Animacy, Anaphora and Language Change in Swedish

NP Animacy Identification for Anaphora Resolution

In anaphora resolution for English, animacy identification can play an integral role in the application of agreement restrictions between pronouns and candidates, and as a result, can improve the accuracy of anaphora resolution systems. In this paper, two methods for animacy identification are proposed and evaluated using intrinsic and extrinsic measures. The first method is a rule-based one wh...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Book Review: Innovation and Change in English Language Education

  It is widely accepted that today’s technological world is moving in a much more speed than the past, which requires the skill of keeping up with the pace of change. This change and innovation is a must for all organizations. According to Shen (2008, p. 73), this change is trickier in the educational context, where "the nature of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of those i...

Anaphora and the Logi of Change

Anaphora and the Logic of Change

There are three major currents in semantic theory these days. First there is what Chierchia [1990] aptly calls “what is alive of classical Montague semantics”. Secondly, there is Discourse Representation Theory. Thirdly, there is Situation Semantics. Each of these three branches of formal semantics has its own specialities and its particular focuses of interest. Each can boast of its own succes...