Wordplays are a type of verbal humor widely used around the world. Usually, they use homophony or phrases very similar in sound, furthermore ambiguity in word senses. In Natural Processing Language area this usually represents a failure. However, in Computational Humor, it can be seen as an advantage that can be taken as advantage in generation and identification of this kind of texts. In this ...

We report on chunk tagging methods for German that recognize complex non-verbal phrases using structural chunk tags with Conditional Random Fields (CRFs). This state-of-the-art method for sequence classification achieves 93.5% accuracy on newspaper text. For the same task, a classical trigram tagger approach based on Hidden Markov Models reaches a baseline of 88.1%. CRFs allow for a clean and p...

We introduce a novel modality scheme where triggers are words and phrases that convey modality meanings and subcategorize for clauses and verbal phrases. This semanticsyntactic working definition of modality enables us to design practical and replicable annotation guidelines and procedures that alleviate some shortcomings of current purely semantic modality annotation schemes and yield high int...

In this paper an approach to primary business-media analysis for further information extraction is proposed. We consider business events representation by looking into part of speech (POS) distribution across tagged n-grams. Two Russian business-media corpora, Russian Business Consulting (RBC) and Commersant, are analyzed, and it is shown that they differ not only in style or themes coverage bu...

This paper describes the types of thematic role categories verbal clause arguments in Toba Batak language (BBT). syntactic study is conducted through a qualitative approach with listening technique collecting oral and written data. Then data processed commensurate 'agih' methods, which are described distributional informal methods. The results show that category clauses BBT divided into two par...

A method for verbal expression of degree of uncertainty is described. It requires the subject to select a phrase from a list that spans the full range of probabilities. In a second, optional, step, the subject indicates the numerical meaning of each phrase. The method avoids two problems of verbal probabilities-the indefinitely large lexicon and the individual differences in the interpretation ...

This research aims to identify the representation of fantasy comedy and explain sign system represent that is found in Turning Red movie posters. was descriptive qualitative because result discussed descriptively. The data this signifier signifier, verbal signs represented by text which consists words, phrases, clauses, sentences on posters, non-verbal picture. Then, color meaning From research...

This paper provides a description of prosodic structure and intonational properties of Koasati, an endangered Muskogean language spoken by approximately 300 people in Louisiana and Texas. Words in Koasati group into Accentual Phrases (AP), which are characterized by an initial and final high tone. Accentual Phrases in turn combine to form Intonational Phrases (IP), which are defined by a final ...

In this paper we describe the results of unsupervised (clustering) and supervised (classification) learning experiments with the purpose of recognising the function of singular neuter pronouns in Danish corpora of written and spoken language. Danish singular neuter pronouns comprise personal and demonstrative pronouns. They are very frequent and have many functions such as non-referential, cata...