Research into people's comprehension of novel noun-noun phrases has long neglected the possible influences of prosody during meaning construction. At the same time, work in conceptual combination has disagreed about whether different classes of interpretation emerge from single or multiple processes; for example, whether people use distinct mechanisms when they interpret octopus apartment as pr...

We investigate coreference relationships between NPs with the same head noun. It is relatively common in unsupervised work to assume that such pairs are coreferent– but this is not always true, especially if realistic mention detection is used. We describe the distribution of noncoreferent same-head pairs in news text, and present an unsupervised generative model which learns not to link some s...

We present in this paper an approach to extract and structure noun phrases from text corpora. The proposed structure is based on a syntax network (head-modifier relationship) and association rules (text mining). We present the elements to be taken into account during the textual documents analysis and we detail the process used. By an experimentation, we show the effect of using the structure a...

Similarity analysis is a substantial issue in both corpus-based researches and language usages. This paper focuses on the semantic usages of adjectives, and analyzes the similarities among adjectives. The adjective and the semantic tag of the head noun that it modifies in a noun phrase form a co-occurrence. A two-stage algorithm is applied to clustering the adjectives according to these co-occu...

This paper argues that Korean lacks a distinct, open category of Adjective; what have been traditionally analyzed as adjectives are a kind of stative verbs. I propose that apparent noun-modifying adjectives in Korean are predicates inside relative clauses. The proposed analysis makes several predictions about the syntax and semantics of noun modifiers in Korean. In particular, it predicts that ...

The current paper argues that there are three types of nominal appositions, i.e. two juxtaposed noun phrases (NPs), in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Each type shows special properties terms the category units, deletion NP, word order, case agreement, and semantic relation. For each type, we propose a separate structural analysis. An adjunction analysis is motivated for Type I appositions which ...

This paper presents new experimental evidence on the relevance of feature mismatch between the head noun and the embedded noun in the comprehension of relative clauses. Exp. 1 shows that number mismatch determines an amelioration of both subjectand object-extracted relatives in English children. Exp. 2 shows that animacy mismatch per se does not play a role in German but 4-year-olds show a freq...

Most structural Binding Theories predict a complementary distribution between reflexives and pronouns in picture noun phrases containing possessors (e.g. "Ken's picture of himself/him"). In two head-mounted eye-tracking experiments, listeners frequently violated Binding Theory predictions for reflexives, often interpreting the reflexives as taking an antecedent outside of the binding domain, an...

The article is a systematic, corpus-based account of Latin’s influence on the position Old English (OE) adnominal adjectives. While multiple studies phrase-level syntax suggest that source-text interference may have been partly responsible for placing adjective after head noun, this observation has so far received little quantitative underpinning. present offers detailed comparison OE target no...

In this paper, we discuss how domainspecific noun polarity lexicons can be induced. We focus on the generation of good candidates and compare two machine learning scenarios in order to establish an approach that produces high precision. Candidates are generated on the basis of polarity preferences of adjectives derived from a large domain-independent corpus. The polarity preference of a word, h...