This paper puts forward an analysis of scope interactions between Japanese adverbial quantifiers like mainichi 'everyday' and tokidoki 'sometimes' and a negative morpheme nai 'not' on the basis of Aocus)-structures. In this analysis, three f-structures are assigned to a sentence with an adverbial quantifier and a negative morpheme. One of them represents a negation-wide reading, and the other t...

This paper presents how to mine formulation rules from a named organization corpus. The TEIRESIAS algorithm, which is widely used in bioinformatics domain, is adopted. The experimental results based on MET2 test bed show that the approach of regarding the morpheme of a keyword as a cluster is the best, the approach of regarding all the keywords as the same cluster is the next, and the approach ...

This paper introduces Uighur morpheme segmentation, which is a basic part of the comprehensive effort of the Uighur language corpus compilation, conducted at Xinjiang University in cooperation with Kyoto University. Uighur is an agglutinative language with word structures formed by productive affixation of derivational and inflectional suffixes to stems. Derivational suffixes change the meaning...

The category of number is present in many languages of the world. The category encodes whether a linguistic expression refers to one or more referents and it is used primarily with nouns, e. g. car vs. cars. In addition to that, many languages possess various agreement morphemes that mark number information on elements other than nouns, such as adjectives or verbs. One question in language acqu...