, taking grammatical differences betwee...

Syntax is a part of linguistics that studies how words are combined into sentences and phrases. In this study, we focus on analyzing the syntax noun phrases in Indonesian. We use treebank analysis technique to identify syntactic structure Study results show Indonesian have complex varied structures context types play an important role influencing These findings for understanding formed understo...

Chinese maximal-length phrases (maximal-length noun phrases and prepositional phrases) possess notable linguistic properties. Bidirectional labeling results of the Chinese maximal-length phrases obtained by sequential classifiers reveal the complementary properties in the two directions of Chinese sentences. In this paper, both left-right and right-left sequential labeling are used to identify ...

Before we can create intelligent systems that exhibit the versatility of the human intellect, we must understand how our command of language enables the uniquely broad scope of our reasoning ability. To pursue such an understanding, we must discover the ways by which language gives rise to representations which, in turn, serve as the building blocks of models that capture constraints and regula...

The paper proposes a sentence alignment method based on maximum entropy model using anchor sentences to align ancient and modern Chinese sentences in historical classics. The method selects the sentence pairs with the same phrases at the beginning or the end of the sentence or with the same time phrases as anchor sentence pairs, which are employed to divide the paragraph into several sections. ...

An eye tracking experiment was conducted in order to investigate the role of verb information in resolving structural ambiguity during sentence comprehension. Reading time was measured on sentences containing temporarily ambiguous noun phrases (e.g. "The athlete revealed the problem") that were continued as tensed sentence (S) complements or noun phrase (NP) complements. Ambiguous noun phrases ...