This paper describes a theory of the representation and use of linguistic knowledge in a natural language understanding system. The representation system draws much of its insight from the linguistic theory of Fillmore el al. (1988). This models knowledge of language as a large collection of grammatical constructions, each a description of a linguistic regularity. I describe a representation la...

TACRED leverages the work done selecting query entities and annotating system responses in the TAC KBP evaluations. In each year of the TAC KBP evaluation (2009–2015), 100 query entities are given to participating KBP systems with the aim of filling in valid knowledge base entries for these entities. Our annotation effort re-uses these query entities, annotating each sentence in the source corp...

Linguistic knowledge plays a crucial role in natural language processing. Constructing large linguistic knowledge bases requires a lot of human effort and much cost. There have been many attempts to construct linguistic knowledge automatically, based on two primary strategies: knowledge extraction from annotated corpora and the augmentation of existing knowledge bases using annotated corpora. T...

background and aims: considering the fact that different components of linguistic knowledge are not equally vulnerable, this study investigated the knowledge of argument structure of verbs in a group of deaf persian speakers, as people who have been deprived of linguistic data during the early years of their childhood that is the critical period of language acquisition. methods: in this study, ...

â â â  â  abstract â â â  this study addressed the semantic vagueness in aljubby's book (sharih ghareeb alfath almudawana) in almaliki terms. it consists of introduction, preface, three sections, and conclusion. the preface stated the semantic obscurity in language and terminology with the definition of the book (almudawana) in maliki fiqh. the first section studied aljubby's method a...