Existing methods for extracting features from Chinese reviews only use simplistic syntactic knowledge, while those for identifying sentiments rely heavily on a semantic dictionary. In this paper, we present a systematic technique for identifying features and sentiments, using both syntactic and statistical analysis. We firstly identify candidate features using a proposed set of common syntactic...

Scholarly peer review is a complex collaborative activity that is increasingly supported by web-based systems. Yet little is known about how reviewers and authors interact in such environments, how criticisms are conveyed, or how the systems may affect the interactions and use of language of reviewers and authors. We looked at one aspect of the interactions between reviewers and authors, the us...

Objective: To investigate the lexico-syntactic properties of clinical phenotype terms in order to identify partial lexical mappings between HPO and SNOMED CT. Methods: We identify modifiers HPO terms and attempt to map demodified terms to SNOMED CT through UMLS. Results: We identified partial mappings to SNOMED CT for 20% of HPO concepts with no complete mapping to SNOMED CT. Conclusions: Throu...

Automatic assessment of subjective characteristics of customers like politeness, satisfaction or competence could provide services companies with information needful for improving service quality. In this work, we construct a regression model for politeness estimation of customers, which uses a) set of linguistic indicators and b) manual estimations of expert(s). We apply the suggested methodol...

In our study „Polite responses to polite requests‟, 1 we reported four experiments. In Experiment 1, people rated the politeness of 18 types of indirect requests, such as Could you tell me where Jordan Hall is? In Experiments 2, 3, and 4, other people rated the politeness of various responses to these requests, such as Yes, I can—it's down the street and Down the street. From the findings, we a...

Floating quantifiers (FQs) in English exhibit both universal and language-specific properties, and this paper shows that such syntactic and semantic characteristics can be explained in terms of a constraint-based, lexical approach to the construction within the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). Based on the assumption that FQs are base-generated VP modifiers, this paper ...

Recent versions of the Extended Standard Theory (e.g., Chomsky 1981, 1986) have proposed that syntactic structures are largely projectable from the properties of their constituent lexical items in particular, from their thematic properties. In this paper I argue for an extension of this approach to nominal structure. My focus will not be on nominals related in an obvious way to verbal projectio...

We have begun work on a framework for abstractive summarization and decided to focus first on a text generation module. In our submitted system, sentences are generated from the syntactic parse of the original sentences. The summaries are written entirely from automatically generated sentences, as well as generated date and location modifiers when appropriate. The evaluation shows above-average...

Sociolinguistic research suggests that women are more likely than men to use politeness strategies in their speech. Researchers have reported that women pay more compliments than men, that women in talk with same-sex peers use a large number of positive-politeness strategies while men in analogous situations do not, and that women are more likely to apologize, soften criticism or express thanks...

This study examines variation in evaluations of im/politeness of a recording of a naturally occurring intercultural apology, focusing in particular on potential cultural differences in these evaluations across speakers of (Australian) English and (Mandarin) Chinese. We first closely analyse the apology itself as a form of social action, and suggest in the course of this analysis that evaluation...