Complex predicates with light verbs have proven to be very challenging for syntactic theories, particularly due to the tricky distribution of valency complementations of light verbs and predicative nouns (or other predicative units) in their syntactic structure. We propose a theoretically adequate and economical representation of complex predicates with Czech light verbs based on a division of ...

In this paper, I first make an observation that there is a certain parallelism in the scope interpretation possibilities of adverbs and quantifiers with respect to different types complex predicates in Japanese, drawing on a comparison of the light verb construction and the causative construction. I will then argue that previous approaches to complex predicates in Japanese in the lexicalist tra...

We describe the FlexTrack system for querying trajectories using flexible pattern queries. Such queries are composed of a sequence of simple spatio-temporal predicates, e.g., range and nearest-neighbors, as well as complex motion pattern predicates, e.g., predicates that contain variables and constraints. Users can interactively select spatio-temporal predicates to construct such pattern querie...

This paper deals with the formation of complex predicates and some interesting scrambling facts in Korean. First, we extend the notion of complex predicates to include various noun-verb combinations by providing syntactic and semantic evidence. Within the HPSG framework, we then propose a general schema based on argument composition, which can be used for different types of complex predicates. ...

We present an annotation scheme for the annotation of complex predicates, understood as constructions with more than one lexical unit, each contributing part of the information normally associated with a single predicate. We discuss our annotation guidelines of four types of complex predicates, and the treatment of several difficult cases, related to ambiguity, overlap and coordination. We then...

A growing number of applications require support for processing data that is in the form of continuous stream, rather than finite stored data. In this paper we present a new approach for detecting temporal patterns with complex predicates over continuous data stream. Our algorithm efficiently scans the stream with a sliding window, and checks the data inside the window from right-to-left to see...

The nature of moral judgments, and, more specifically, the question how they relate, on one hand, to objective reality other, subjective experience, are issues that have been central metaethics from its very beginnings. While these complex and challenging debated by analytic philosophers for over a century, it is only relatively recently interdisciplinary empirically-oriented approaches such be...