This paper proposes the definition, classification and structure of the Kazakh basic phrases, and sets up a framework for classifying them according to their syntactic functions. Meanwhile, the structure of the Kazakh basic phrases were analyzed; and the determination of the Kazakh basic phrases collocation and extraction of the Kazakh basic phrases based on rules were followed. The Maximum Ent...

In Pollard and Sag (1994) and Ginzburg and Sag (2000) phrases are either headed or non-headed, and if they are headed, there is a relation of selection between the daughters: either the head daughter selects its non-head sister(s), as in the phrases of type head-complements, or the non-head daughter selects its head sister, as in the phrases of type head-adjunct. In the non-headed phrases, by c...

The problem of manual ly modifying the lexicon appears with any na tura l language processing program. Ideally, a program should be able to acquire new lexieal entries from context, the way people learn. We address the problem of acquiring entire phrases, specifically Jigurative phr~es, through augment ing a phr~al lezico~ Facilitating such a self-extending lexicon involves (a) disambiguation~s...