The motion events expressions in Chinese have been a controversial topic and few research on them from the developmental perspective. Therefore, based long-term tracking corpus of two Mandarin children SWK WMX their 13 months to 48 months, this paper studies lexicalization children’s process language acquisition reveal unique features event expressions. Research revealed that at age 3, began ex...

Abstract The current study explores how multilingual speakers with three typologically different languages (satellite-framed, verb-framed and equipollent-framed) encode gauge event similarity in the domain of caused motion. Specifically, it addresses whether, to what extent, acquisition an L2-English L3-Japanese reconstructs lexicalization conceptualization patterns established L1-Cantonese whe...

This paper describes a semantic transfer approach called MinT (Minimal Transfer) that has been developed in the speech-to-speech MT system verbmobil. Being a uniication-based and lexicalist semantic transfer model, it relies on some central ideas of the MRS-based transfer approach outlined in Copestake et al., 1995]. It diiers, however, from the latter in certain aspects. In MinT, the idea of a...

In this paper, we present the first incremental parser for Tree Substitution Grammar (TSG). A TSG allows arbitrarily large syntactic fragments to be combined into complete trees; we show how constraints (including lexicalization) can be imposed on the shape of the TSG fragments to enable incremental processing. We propose an efficient Earley-based algorithm for incremental TSG parsing and repor...

We have built a discriminative reordering model for the phrase-based machine translation system Moses, which is developed at the University of Edinburgh. The model is a maximum entropy classifier which incorporates a variety of feature functions to predict phrase orientation for machine translation. Two kinds of features reported in literature, namely lexical features and dependency path featur...

I propose a tree-rewriting grammar formalism, TAGLET, defined by the usual complementation operation and the simplest imaginable modification operation. TAGLET is context free and permits lexicalization of treebank parses (though TAGLET is only weakly equivalent in generative power to general CFGs), as well as straightforward exploration of rich hierarchical syntactic structures and detailed fe...

We describe an existing multilingual information extraction system that automatically detects event information on disasters, conflicts and health threats in near-real time from a continuous flow of on-line news articles. We illustrate a number of strategies for customizing the system to process social media texts such as Twitter messages, which are currently seen as a crucial source of informa...

Although state-of-the-art parsers for natural language are lexicalized, it was recently shown that an accurate unlexicalized parser for the Penn tree-bank can be simply read off a manually refined treebank. While lexicalized parsers often suffer from sparse data, manual mark-up is costly and largely based on individual linguistic intuition. Thus, across domains, languages, and tree-bank annotat...