In the literature on verbal human-computer interaction there is general consent that humans’ preconceptualisations of the machine’s capabilities lead to conceptual and syntactic simplifications of the language used. We present a Wizard of Oz / Confederate study where humans communicate with either a system or an expert in a localization task in a complex building, in a setting which encourages ...

Despite the high productivity in English of denominal verb formation by conversion, a constraint on possible interpretations is identified: intransitive denominal conversion verbs are infelicitous where the source nominal is intended to be an incremental theme (#apple ‘eat apple’), a patient (#shirt ‘wear shirt’), or the holder of a result state (#window ‘open window’). This little-studied cons...

In this paper, we propose ellipsis handling method for follow-up questions in Information Access Dialogue (IAD) task of NTCIR QAC3. In this method, our system classifies ellipsis patterns of question sentences into three types and recognizes elliptical elements using ellipsis handling algorithm for each type. In the evaluation using Formal Run and Reference Run data, there were several cases wh...

Interpreting a verb-phrase ellipsis (VP ellipsis) requires accessing an antecedent in memory, and then integrating a representation of this antecedent into the local context. We investigated the online interpretation of VP ellipsis in an eye-tracking experiment and four speed–accuracy tradeoff experiments. To investigate whether the antecedent for a VP ellipsis is accessed with a search or dire...

abstractthis study focused mainly on the shifts of the grammatical cohesion in texts translated from english into persian. it aimed to identify the grammatical cohesive devices (gcds) in st and tt separately, based on halliday and hassn's model (1976), determine the number of occurrences of gcds in two texts and finally, illustrate types of shifts of grammatical cohesion and strategies used in ...

This article provides an overview of Spanish SE, covering the main empirical facts, analyses and theoretical issues that it raises, exploring prospects to unify all uses –which are over a dozen in literature– under one same object keeps its surface properties invariable. We will show is almost inescapable propose SE associated two types objects, defective arguments verbal heads; both objects sh...

Exposure to verb phrase ellipsis in English with double-object or prepositional ditransitive antecedents affects syntactic choices in subsequent sentence production, inducing speakers to favor the production of structures parallel to that to which the ellipsis is anaphoric. This result is readily explanable only if ellipsis sites contain or trigger access to syntactic structure (which causes pr...