A new method for automatic keyword extracting and "role" setting is proposed based on the Japanese sentence structure analysis. The analysis takes into account the following features of Japanese sentences, i.e., the structure of a sentence is determined by the noun-predicate verb dependency, and the case indicating words (kaku-joshi) play an important role in deep case structure. By utilizing t...

We propose a direct interpretation for constraint-based linguistic formalisms in which the notions of derivation and hierarchy give way to the more flexible notion of property satisfaction between categories. Such frameworks define sentence acceptability in terms of the properties that must be satisfied by groups of categories (e.g. English noun phrases can be described in Property Grammar term...

We measured eye movements as people read short stories. The target sentences contained noun/verb homographs (e.g. “duck”) and were preceded by a biasing context sentence. The homograph in the target sentence was always disambiguated by a case-marked pronoun: e.g., “She saw his/him duck.” Lexical bias effects (reflecting the relative frequency of the noun and verb forms) were found in the initia...

In 5 picture-word interference experiments the activation of word class information was investigated. The first experiment, in which subjects used bare nouns to describe the pictures, failed to reveal any interference effect of noun distractor words as opposed to closed-class distractor words. In the next 4 experiments the pictures were named by using a definite determiner and the noun completi...

MF-$0.65 HC-$3.29 *Form Classes (Languages) ; *Nominals; *Paired Associate Learning; *Recall (Psychological); Sentence structure; Structural Analysis; *Structural Grammar Second and sixth graders were asked to learn noun pairs linked by various types of verbal connectives: Verbs, unmarked and marked comparative adjectives, polar antonym adjective pairs, and Conjunctions. Results indicated that ...

The development of Machine Translation system for ancient language such as Sanskrit language is much more fascinating and challenging task. Due to lack of linguistic community, there are no wide work accomplish in Sanskrit translation while it is mother language by virtue of its importance in cultural heritage of India. In this paper, we integrate a traditional rule based approach of machine tr...

One problem with phrase-based statistical machine translation is the problem of longdistance reordering when translating between languages with different word orders, such as Japanese-English. In this paper, we propose a method of imposing reordering constraints using document-level context. As the documentlevel context, we use noun phrases which significantly occur in context documents contain...

We used eye-tracking to investigate if and when children show an incremental bias to assume that the first noun phrase in a sentence is the agent (first-NP-as-agent bias) while processing the meaning of English active and passive transitive sentences. We also investigated whether children can override this bias to successfully distinguish active from passive sentences, after processing the rema...

This experiment examined the time course of integration of modifier-noun (conceptual) combinations during auditory sentence comprehension using cross-modal lexical priming. The study revealed that during ongoing comprehension, there is initial activation of features of the noun prior to activation of (emergent) features of the entire conceptual combination. These results support compositionalit...

During text reading, the parafoveal word was usually presented between 2° and 5° from the point of fixation. Whether semantic information of parafoveal words can be processed during sentence reading is a critical and long-standing issue. Recently, studies using the RSVP-flanker paradigm have shown that the incongruent parafoveal word, presented as right flanker, elicited a more negative N400 co...