1 Last week: stochastic part-of-speech tagging Last week we reviewed parts-of-speech, which are linguistic categories of words. These categories are defined in terms of syntactic or morphological behaviour. Parts-of-speech for English traditionally include: Nouns are concrete or abstract entity; Pronouns substitute for nouns; Adjective modify nouns; Verbs are actions or states of being; Adverbs...

To recognize effectively the polarity of Chinese sentences using Chinese appraisers, degree adverbs, and negations, this article presents a new rule-based method. First, the method combines three types Chinese words into the pre-defined rules; it employs the word distances of those rules as constraints; it utilizes the strengths of appraisers and degree adverbs as items of the rules. Then, it u...

According to recent studies, there is a persistence of adverb placement errors in the written productions of francophone learners and users of English at an intermediate to advanced level. In this paper, we present strategies for the automatic detection and correction of errors in the placement of manner adverbs, using linguistic-based natural language processing (NLP) techniques in the <TextCo...

This paper presents a simple method for performing a lexical analysis of agglutinative languages like Korean, which have a heavy morphology. Especially, for nouns and adverbs with regular morphological modifications and/or high productivity, we do not need to artificially construct huge dictionaries of all inflected forms of lemmas. To construct a dictionary of lemmas and lexical transducers, f...

Stance-taking is considered as one of the fundamental properties of human communication (Jaffe, 2009). It is pervasive, intersubjective, and collaborative. While a good deal of research has investigated the expression of stance in English, much less has been done in Chinese. In this study, we draw upon the five-million-word Academia Sinica Balanced Corpus of Modern Chinese to investigate a comp...

This article discusses the semantics of before, with special reference to socalled non-factual before and its interaction with adverbs of quantification. I will adopt a version of Anscombe’s (1964) analysis of before and supplement it with a modal-temporal presupposition lexically induced by before. This account will be extended to quantificational cases as well within Rooth’s (1985) theory of ...