Sentiment Analysis, an important area of Natural Language Understanding, often relies on the assumption that lexemes carry inherent sentiment values, as reflected in specialized resources. We examine and measure the contribution that eight intensifying adverbs make to the sentiment value of sentences, as judged by human annotators. Our results show, first, that the intensifying adverbs are not ...

We introduce the first benchmark for a new problem — recognizing human action adverbs (HAA): “Adverbs Describing Human Actions” (ADHA). We demonstrate some key features of ADHA: a semantically complete set of adverbs describing human actions, a set of common, describable human actions, and an exhaustive labeling of simultaneously emerging actions in each video. We commit an in-depth analysis on...

While French degree words have been assigned several syntactic categories, we show that they are rather highy ‘polymorphic’ adverbs (they occur in all syntactic domains), which select the expression they modify on a purely semantic basis. Like French adverbs in general, they occur both to the left and to the right of the head they modify. Following previous work (a.o. van Noord and Bouma 1994, ...

Adverbs are words that used to change, modify or qualify several types of other including adjectives, verbs, adverbs. There five basic adverbs in the English language, namely Manner, Time, Place, Frequency, and Degree. In Arabic there just two Time Place. This research aimed prove adverb time exists both languages compare state similarities differences between languages. Most importantly, show ...

Epistemic modality devices are believed to be one of the prominent characteristics of research articles as the commonly used genre among the academic community members. Considering the importance of such devices in producing and comprehending scientific discourse, this study aimed to cross–culturally and cross-linguistically investigate epistemic modality markers as an important subcategory...

The article characterizes the problematic aspects regarding definition of status in modern Ukrainian linguistics, semantic properties invariable morphological units, correlative with qualitatively descriptive adverbs and motivated by qualitative adjectives, as well those that are frozen nominative word forms that, under certain contextual conditions, used to reproduce emotionally -willful or ph...

There are some frequently used Chinese adverbs that display such a high degree of multifunctionality that the usage categorizing and the semantic connective pattern have long been a disputed issue, such as the repetitive adverbs 還 hai ‘still’, 再 zai ‘again’ and 又 you ‘again, also’. However, if attention could be turned from the nuances of usages within a single language to the notions these adv...