Recent theories of concepts have raised the issue of how people combine simple concepts (like engine and repalr) to form complex concepts (like engine repalr). This article approaches this issue by asking how people comprehend modified noun phrases of this sort. One explanation of how complex concepts are understood (the feature weighting model) provides a simple mechanism in which the primary ...

I present a computationally-based representation for inde nite noun phrases and anaphora that models their use in natural language. To this end, three goals for knowledge representation for natural language processing: natural form, conceptual completeness, and structure sharing are described. In addressing these goals, an augmentation to the representation of variables (corresponding to inde n...

The concept of vowel grade by which morphological features in some IndoEuropean languages are signaled by change in the quality of the vowel of a given form has long been recognized. More recently, the term has also been applied to the variation in vowels that occur in some case-marking prepositional forms in Austronesian languages. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate some of the proces...

94304 Abstract The paper describes an algorithm that employs English and French text taggers to associate noun phrases in an aligned bilingual corpus. The tag-gets provide part-of-speech categories which are used by finite-state recognizers to extract simple noun phrases for both languages. Noun phrases are then mapped to each other using an iterative re-estimation algorithm that bears similari...


 This chapter provides a description of noun phrases in the Ardalāni variety Sorani Kurdish. In Kurdish, surface word order within Noun Phrase is head initial and post-nominal modifiers are linked to phrase by linking element called Ezafe (Windfuhr 1989). We show that realization phonologically conditioned Ardalāni, unlike other varieties However, crucially, we definite contexts, obligato...

The present article aims to provide a synchronic study of the inflectional or morpho-syntactic categories of noun in Sistani dialect. These categories comprise person, number, gender or noun class, definiteness, case, and possession. Linguistic data was collected via recording free speech, and interviewing with 30 (15 females, 15 males) illiterate Sistani language consultants of age 40–102 year...

Since the professional technical literature include amounts of complex noun phrases, identifying those phrases has an important practical value for such tasks as machine translation. Through analysis of those phrases in Chinese-English bilingual sentence pairs from the aircraft technical publications, we present an annotation specification based on the existing specification to label those phra...

The paper presents an outline of a system for grammatical tagging of the London-Lund Corpus of spoken English consisting of some 450 000 words. The material, all of which will be available on magnetic computer tape, and part of which is now available in both machinereadable and printed form, has been transcribed orthographically with prosodic marking for tone units, nuclei, stresses, pauses, et...

Concealed question noun phrases headed by the definite article have been analysed as contributing the intension of the noun phrase –an individual concept– as semantic argument of the verb. Concealed questions with quantifiers challenge this analysis. Several empirical observations will be presented and an analysis will be sketched that treats this quantification as external to the concealed que...