From Marco Polo to Richard Nixon, narratives of the encounter between Chinese and Westerners have been defining texts of European cultures and their descendants. Successive but sporadic reports from travellers, missionaries, diplomats, traders and others have provided a model of an alternative way of arranging people, of organizing their lives, of thinking about the state of being human; one th...

this study examined whether processing ambiguous sentences containing relative clauses (rcs) following a complex determiner phrase (dp) by persian-speaking learners of l2 english with different proficiency and working memory capacities (wmcs) is affected by semantic priming. the semantic relationship studied was one between the subject/verb of the main clause and one of the dps in the complex d...

This paper describes the process of building and using a new comprehensive lexicon of Czech verb valency frames based on complex valency frames. The main features of the lexicon entries are designed to bring important semantic information to computer processing of predicate constructions in running texts. The most notable features include two-level semantic labels with linkage to the Princeton ...

This paper presents work on the semantic annotation of a multimodal corpus of English television news. The annotation is performed on the second-by-secondaligned transcript layer, adding verb frame categories and semantic roles on top of a morphosyntactic analysis with full dependency information. We use a rulebased method, where Constraint Grammar mapping rules are automatically generated from...

This article presents PFN-PT, a robust system for the automatic semantic annotation of Portuguese, consisting new, parsing-oriented framenet and rule-based frame- role-tagger. The provides almost 13,000 valency frames covering 7,300 verb lemmas with 10,700 senses. Frame role tagging is achieved by iterated matching syntactic structures noun types slot-filler conditions in framenet. We discuss d...