INTRODUCTION Neuroimaging and lesion studies indicate a left hemisphere network for verb and verb argument structure processing, involving both frontal and temporoparietal brain regions. Although their verb comprehension is generally unimpaired, it is well known that individuals with agrammatic aphasia often present with verb production deficits, characterized by an argument structure complexit...

This article explores the question of why competent evaluators award the ratings they do to college students' expository essays. Essays were rewritten to be stronger or weaker in four categories: content, organization, sentence structure, and mechanics. Twelve evaluators first used a 4-point holistic rating scale to judge the essays' quality. Then they rated whether each of the four rewriting c...

This paper proposes an analysis method for Japanese modality. In this purpose, meaning of Japanese modality is classified into four semantic categories and the role of it is formalized into five modality functions. Based on these formalizations, information and constraints to be applied to the modality analysis procedure are specified. Then by combining these investigations with case analysis, ...

In statistical machine translation, the fundamental problem of word alignment is the process of finding word-to-word connections (i.e. translations) across languages given a sentence in one language and its translation in another. In more formal terms, given a source-language sentence F of n words (f1, f2, ..., fn) and a target-language sentence E of m words (e1, e2, ..., em), an alignment is a...

This paper investigates whether sentence structure analysis—examining who appears in subject versus object position— can illuminate who academic articles portray as having agency in labor relations. We extract subjects and objects from a corpus of 3,800 academic articles, and compare both the relative occurrence of different groups (workers, women, employers) in each position and the verbs that...

This paper presents several new empirical observations regarding some interpretive effects and structural restrictions of modals that occur in sentence-initial positions Chinese. It provides a analysis modal sentences terms the overt head-movement to sentence periphery value strong focus features focus-mark either proposition or subject sentence. proposal helps explain markedness exhibited by s...

VSM is a mature model of text representation for categorization. Words are commonly used as dimensions of feature space of VSM, but words only provide little semantic information. Sentence category theory is an important component of HNC theory and can provide abundant information about meaning, structure and style of a sentence. We use sentence categories as dimensions of feature space, reduce...

The hypothesized role of Broca's area in sentence processing ranges from domain-general executive function to domain-specific computation that is specific to certain syntactic structures. We examined this issue by manipulating syntactic structure and conflict between syntactic and semantic cues in a sentence processing task. Functional neuroimaging revealed that activation within several Broca'...