This paper describes a theory of the representation and use of linguistic knowledge in a natural language understanding system. The representation system draws much of its insight from the linguistic theory of Fillmore el al. (1988). This models knowledge of language as a large collection of grammatical constructions, each a description of a linguistic regularity. I describe a representation la...

TACRED leverages the work done selecting query entities and annotating system responses in the TAC KBP evaluations. In each year of the TAC KBP evaluation (2009–2015), 100 query entities are given to participating KBP systems with the aim of filling in valid knowledge base entries for these entities. Our annotation effort re-uses these query entities, annotating each sentence in the source corp...

Linguistic knowledge plays a crucial role in natural language processing. Constructing large linguistic knowledge bases requires a lot of human effort and much cost. There have been many attempts to construct linguistic knowledge automatically, based on two primary strategies: knowledge extraction from annotated corpora and the augmentation of existing knowledge bases using annotated corpora. T...

A large part of human communication involves referring to entities in the world and often these entities are objects that are visually present for the interlocutors. A system that aims to resolve such references needs to tackle a complex task: objects and their visual features need to be determined, the referring expressions must be recognised, and extra-linguistic information such as eye gaze ...

background and aims: considering the fact that different components of linguistic knowledge are not equally vulnerable, this study investigated the knowledge of argument structure of verbs in a group of deaf persian speakers, as people who have been deprived of linguistic data during the early years of their childhood that is the critical period of language acquisition. methods: in this study, ...

Determining the stance expressed by an author from a post written for a twosided debate in an online debate forum is a relatively new problem. We seek to improve Anand et al.’s (2011) approach to debate stance classification by modeling two types of soft extra-linguistic constraints on the stance labels of debate posts, user-interaction constraints and ideology constraints. Experimental results...

â â â  â  abstract â â â  this study addressed the semantic vagueness in aljubby's book (sharih ghareeb alfath almudawana) in almaliki terms. it consists of introduction, preface, three sections, and conclusion. the preface stated the semantic obscurity in language and terminology with the definition of the book (almudawana) in maliki fiqh. the first section studied aljubby's method a...

This paper focuses on examining the effect of extra-linguistic information, such as eye gaze, integrated with linguistic information on multi-modal reference resolution. In our evaluation, we employ eye gaze information together with other linguistic factors in machine learning, while in prior work such as Kelleher (2006) and Prasov and Chai (2008) the incorporation of eye gaze and linguistic c...

Previous research regarding the neural basis of semantic composition has relied heavily on violation paradigms, which often compare implausible sentences that violate world knowledge to plausible sentences that do not violate world knowledge. This comparison is problematic as it may involve extralinguistic operations such as contextual repair and processes that ultimately lead to the rejection ...