In The proper treatment of quantification in ordimny Englim tk rQ) (Montague, 1973), Richard Montague presents the syntax and semantics of a fragment of English. His objective is to support the contention that “there is . . . no important theoretical difference between natural languages and the artificial languages of logicians” and that it is “possible to comprehend the syntax given in PTQ con...

This paper explains the automatic semantic interpretation of sentences. These sentences were selected for testing the verb predicates that we have been defining for WordNet 1.6 verb classes, and the algorithm that uses them. Semantic interpretation is performed for determining the meaning of the verb, or, verb predicate, its semantic roles, adjuncts, the attachment of postverbal prepositional p...

Acquisition of verb subcategorization frames is important as verbs generally take different types of relevant arguments associated with each phrase in a sentence in comparison to other parts of speech categories. This paper presents the acquisition of different subcategorization frames for a Bengali verb Kara (do). It generates compound verbs in Bengali when combined with various noun phrases. ...

This paper presents the design and algorithms of a morpho-semantic analyzer to parse the Japanese verb phrases of simple sentences. This parser aims to understand the whole semantics of verb phrases by parsing them into semantic units, and thus differs from existing morphological analyzers that primarily segment sentences into morpho-phonemes, labeled with the classifications. Unlike other stat...

According to Li & Thompson (1981), Chinese serial verb constructions consisting of two verb phrases denoting two separate events can be classified into those having alternating, consecutive, purpose or circumstance relations. These classifications may overlap and a serial verb construction may be ambiguous between different interpretations. It has been argued in a recent study (Chan 1996) that ...

There is a broad concensus among researchers working within the paradigm of HPSG that argument-inheritance (Hinrichs and Nakazawa (1989; 1994)) is an essential operation in the analysis of so-called verb clusters in German. An argument-inheritance verb subcategorizes for an unsaturated verbal complement, and for all the complements on the COMPS-list of this verbal complement. In German, auxilia...

This paper proposes a new error-driven HMMbased text chunk tagger with context-dependent lexicon. Compared with standard HMM-based tagger, this tagger uses a new Hidden Markov Modelling approach which incorporates more contextual information into a lexical entry. Moreover, an error-driven learning approach is adopted to decrease the memory requirement by keeping only positive lexical entries an...

one of the main dichotomies in syntactic analyses deals with the distinction between lexical and functional categories. functional categories gain in stature as the generative grammar moves ahead. they come into play in explaining the derivation stages of phrases and sentences. the present study critically evaluates different approaches to the role and function of one of these functional catego...