Measure Noun constructions: An instance of semantically-driven grammaticalization

Using Noun Similarity to Adapt an Acceptability Measure for Persian Light Verb Constructions

Light verb constructions (LVCs), such as take a walk and make a decision, are a common subclass of multiword expressions (MWEs), whose distinct syntactic and semantic properties call for a special treatment within a computational system. In particular, LVCs are formed semi-productively: often a semantically-general verb (such as take) combines with a number of semantically-similar nouns to form...

Grammatical number in numeral-noun constructions

A common assumption in current generative literature on cardinal numerals is that, with few exceptions, the structural relation between a numeral and the noun that it combines with is uniform, cross-linguistically as well as language-internally. Thus, the debate whether numerals are heads that select a projection of the noun as their complements (Ionin and Matushansky 2006), or specifiers of an...

Semantically Driven Automatic Hyperlinking

K*: An Instance-based Learner Using an Entropic Distance Measure

The use of entropy as a distance measure has several benefits. Amongst other things it provides a consistent approach to handling of symbolic attributes, real valued attributes and missing values. The approach of taking all possible transformation paths is discussed. We describe K*, an instance-based learner which uses such a measure, and results are presented which compare favourably with seve...

Target Driven Instance Detection

While state-of-the-art general object detectors are getting better and better, there are not many systems specifically designed to take advantage of the instance detection problem. For many applications, such as household robotics, a system may need to recognize a few very specific instances at a time. Speed can be critical in these applications, as can the need to recognize previously unseen i...