This study has attempted to examine the value of night in English poetry Romantic period (1757–1822). It aimed establish how writers highlight and images nature involved creating this value, while also realising importance life, according poems examined study. Three (1757–1822), were used as data for current The analysed quantitatively – occurrence expressions, words phrases highlighting record...

A new architecture for identifying and interpreting temporal expressions is introduced, in which the large set of complex hand-crafted rules standard in systems for this task is replaced by a series of machine learned classifiers and a much smaller set of context-independent semantic composition rules. Experiments with the TERN 2004 data set demonstrate that overall system performance is compar...

Abs t rac t We present a machine-learning approach to modeling the distribution of noun phrases (NPs) within clauses with respect to a finegrained taxonomy of grammatical relations. We demonstrate that a cluster of superficial linguistic features can function as a proxy for more abstract discourse features that are not observable using state-of-the-art natural language processing. The models co...

Approaches to natural language processing that use a phrasal lexicon have the advantage of easily handling linguistic constructions that might otherwise be extragrammatical. However, current phrasal lexicons are often too rigid: their phrasal entries fail to cover the more flexible constructions. FLUSH, for Flexible Lexicon Utilizing Specialized and Hierarchical knowledge, is a knowledge-based ...

In this paper we present a statistical profile of the Named Enti ty task, a specific information extraction task for which corpora in several languages are available. Using the results of the statistical analysis, we propose an algorithm for lower bound est imation for Named Enti ty corpora and discuss the significance of the cross-lingual comparisons provided by the analysis. 1 T h e Named Ent...

Intensifiers are adverbials or adverbial phrases that used to enhance the meanings of certain constructions. The study aims investigate English intensifiers and their functions as devices emotional enhancement .Moreover; they identify students with this grammatical item. significance research is function linguistic maximize meaning or, in a sense, intensify tone words expressions. Some commonly...

Kronfeld's book attacks the problem of referring: How do speakers reveal what entities they are talking about? How do they choose particular referring expressions in their utterances? These questions are asked from the perspective of a plan-based theory of speech acts and communication. Utterances are viewed as acts that are intended by speakers to have certain effects on the addressees, and on...