An ideal way for people to query graph-based knowledge, including triplestores in the semantic web, would be for them to ask questions in a natural language (NL). However, existing NL query interfaces to graph-based data have limited expressive power and cannot accommodate arbitrarilynested quantification (i.e. phrases such as “a gangster who joined every gang”) together with multiple complex p...

References to geographic locations are common in text data sources including social media and web pages. They take different forms from simple place names relative expressions that describe location through a spatial relationship reference object (e.g. the house beside Waikato River). Often complex, multi-word phrases employed road railway cross at right angles; line with canal) where relations...

This paper introduces a compositional semantics of locative prepositional phrases which is based on a vector space ontology. Model-theoretic properties of prepositions like monotonicity and conservativity are defined in this system in a straightforward way. These notions are shown to describe central inferences with spatial expressions and to account for the grammaticality of preposition modifi...

In natural language and especially in spontaneous speech, people often group words in order to constitute phrases which become usual expressions. This is due to phonological (to make the pronunciation easier), or to semantic reasons (to remember more easily a phrase by assigning a meaning to a block of words). Classical language models do not adequately take into account such phrases. A better ...

We present a novel unsupervised approach to detecting the compositionality of multi-word expressions. We compute the compositionality of a phrase through substituting the constituent words with their “neighbours” in a semantic vector space and averaging over the distance between the original phrase and the substituted neighbour phrases. Several methods of obtaining neighbours are presented. The...

The given work is focused on the principal ways by which new words and expressions enter the Chinese Internet language, the sources of new meanings for old words and phrases; neologisms and chengyu with modified meaning and structure. Some new tendencies in developing of the Chinese Internet language, such as wide use of dialect-originated words, archaic characters and monosyllabic words, are i...

In January 1996, we started a project to construct a Japanese parsed corpus and to simultaneously improve a morphological analyzer and a parser. In this project, human annotators are not only correcting the erroneous analyses produced by the parsing system, but also improving the parsing system/grammar: nding problematic xed expressions, picking up phrases which have exceptional functions, and ...

Sophisticated senator and legislative onion. Whether or not you have ever heard of these things, we all have some intuition that one of them makes much less sense than the other. In this paper, we introduce a large dataset of human judgments about novel adjective-noun phrases. We use these data to test an approach to semantic deviance based on phrase representations derived with compositional d...