In this paper, we report the results of an experiment concerning the eVect of object clauses on phrasal stress of the matrix verb. The presentation of the experiment is embedded in a discussion of the interaction of phrasal stress with movement in German. Section 10.2 includes some background on stress assignment and an introduction to the interaction of syntactic movement with the assignment o...

Word reordering is one of the fundamental problems of machine translation, and an important factor of its quality and efficiency. In this paper, we introduce a novel reordering model based on an innovative structure, named, phrasal dependency tree including syntactical and statistical information in context of a log-linear model. The phrasal dependency tree is a new modern syntactic structure b...

A wide variety of languages have been shown to have phonological rules whose domains of application are larger than words but smaller than intonational phrases or utterances. Within the theory of prosodic phonology, such rules correspond to the level of the Phonological Phrase, and for convenience I will use the cover term phrasal rules for them. However, the goal of this paper is to show that ...

In this paper we describe a method of acquiring word order fl'om corpora. Word order is defined as the order of modifiers, or the order of phrasal milts called 'bunsetsu' which depend on the stone modifiee. The method uses a model which automatically discovers what the tendency of the word order in Japanese is by using various kinds of information in and around the target bunsetsus. This model ...

The white coat, the definitive symbol of the doctor, has been under assault in recent years. For physicians, white became the new black towards the end of the 19 century, reflecting a new emphasis on cleanliness and antisepsis. Nursing uniforms followed suit as did those of religious orders tending to the sick. Twenty years ago, a medical student or junior doctor would have been chided on the w...

in order to arrive at a better understanding of resurrecting individuals, one should consider theories of soul and, more specifically, that saying the sameness between soul and temperament. advocates of this theory assert that soul is the efficient cause for the appearance of biotic effects. they also maintain that this efficient cause (i.e. soul) is an accident called temperament and, hence, s...

This chapter has two objectives. It discusses a design pattern for phrasal constructions and introduces the templates that can be used to instantiate this pattern in Fluid Construction Grammar, using as illustration nominal phrases such as “the green mouse” or “this mouse of mine”. Phrasal constructions not only build phrases but also combine the meanings contributed by their constituents and p...

The present work describes a Phrasal Example Based Machine Translation system from English to Bengali that identifies the phrases in the input through a shallow analysis, retrieves the target phrases using a Phrasal Example base and finally combines the target language phrases employing some heuristics based on the phrase ordering rules for Bengali. The paper focuses on the structure of the nou...

This report introduces the STEP system for natural language access to relational databases. In contrast to most work in the area, STEP adopts a phrasal approach; an administrator couples phrasal patterns to elementary expressions of tuple relational calculus. This ‘phrasal lexicon’ is used bi-directionally, enabling the generation of natural language from tuple relational calculus and the inver...

This work describes an experimental evaluation of the significance of phrasal verb treatment for obtaining better quality statistical machine translation (SMT) results. The importance of the detection and special treatment of phrasal verbs is measured in the context of SMT, where the word-for-word translation of these units often produces incoherent results. Two ways of integrating phrasal verb...