Literal and figurative meanings are two ends of a continuum we can not talk about sharp distinction between these meaning types (Dirven, 2002; Gibbs & Colston, 2012; Radden, 2002). Such exhibits different degrees figurativity. Radden (2002) considers this as literal-metonymy-metaphor continuum; where Dirven focuses on conceptual closeness distance the continuum. This study aims to analy...

This study investigates the influence of using five web-based practice units on English verb-noun collocations with the design of a web-based Chinese-English bilingual concordancer (keyword retrieval program) on collocation learning. Thirty-two college EFL students participated by taking a pre-test and two post-tests, and responding to a background questionnaire and an evaluation questionnaire....

In this paper, we aim to learn a semantic database given a text corpus. Specifically, we focus on predicting whether or not a pair of entities are related by the hypernym relation, also known as the 'is-a' or 'type-of' relation. We learn a neural network model for this task. The model is given as input a description of the words and the context from the text corpus in which a pair of nouns (ent...

In this paper we present a study covering the creation of compositional distributional representations for English noun compounds (e.g. computer science) using two compositional models proposed in the literature. The compositional representations are first evaluated based on their similarity to the corresponding corpus-learned representations and then on the task of automatic classification of ...

No event reading Event reading No agent-oriented modifiers Agent-oriented modifiers Subjects are possessives subjects are arguments by phrases are non-arguments by phrases are arguments No implicit argument control Implicit argument control No aspectual modifiers Aspectual modifiers Modifiers like frequent, constant only with plural Modifiers like frequent, constant appear with singular May be ...

The CoNLL-2011 shared task involved predicting coreference using OntoNotes data. Resources in this field have tended to be limited to noun phrase coreference, often on a restricted set of entities, such as ACE entities. OntoNotes provides a large-scale corpus of general anaphoric coreference not restricted to noun phrases or to a specified set of entity types. OntoNotes also provides additional...

This paper presents a method for word sense disambiguation and coherence understanding of prepositional relations. The method relies on information provided by WordNet 1.5. We rst classify preposi-tional attachments according to semantic equivalence of phrase heads and then apply inferential heuristics for understanding the validity of prepositional structures. 1 Problem description In this pap...

Sentiment detection of a given expression involves interaction with its component constituents through rules such as polarity propagation, reversal or neutralization. Such compositionality-based sentiment detection usually performs better than a vote-based bag-ofwords approach. However, in some contexts, the polarity of the adjectival modifier may not always be correctly determined by such rule...

Noun identifications are studied as 'anaphora'. Noun-noun relationships are ambiguous, as are noun-pronoun relations. Generally, nouns must match more 'antecedent' information than pronouns. But noun's 'antecedent' can be more remote. Therefore, the analysis scope of a noun-noun relationship will be larger than that of a noun-pronoun relationship. This expanded scope of analysis may result in e...