Across languages, it is argued that vocative phrases are composed of a head selects noun phrase (NP) or determiner (DP) as its complement. Based on data from Standard Arabic, in addition to selecting NPs and DPs, the study reveals patterns where may select prepositional (PP). This class constructions appears situations speakers calling for help referred nɪdaʔ ʔalʔɪstɪɣaθa ‘Vocative Entreaty.’ f...

Prepositional phrase attachment is a major disambiguation problem when it’s about parsing natural language, for many languages. In this paper a low resources policy is proposed using supervised machine learning algorithms in order to resolve the disambiguation problem of prepositional phrase attachment in Modern Greek. It is a first attempt to resolve prepositional phrase attachment in Modern G...

Reduced hearing acuity is among the most prevalent of chronic medical conditions among older adults. An experiment is reported in which comprehension of spoken sentences was tested for older adults with good hearing acuity or with a mild-to-moderate hearing loss, and young adults with age-normal hearing. Comprehension was measured by participants' ability to determine the agent of an action in ...

The concept of vowel grade by which morphological features in some IndoEuropean languages are signaled by change in the quality of the vowel of a given form has long been recognized. More recently, the term has also been applied to the variation in vowels that occur in some case-marking prepositional forms in Austronesian languages. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate some of the proces...

Phrase reordering is of great importance for statistical machine translation. According to the movement of phrase translation, the pattern of phrase reordering can be divided into three classes: monotone, BTG (Bracket Transduction Grammar) and hierarchy. It is a good way to use different styles of reordering models to reorder different phrases according to the characteristics of both the reorde...

Ill this paper we describe a neural network-based approach to prepositional phrase attachment disam-biguation for real world texts. Although the use of semantic classes in this task seems intuitively to be adequate, methods employed to date have not used them very effectively. Causes of their poor results are discussed. Our model, which uses only classes, scores appreciably better than the othe...