Chinese event descriptive clause splitting is the task of splitting a complex Chinese sentence into several clauses. In this paper, we present a discriminative approach for Chinese event descriptive clause splitting task. By formulating the Chinese clause splitting task as a sequence labeling problem, we apply the structured SVMs model to Chinese clause splitting. Compared with other two baseli...

Model counting is an important problem in artificial intelligence and is applied in several areas of information science. Extension rule is a method which could be used to count models. But it’s not appropriate when clause length is short or clause number is huge. After studying extension rule, we found that the satisfiability problem could be solved by hitting set algorithms. And the models co...

While clause resolution is central to logic programming, practical eeorts to optimize resolution have largely concerned eecient clause indexing. One recent exception is Uniication Factoring 5], which optimizes backtracking through clause heads. Here we consider the problem of optimizing clause resolution in a more general setting than Uniication Factoring. One fundamental change is to use mode ...

This paper deals with prosodic phrasing in two varieties of Argentinean Spanish: porteño (Buenos Aires) and the dialect of Neuquén (Northern Patagonia). Based on recordings of 50 speakers from both places uttering 1000 SVO declaratives (which are syntactically and prosodically branching), we show that several similarities exist between the two varieties with respect to phrasing decisions and bo...

This paper investigates some of the phonetic characteristics of the High Rising Terminal (HRT), a major intonational innovation now attested in numerous dialects of English worldwide. Based on a corpus containing recordings of different geographical varieties of contemporary English, it presents an inventory of the intonation patterns used to realize the HRT. It also suggests that late rising c...

This paper examines the phonetic and phonological properties of the last pitch accent in Catalan single and multi-stressed neutral declaratives. Traditionally, the different F0 patterns observed in single stressed structures (clear F0 peak) and in multistressed structures (progressively falling slope or a strongly lowered F0 peak) have been subject to different phonological interpretations (H* ...

This paper deals with F0 declination in Russian. The study was conducted using statistical data derived from the Corpus of Professionally Read Speech. The results confirm the relationship between F0 slope and the utterance length for Russian. At the same time they reveal a) individual strategies in preplanning declination slope of the phrase or utterance; b) strong dependency of the F0 slope on...

This paper investigates intonational variation in Liverpool English, a dialect of British English that is recognised as having a number of distinctive phonetic characteristics [15, 16]. One previously reported aspect of Liverpool intonation is the presence of rising contours in declaratives as part of the traditional dialect [7]. Here we present a phonological Autosegmental Metrical analysis [9...

The paper surveys the domain of polar interrogation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective. An overview of the ways in which polar interrogation is marked in the world’s languages is presented and the encoding of the domain in Uralic languages is examined against this background. All the major types of polar interrogative marking are found in the family. Polar interrogatives...