Translation, whose first traces date back at least to 3000 BC (Newmark, 1988), has always been considered time-consuming and labor-consuming. In view of this, experts have made numerous efforts to develop some mechanical systems which can reduce part of this time and labor. The advancement of computers in the second half of the twentieth century paved the ground for the invention of machine tra...

This paper is an attempt to demonstrate the syntactic behavior of -ly adverbs and adjectives. It mainly deals with as inflectional suffix that forms adjectives hypothesized there are differences between adjective-forming –ly adverb-forming –ly.The researcher first made general specific observations about morphological processes Since study focuses on a linguistic phenomenon, its data set used e...

This work belongs to a family of research efforts, called microtheories and aimed at describing the static meaning of all lexical categories in several languages in the framework of the MikroKosmos project on computational semantics. The latter also involves other static microtheories describing world knowledge and syntax-semantics mapping as well as dynamic microtheories connected with the act...

In this study we introduce AdjScales, a method for scaling similar adjectives by their strength. It combines existing Web-based computational linguistic techniques in order to automatically differentiate between similar adjectives that describe the same property by strength. Though this kind of information is rarely present in most of the lexical resources and dictionaries, it may be useful for...

This paper describes a bootstrapping algorithm for acquiring a lexicon of subjective adjectives which minimizes the recourse to external resources (such as lexical databases, parsers, manual annotation work). The method only employs a corpus tagged with part-ofspeech information and a seed set of subjective adjectives. The list of candidate subjective adjectives is generated incrementally by lo...

In this thesis, I investigate how lexical resources based on the organisation of lexical knowledge in classes which share common (syntactic, semantic, etc.) features support natural language processing and in particular symbolic recognition of textual entailment. First, I present a robust and wide coverage approach to lexico-structural verb paraphrase recognition based on Levin’s (1993) classif...

This is a paper about premodification in the English noun phrase, focusing on functions of attributive adjectives. Modification in general is an issue that has received comparatively little attention in linguistic research, at least outside the field of syntax (see eg Frawley 1992: 437); Although there are some systematic descriptions of premodifier functions to be found in the literature, much...