THE events of the past 2 yr since the initial controversial publication by Mangano et al. regarding the effect of aprotinin on renal failure and mortality have been of great interest to the anesthesiology community. In this issue of ANESTHESIOLOGY, Dietrich et al. test the hypothesis that any potential nephrotoxic effect of aprotinin (Bayer Healthcare Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is dose dep...

the study of the meaning is the oldest intellectual concerns of human over time and in various cultures and civilizations. the meaning have occupid the chiness and indian thinkers and philosophers of the greeks and romans during centuries. the arab and muslim linguists and others mostly shared in study of many issues related to meaning of the words. arab’s linguistic research has focus on deter...

We address the question of which syntactic representation is best suited for role-semantic analysis of English in the FrameNet paradigm. We compare systems based on dependencies and constituents, and a dependency syntax with a rich set of grammatical functions with one with a smaller set. Our experiments show that dependency-based and constituent-based analyzers give roughly equivalent performa...

Copula constructions are problematic in the syntax of most languages. The paper describes three different dependency syntactic methods for handling copula constructions: function head, content head and complex label analysis. Furthermore, we also propose a POS-based approach to copula detection. We evaluate the impact of these approaches in computational parsing, in two parsing experiments for ...