The sense of a preposition is related to the semantics of its dominating prepositional phrase. Knowing the sense of a preposition could help to correctly classify the semantic role of the dominating prepositional phrase and vice versa. In this paper, we propose a joint probabilistic model for word sense disambiguation of prepositions and semantic role labeling of prepositional phrases. Our expe...

This paper presents a Natural Language Processing (NLP) approach to filter Named Entities (NE) from a list of collocation candidates. The NE are defined as the names of ’People’, ’Places’, ’Organizations’, ’Software’, ’Illnesses’, and so forth. The proposed method is based on statistical measures associated with Web resources to identify NE. Our method has three stages: (1) Building artificial ...

Prepositional Phrase is the key issue in structural ambiguity. Recently, researches in corpora provide the lexical cue of prepositions with other words and the information could be used to partly resolve ambiguity resulted from prepositional phrases. Two possible attachments are considered in the literature: either noun attachment or verb attachment. In this paper, we consider the problem from ...

A considerable number of studies have hitherto examined how native speakers and second language (hereafter L1 and L2, respectively) learners of English process English prepositional phrases. It is usually thought that both L1 and L2 speakers have a preference for verb phrase modification (e.g., The boy broke the old window with a ball of snow.) over noun phrase modification (e.g., The boy broke...

Background. In linguistics, it is customary to study individual language phenomena at one level of the system. Despite this rather artificial demarcation, obvious that units all structural levels actively interact with each other. This can often be traced, in particular, various transitional phenomena, which are adverbial equivalents word modern Ukrainian – semantically coherent, but differentl...

A fundamental problem in Natural Language Processing is the integration of syntactic and semantic constraints. In this paper we describe a new approach for the integration of syntactic and semantic constraints which takes advantage of a learned memory model. Our model combines localist representations for the integration of constraints and distributed representations for learning semantic const...

This paper presents a procedure to automaticafly learn German prepositional subcategofization frames fzom text corpora. It is based on shallow parsing techniques employed to identify high-accuracy cues for prepositional frames, the EM algorithm to solve the PP attachment problem implicit in the task, and a method to rank the evidence for subcategorization provided by the collected data.

This article describes a new theory of prepositional reasoning, that is, deductions depending on;/ or, and, and not. The theory proposes that reasoning is a semantic process based on mental models. It assumes that people are able to maintain models of only a limited number of alternative states of affairs, and they accordingly use models representing as much information as possible in an implic...