In this paper we propose a sentence analysis which relies on case-based reasoning principles. Our approach provides a semantic interpretation of a sentence in natural language, which can be used in a textual data mining process. This analysis is based on several types of knowledge: a thesaurus, a case base and a hierarchy of index. We adopt a case-based reasoning model founded on the classifica...

Throughout the development of syntactic theory, it has been widely assumed that sentence structures are represented as a certain type of graph, called a tree. On the basis of a variety of diagnostics, the words in a sentence have been taken to clump together to form hierarchically organized subgroupings, called constituents. Thus, the sentence every child ate some cabbage is assumed to have the...

the main question of the article is whether tens, hundreds or large numbers of people participating in the killing of an individual can be punished in retaliation? is this sentence compatible with the spirit of islam and its policy of criminal justice, or with the minimalistic interpretation in favor of the accused? the author hypothesizes and claims that the permission to retaliation against a...

Safe first-order formulas generalize the concept of a safe rule, which plays an important role in the design of answer set solvers. We show that any safe sentence is equivalent, in a certain sense, to the result of its grounding—to the variable-free sentence obtained from it by replacing all quantifiers with multiple conjunctions and disjunctions. It follows that a safe sentence and the result ...

This paper describes a technique of question type identification for multi-sentence queries in open domain question-answering. Based on observations of queries in real question-answering services on the Web, we propose a method to decompose a multi-sentence query into question items and to identify their question types. The proposed method is an efficient sentence-chunking based technique by us...

Two production studies and one perception study were designed to systematically test F0 alignment and segment duration in Icelandic pitch accents with a view to investigating previous claims about the inventory of distinct intonational categories. Four different conditions were tested: (i) prenuclear pitch accents, (ii) nuclear accents in sentence-final position in sentences with either broad f...