Argument Realization presents a thorough survey of current theories that deal with the relationship between verbs and their arguments. It addresses the problem of argument realization in its many aspects such as semantic roles, lexical semantic representation, conceptualizations of events, thematic hierarchies, and verb alternations. This is a linguistics book and therefore geared toward resear...

The article deals with emotions represented through images of the characters of M.Y. Lermontov’s novel A Hero of Our Time. The author consecutively analyzes elements of the text, in which emotions of male and female characters are nominated, directly expressed and described. The number of lexical units and text elements involved in the representation of a particular emotion is recorded in...

The candidate confirms that the work submitted is her own and that appropriate credit has been given where reference has been made to the work of others i ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisor Eric Atwell, Bill Whyte for helpful commentary and suggestions and also to Clive Souter, George Demetriou who provided me with LKB dictionary and gave me good suggestions. ...

In most natural language processing systems there is no representation of the semantic knowledge of lexical units, but just subcategorization frames, selection restrictions and links to other paradigmatically-related lexical units. Some NLP systems, e.g. machine translation or dialogue-based systems, attempt to “understand” the input text by translating it into some kind of formal language-inde...

Minimal recursion semantics (MRS) is a framework for computational semantics that is suitable for parsing and generation and that can be implemented in typed feature structure formalisms. We discuss why, in general, a semantic representation with minimal structure is desirable and illustrate how a descriptively adequate representation with a nonrecursive structure may be achieved. MRS enables a...

The aim of the present paper is to formalize semantic-directed lexical selection by virtue of frame-based semantic inference capability built in the CFL representation language. The DG model of paraphrasing semantic descriptions can explicate logical process of knowledge-based sentence generation excluding any particular procedures for lexical selection or syntax structure generation. In additi...

In this paper, I will discuss four major topics relating to current research in lexical semantics: methodology, descriptive coverage, adequacy of the representation, and the computational usefulness of representations. In addressing these issues, I will discuss what I think are some of the central problems facing the lexical semantics community, and suggest ways of best approaching these issues...

This paper aims to show that semantic representation of verbs may require the inclusion of constructional inferences in addition to lexical specifications. By examining the transitive pattern of the Mandarin verb GAN (,y) 'rush' , we found that verbal semantics can only be adequately represented if constructionally coerced information is taken into consideration. The construction [GAN + NP] ren...

Natural language questions are interpreted to a sequence of patterns to be matched with instances of patterns in a knowledge base (KB) for answering. A natural language (NL) question answering (QA) system utilizes meaningful patterns matching the syntactic/lexical features between the NL questions and KB. In the most of KBs, there are only binary relations in triple form to represent relation b...