For an 8,300-word sample of English text we have found that it is possible to provide at least an acceptable article for more than 90 per cent of the noun occurrences at a "cost" of providing a dual article for half of the occurrences. This can be achieved by making use of the following relatively simple criteria for article selection: (1) prior classification of nouns according to the articles...

This paper identifies some linguistic properties of technical terminology, and uses them to formulate an algorithm for identifying technical terms in running text. The grammatical properties discussed are preferred phrase structures: technical terms consist mostly of noun phrases containing adjectives, nouns, and occasionally prepositions; rarely do terms contain verbs, adverbs, or conjunctions...

The paper presents automatic translation of noun phrases from Punjabi to English using transfer approach. The system has analysis, translation and synthesis component. The steps involved are pre processing, tagging, ambiguity resolution, translation and synthesis of words in target language. The accuracy is calculated for each step and the overall accuracy of the system is calculated to be abou...

Embedded noun phrase structures are frequently used in the Japanese language because embedded sentences make modified noun phrases more expressive. In embedded noun phrase structures, a noun phrase modified by an embedded sentence is usually created by extraposing the case, such as the subjective case, of the sentence. In contrast, there is another type of embedded noun phrase structure. In thi...

Upon hearing a scalar adjective in a definite referring expression such as " the big…, " listeners typically interpret the speaker to be referring to an item in a contrast set denoted by the scalar adjective, such as a big glass in the context of a smaller glass. This inference guides online visual search for a referent, resulting in anticipatory eye-movements to the target object when a contra...

Hebrew •includes a very productive noun-compounding construction called smixut. Because smixut is marked morphologically and is restricted by many syntactic constraints, it has been the focus of many descriptive studies in Hebrew grammar. We present the treatment of smixut in HUGG, a FUF-based syntactic realization system capable of producing complex noun phrases in Hebrew. We contrast the trea...

Compressed and implicit nominal phrases as syntactic features of academic writing (Biber & Gray, 2010, 2016) are underexplored in L2 research writing. In this study, I cross-examined attributive adjectives, prepositional phrases, noun premodifiers, appositive nouns qualitative quantitative articles (RAs) authored by Filipino writers (FRWs) across Applied Linguistics, Measurement Evaluation,...

We argue that the superlative modifiers at least and at most quantify over a scale of answers to the current question under discussion (and in this sense, resolve issues), and that they draw attention to the individual possibilities along the scale (and in this sense, raise issues for discussion). The point of departure is a simple analysis on which at least denotes what only presupposes, and a...