This paper describes a method of the zero pronouns resolution and shows the application of the method for estimating zero pronouns. In our related works, we have obtained the method of zero pronouns resolution which uses pragmatic properties of Japanese conditionals. We built a system based on our method. With our system, we examine Japanese manual sentences, and we con rmed that the method wor...

in this paper, a novel hybrid model based on neural network and game theory is proposed to support the analyzers in oil market. in this model, first the neural network is utilized to learn the oil prices associated with opec production level and usa imports level. then the learned neural network is applied by a game model. finally the nash equilibrium points of the game present the optimum deci...

The use of subject pronouns by bilingual speakers using both a pro-drop and a non-pro-drop language (e.g. Spanish heritage speakers in the USA) is a well-studied topic in research on cross-linguistic influence in language contact situations. Previous studies looking at bilinguals with different proficiency levels have yielded conflicting results on whether there is transfer from the non-pro-dro...

Recent research suggests that pronoun interpretation is guided by the semantic coherence relations between clauses. However, it is not yet wellunderstood whether coherence effects extend to other anaphoric expressions beyond pronouns. We report an experiment on German, a language in which human antecedents can be referred to both with personal and demonstrative pronouns. How do anaphoric demons...

This paper investigates the causes of the comparatively low success rates in finding the antecedents of plural pronouns as compared to finding antecedents of singular pronouns. We are trying to show experimentally that considering morphological agreement as a strong constraint in pronoun resolution results in the erroneous interpretation of almost a quarter of the plural pronouns. The work is b...

Introduction: This paper presents an experiment that investigates which factors govern the referring preferences of two types of subject pronouns in Catalan: null pronouns, with no phonological content, and overt pronouns, which carry gender and number features. Since it is generally assumed that the more reduced an anaphoric expression is, the more salient its antecedent will be (Ariel, 2001),...

In this paper I propose a unified account of two phenomena that have so far only been treated independently of each other: (I.) the strong tendency of German demonstrative pronouns (henceforth: D-pronouns or DEM) like der and die to be resolved to antecedents that have not been maximally salient in the preceding sentence, and (II.) the fact that D-pronouns cannot be interpreted as syntactically...

This paper, presents an adapted serious game for rating social ability in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The required measurements are obtained by challenges of the proposed serious game. The proposed serious game uses reinforcement learning concepts for being adaptive. It is based on fuzzy logic to evaluate the social ability level of the children with ASD. The game adapts itsel...

This paper reports the results of a first-pass annotation exercise of third-person pronouns in the TRAINS spoken dialog corpus. Our research goal is to disambiguate demonstrative pronouns that/this, and the annotation project is undertaken with the intent to find surface features that can be used to strongly prefer/disprefer certain potential referents. Pragmatic differences between demonstrati...