This paper presents the details of a pilot study in which we tagged portions of the American National Corpus (ANC) for idioms composed of verb-noun constructions, prepositional phrases, and subordinate clauses. The three data sets we analyzed included 1,500-sentence samples from the spoken, the non-fiction, and the fiction portions of the ANC. This paper provides the details of the tagset we de...

OBJECTIVES Acquiring temporal information is important because knowledge in clinical narratives is time-sensitive. In this paper, we describe an approach that can be used to extract the temporal information found in Korean clinical narrative texts. METHODS We developed a two-stage system, which employs an exhaustive text analysis phase and a temporal expression recognition phase. Since our ta...

This study evaluates the extent to which the production of referring expressions such as noun phrases and pronouns to fulfill various discourse functions in narratives of Chinese–English bilingual children matches that of their monolingual peers in each of the two languages. Spoken narratives in English and Chinese were elicited from 30 9-year-old participants from each of the three groups: Chi...

This study qualitatively describes euphemistic expressions in English and Kurdish to analyze the most common types of euphemism related body excrement, death sickness, sexual topics, religion, other relevant subjects, identify similarities differences between this respect. In social contexts, humans need use a range appropriate convey their ideas thoughts properly; therefore, euphemisms are use...

This paper introduces a new experimental paradigm for studying children's real-time language processing of their parents' unscripted speech. Focusing on children's processing of referential expressions, or the phrases that parents used to label particular objects, we engaged dyads in a game in which parents labeled one of several objects displayed on a screen, and the child was to quickly ident...

l'objectif principal de ce travail  est l’étude de la longueur moyenne des phrases dans les textes journalistiques français comme sources, leurs traductions en persan comme cibles et vice-versa. l'hypothèse principale de cette recherche est basée sur l’une des tendances déformantesselonberman comme quoi « toute traduction est tendanciellement plus longue que l'original. » (1985, ...

This paper describes two sets of crowdsourcing experiments on temporal information annotation conducted on two languages, i.e., English and Italian. The first experiment, launched on the CrowdFlower platform, was aimed at classifying temporal relations given target entities. The second one, relying on the CrowdTruth metric, consisted in two subtasks: one devoted to the recognition of events and...

We describe the TempEval-2 task which is currently in preparation for the SemEval-2010 evaluation exercise. This task involves identifying the temporal relations between events and temporal expressions in text. Six distinct subtasks are defined, ranging from identifying temporal and event expressions, to anchoring events to temporal expressions, and ordering events relative to each other.