One of the defining properties of Marshallese (Austronesian, Oceanic, Micronesian) long passives is that they allow one of two prepositions in what roughly corresponds to English by phrases. These prepositions are ippa:n and in. Although the semantics of these two prepositions appears to be identical in passives (i.e. both introduce an agent phrase), there are syntactic differences between sent...

Verbs (in lemma form) and syntactic frames are automatically extracted from the ATB.! In order to acquire an argument structure for the verbs,!I only considered structure that is internal to the maximal Verb Phrase (VP) projection of the verb. However, within the VP, all sisters of the verb are excluded except for those in a close semantic relationship to the verb.! This is facilitated by the f...

A pattern in the translation of locative prepositional phrases between English and Spanish is presented. A way of exploiting this pattern is proposed in the context of a multilingual machine translation system under development. I n t r o d u c t i o n Two of the main problems in machine translation (MT) are ambiguity and lexical gaps. Ambiguity occurs when a word in the source language (SL) ha...

A pattern in the translation of locative prepositional phrases between English and Spanish is presented. A way of exploiting this pattern is proposed in the context of a multilingual machine translation system under development. I n t r o d u c t i o n Two of the main problems in machine translation (MT) are ambiguity and lexical gaps. Ambiguity occurs when a word in the source language (SL) ha...

Coreference resolution involves finding antecedents for anaphoric discourse entities, such as definite noun phrases. But many definite noun phrases are not anaphoric because their meaning can be understood from general world knowledge (e.g., "the White House" or "the news media"). We have developed a corpus-based algorithm for automatically identifying definite noun phrases that are non-anaphor...