Wedle tradycyjnego opisu, polskie abstrakcyjne rzeczowniki odprzymiotnikowe (nomina essendi), takie jak np. lekkość czy jasność, są zbudowane z przymiotnikowego tematu i przyrostka -ość. Artykuł rozważa alternatywną analizę, wedle której -o-ść jest przyrostkiem złożonym, a tworzone nim przechodzą przez etap przysłówkowy, czyniąc je formami o strukturze [[[ A ] Adv N ]. Możliwość złożoności suge...

Tense, temporal adverbs, and temporal connectives provide information about when events described in English sentences occur. To extract this temporal information from a sentence, it must be parsed into a semantic representation which captures the meaning of tense, temporal adverbs, and temporal connectives. Representations were developed for the basic tenses, some temporal adverbs, as well as ...

In the current paper, we employ a novel Shadow Play Paradigm in order to test Romanian monolingual adults’ sensitivity truth and informativeness investigate their ability derive implicatures with epistemic adverbs. We show that implicature rates adverbs are higher when participants asked reward characters depending on of statements rather than whether what they say is best description situation...

Cats are nice. (: : :) because cats never overlap. Abstract In this paper we discuss two approaches to adverbial quantiication, the so-called`bound variable approach' and thèsituation-based approach', and we address the suggestion that has been made in the literature that the latter reduces to the former as soon as the underlying structure of situations has been characterized at the required le...

Ranking blog posts that express opinions regarding a given topic should serve a critical function in helping users. We explored three types of opinion retrieval methods in the framework of probabilistic language models. The first method combines topic-relevance model and opinion-relevance model that captures topic dependence of the opinion expressions. The second method makes use of probability...