Previous studies have reported anticipatory effects during sentence processing. However, the source of these effects has not been clearly characterized. This study investigated the hypothesis that one source of anticipatory effects, particularly during verb processing, is the automatic triggering of argument structure processes. If argument structure processes are automatically triggered it was...

This study reports the results of a study in which participants were asked to repeat a sentence and produce a tag question (e.g. The girl behind the headmaster got punished, didn't she?). Holding the head noun phrase constant, three properties of the noun phrase within the modifier were manipulated: number (e.g., headmaster, headmasters), gender (e.g., headmaster, headmistress), and animacy (e....

Semantic similarity is a confidence score that replicates semantic equivalence between the meanings of two sentences. Determining the similarity among sentences is one of the critical tasks which have a wide-ranging impact in recent NLP applications. This paper presents a method for identifying semantic sentence similarity among sentences using semantic relation of word senses across the differ...

Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging is the process of assigning a part-of-speech like noun, verb, adjective, adverb, or other lexical class marker to each word in a sentence. This paper presents a POS Tagger for Marathi language text using Rule based approach, which will assign part of speech to the words in a sentence given as an input. We describe our system as the one which tokenizes the string int...

We propose an effective approach to automatically identify predicate heads in Chinese sentences based on statistical pre-processing and rule-based post-processing. In the preprocessing stage, the maximal noun phrases in a sentence are recognized and replaced by “NP” labels to simplify the sentence structure. Then a CRF model is trained to recognize the predicate heads of this simplified sentenc...

The research investigated how word-specific gender stereotype information can be used during language comprehension. In a rating study, the gender stereotypes for 405 noun and noun compounds were assessed. From these norms, 32 words strongly stereotyped to refer mostly to males and 32 words strongly stereotyped to refer mostly to females were selected and used in a reading experiment. Comprehen...

To test predictions of a forward modeling framework for spoken language processing, we characterized effects of context speech rate on the real-time interpretation of indefinite noun phrases using the visual world paradigm. The speech rate of sentence material distal to the onset of the noun phrase was manipulated such that the segments surrounding the determiner a in singular noun phrases had ...

The Malaysian Language is a formation of subject, predicate and object. The subject is the noun that take the action on the object and the predicate is the verb phrase in the sentence. Without a good corpus that can provide the part of speech, parsing is a complex process. As an option to the parsing, this paper discusses a way to identify the subject and the predicate, known as the pola-gramma...

This paper investigates an alternation found with definite noun phrases in direct object position in Romanian that represents a theoretical puzzle for current theories of Differential Object Marking in this language (Gramatica Limbii Române 2005, Klein & de Swart 2011). When in direct object position and unmodified, definite noun phrases can be accompanied either by the differential object mark...

To re-establish picture-sentence verification-discredited possibly for its over-reliance on post-sentence response time (RT) measures-as a task for situated comprehension, we collected event-related brain potentials (ERPs) as participants read a subject-verb-object sentence, and RTs indicating whether or not the verb matched a previously depicted action. For mismatches (vs. matches), speeded RT...