Analysis reveals that strange turns of phrase may indicate foul play in science.

grammatic's miracle of the qur'an as a new topic has been studied in this paper. this miracle means that there are the words and phrases in the quran having two or more grammatic states in point of viow of scholars in arabic literature. so that, firstly, all the aspects of sense are accepted and seem reasonable and acceptable and secondly, in light of these states, different meanings ...

N-gram-based models co-exist with their phrase-based counterparts as an alternative SMT framework. Both techniques have pros and cons. While the N-gram-based framework provides a better model that captures both source and target contexts and avoids spurious phrasal segmentation, the ability to memorize and produce larger translation units gives an edge to the phrase-based systems during decodin...

Sentiment composition is the determining of sentiment of a multi-word linguistic unit, such as a phrase or a sentence, based on its constituents. We focus on sentiment composition in phrases formed by at least one positive and at least one negative word—phrases like happy accident and best winter break. We refer to such phrases as opposing polarity phrases. We manually annotate a collection of ...

This paper presents a noun phrase driven two-level statistical machine translation system. Noun phrases (NPs) are used as the unit of decomposition to build a two level hierarchy of phrases. English noun phrases are identified using a parser. The corresponding translations are induced using a statistical word alignment model. Identified noun phrase pairs in the training corpus are replaced with...

In many languages affixes can assign accents on roots to which they attach. Some previous studies have claimed that accents assigned by affixes universally fall on syllables next to the affixes (Kurisu 2001; Revithiadou 2008). Kawahara and Wolf (2010) document a newly-coined suffix which counterexemplifies this generalization: the new Japanese suffix [-zu] assigns an accent on root-initial syll...