Idiomatic utterances contribute by virtue of their aspectual class to the temporal structure of discourse – hence it is essential that theories of aspect derivation and discourse structure should encompass them. A recent claim has been made (McGinnis 2002) that the aspectual class of idiomatic expressions can be derived compositionally, by the same process as in literal language. We examine thi...

There is plenty of evidence that emotion analysis has many valuable applications. In this study a blog emotion corpus is constructed for Chinese emotional expression analysis. This corpus contains manual annotation of eight emotional categories (expect, joy, love, surprise, anxiety, sorrow, angry and hate), emotion intensity, emotion holder/target, emotional word/phrase, degree word, negative w...

We describe a computational model for planning phrases like “more than a quarter” and “25.9 per cent” which describe proportions at different levels of precision. The model lays out the key choices in planning a numerical description, using formal definitions of mathematical form (e.g., the distinction between fractions and percentages) and roundness adapted from earlier studies. The task is mo...

This paper is an attempt to clarify the status of discourse markers. These lexical expressions have been studied under various labels, including discourse markers, discourse connectives, discourse operators, pragmatic connectives, sentence connectives, and cue phrases. Although most researchers agree that they are expressions which relate discourse segments, there is no agreement on how they ar...

In this paper, we present a novel approach for mining opinions from product reviews, where it converts opinion mining task to identify product features, expressions of opinions and relations between them. By taking advantage of the observation that a lot of product features are phrases, a concept of phrase dependency parsing is introduced, which extends traditional dependency parsing to phrase ...

In order to accomplish the deep semantic understanding of a language, it is essential to analyze the meaning of predicate phrases, a content word plus functional expressions. In agglutinating languages such as Japanese, however, sentential predicates are multi-morpheme expressions and all the functional expressions including those unnecessary to the meaning of the predicate are merged into one ...

Thesaurus, which links between linguistic expressions (or concepts) based on various semantic relations, is one of the most fundamental semantic resources in a broad range of NLP tasks. A lot of work has been carried out relying on thesauri, such asWordNet (Miller, 1995) and automatically created versions of it. The entries of most existing thesauri are either single words or word sequences inc...

Although grammarians traditionally consider names and quantifier expressions (“something”, “everything”, etc.) as belonging to the noun phrases category, logicians usually treat quantifiers as operators, i.e., as expressions of a different category from the name category. In this brief and valuable paper, logical differences between names and quantifiers are studied on a deductive level while a...

This paper presents the two instruction generation systems submitted by the team TALARIS at INRIA-Nancy to the GIVE2 challenge 2010. The first system (NM) aims to provide high-level instructions by giving freedom to the user and relies on an extension of the Dale and Reiter’s incremental algorithm to generate the referring expressions. The second system (NA) uses a more constrained directive na...

In this chapter Evans’ does several things. First, he introduces Frege’s semantic theory, according to which the meaningfulness of expressions in language is explained by assigning to these expressions two kinds of entities. First, a referent, the entity that the expression refers to. And second, a sense, which is glossed as a special proprietary way that someone must think of the referent if t...