Noun as Modifier in Nominal Group: a Functional Grammar Approach

German Noun Class as a Nominal Protection Device

MELB-KB: Nominal Classification as Noun Compound Interpretation

In this paper, we outline our approach to interpreting semantic relations in nominal pairs in SemEval-2007 task #4: Classification of Semantic Relations between Nominals. We build on two baseline approaches to interpreting noun compounds: sense collocation, and constituent similarity. These are consolidated into an overall system in combination with co-training, to expand the training data. Our...

Semi-Automatic Recognition of Noun Modifier Relationships

Semantic relationships among words and phrases are often marked by explicit syntactic or lexical clues that help recognize such relationships in texts. Within complex nominals, however, few overt clues are available. Systems that analyze such nominals must compensate for the lack of surface clues with other information. One way is to load the system with lexical semantics for nouns or adjective...

Towards a Grammar of Preposition-Noun Combinations

Preposition-noun combinations (PNCs) are compositional and productive, but not fully regular. In school grammars and many theoretical approaches, PNCs are neglected, but they have recently been addressed in an HPSG analysis by Baldwin et al. (2006). After discussing some basic properties of PNCs, we show that statistical methods can be employed to prove that PNCs are indeed productive and compo...

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...