In recent years many scientific journals noticed an increasing number of submissions of plagiarized papers. The Editor-in-Chief of an important international journal, that receives very many submissions every year, recently privately wrote us “I had to reject on such basis over a dozen of submissions just this year”. The smaller size of our journal limits the number of such situations, but does...

A fter perusing the articles and guest editors’ introduction for this issue on extreme data, I googled “extreme,” and hundreds of links bubbled up—from computing, coupons, data, and fatigue, to science, scientists and science fun, to “extreme x” (don’t ask). I then concluded that “extreme” has become an unreliable buzzword, used somewhat indiscriminately for its shock value. That said, the fact...

This paper reports on the annotation of all English verbs included in WordNet 2.0 with TimeML event classes. Two annotators assign each verb present in WordNet the most relevant event class capturing most of that verb’s meanings. At the end of the annotation process, inter-annotator agreement is measured using kappa statistics, yielding a kappa value of 0.87. The cases of disagreement between t...

One much-discussed question concerning the noun-verb distinction from a crosslinguistic, typological perspective is whether this distinction is continuous or discrete. Not surprisingly given their general commitments and styles of analysis, functionalist theorists have tended to see it as continuous (Bhat, 1994, Dixon, 1982, Hengeveld, 1992, Stassen, 1997, Wetzer, 1996), whereas formal generati...

In our target article [Chow, W., Smith, C., Lau, E., & Phillips, C. (2015), A “bag-of-arguments” mechanism for initial verb predictions, we investigated the predictions that comprehenders initially make about an upcoming verb as they read and provided evidence that they are sensitive to the arguments’ lexical meaning but not their structural roles. Here we synthesise findings from our work with...

German particle verbs have been a source of confusion and disagreement in both syntax and semantics. This is shown by the considerable variety of approaches to particle verb constructions (see Dehé et al. 2002 for an overview). The major challenges are the argument structure of particle verbs and the role that particles play in determining them, especially in those cases where the argument stru...

This paper describes the techniques used for our system participating in the Document Understanding Conference 2006. We describe a new system, built from scratch, that focuses primarily on collecting models of possible answers for each question from the Internet, and applying those models to select the answer sentences from the documents in the collection. The system performed averagely in the ...

Using a 20-hour contrastive corpus documenting political debates (public as well on TV) and work meetings, the paper examines functions distributions of specific French evidential: tu dis/vous dites [P] [you say [P]] (n = 108). Reported speech markers have been studied extensively across various languages communicative contexts. However, situation where speakers report their addressee's remains...

language learners tend to use their mother tongue while learning a second language conducted in error analysis framework, this study was aimed at investigating the persian syntactic errors in pieces of writing of a group of talysh-speaking students in north-and south-anbaran villages in gilan. the participants were third, fourth, and fifth grade elementary school students. the reasons and origi...