The Author Profiling (AP) task aims to distinguish between groups of authors labeled by a common demographic characteristic such as gender or age by studying the language usage. In this work we studied the role of personal phrases (i.e., sentences containing first person pronouns) for the AP task. We support the idea that people better expose their personal interests and writing style when they...

Children's poor performance on object relative clauses has been explained in terms of intervention locality. This approach predicts that object relatives with a full DP head and an embedded pronominal subject are easier than object relatives in which both the head noun and the embedded subject are full DPs. This prediction is shared by other accounts formulated to explain processing mechanisms....

3 Detailed Guidelines 8 3.1 Idioms and Near Idioms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.2 Referring Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.2.1 Pronouns and Definite Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.2.2 Resumptive Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

In this paper, we discuss how to identify three important features by our empirical observation gender and number features of antecedent as well as grammatical role of personal pronoun, which have no overt mark in Chinese. Only a tagger with extended POS set and some special word-lists are used. Finally, We describe an implemented prototypical system to resolve personal pronouns. Evaluation sho...

The style of narrative news affects how it is interpreted and received by readers. Two key stylistic characteristics of narrative text are point of view and diegesis: respectively, whether the narrative recounts events personally or impersonally, and whether the narrator is involved in the events of the story. Although central to the interpretation and reception of news, and of narratives more ...

This paper describes two studies on the effectiveness of Controlled Language (CL) rules for MT. Both studies investigated the language pair English-German and used corpora from the IT domain. However, they differ in terms of the MT engines employed (Systran vs. IBM WebSphere) and the evaluative methodologies used. Study A examines the effectiveness of CL rules by measuring temporal, technical a...

Three experiments examined the hypothesis that it preferentially refers to the most salient entity in a discourse, whereas that preferentially refers to a conceptual composite. In Experiment 1, eye movements were monitored as participants followed spoken instructions such as, Put the cup on the saucer. Now put it/that. . .. The preferred referent was the theme (cup) for it and the composite for...

[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 109(3) of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (see record 2015-37773-002). The authors erroneously reported the overall correlation, first stated in the abstract, between Narcissism and total first-person-singular use as .02 (.017) instead of .01 (.010). The misreporting of the overall correlation between Narcissism an...

Elaborating one of the points of his Coling ~onn 1986 paper, the author discusses prononfn~lity, which is due to a special semantic stratum, singulatire identifieational deixis. Personal, reflexive and interrogative pronouns have additional transn[issional deictic markings, but singulative identificational pronominality alone has a direct anaphorie effect and tends to reinforce syntactically. T...