From the viewpoint of multilingual generation, the common underlying knowledge base should be kept clear of language-speciic concepts. This goal presupposes that lexical items of various languages cannot map one-to-one onto concepts all the time. We propose a more exi-ble way of attaching lexical items to conngurations of concepts and roles, and a lexical option nder that determines the set of ...

Compared to words that are new to a discourse, repeated words are produced with reduced acoustic prominence. Although these effects are often attributed to priming in the production system, the locus of the effect within the production system remains unresolved because, in natural speech, repetition often involves repetition of referents and lexical items simultaneously. Therefore, repetition r...

From the viewpoint of multilingual generation, the common underlying knowledge base should be kept clear of language-speciic concepts. This goal presupposes that lexical items of various languages cannot map one-to-one onto concepts all the time. We propose a more exi-ble way of attaching lexical items to conngurations of concepts and roles, and a lexical option nder that determines the set of ...

In this paper, I discuss the distribution and interpretation of free choice items (FCIs) in Greek, a language exhibiting a lexical paradigm of such items distinct from that of negative polarity items. Greek differs in this respect from English which uniformly employs any. FCIs are grammatical only in certain contexts that can be characterized as nonveridical (Giannakidou 1998, 1999), and althou...

While paradigmatic lexical/sense relations are traditionally used to analyse the between lexical items, present article adopts a descriptive qualitative method, based on Cruse’s (2000) classification of relations, find identity and inclusion two items in different texts by using logical entailment relation. The aims at finding out whether or not can be substituted another without changing their...

Communicative alignment refers to adaptation to one’s communication partner. Temporal aspects of such alignment have been little explored. This paper examines temporal aspects of lexical and syntactic alignment (i.e. tendencies to use the interlocutor’s lexical items and syntactic structures) in task-oriented discourse. In particular, we investigate whether lexical and syntactic alignment incre...

The A virtually linked knowledge base is designed to utilize a pre-constructed knowledge base in a dynamic mode when it is in actual use. An algorithm is proposed for causality reasoning based on a set of lexical knowledge bases that contain information about such items as event role, is-a hierarchy, relevant relation, antonym, and other features. These lexical knowledge bases have mainly made ...