This paper seeks to establish that measure phrases in the extended AP and PP—such as six feet tall and twenty minutes before midnight—have a direct counterpart in the verbal domain. These verbal measure phrases, exemplified in English in e.g. He slept several hours, constitute a natural class distinct from other DP adverbials and characterized by obligatorily narrow scope, low structural positi...

In his recent article Deutscher (2009: 199) suggests that “nominalization is an unsung hero in the story of subordination”. He goes on to say that “[t]he ability to derive a noun from a verb, that is, to reify a verbal predicate and present it as a nominal argument or modifier, is the core of subordination”. While Deutscher (2009) believes that the relevant nominalization for his study is “deri...

Many text mining applications in the biomedical domain benefit from automatic clustering of relational phrases into synonymous groups, since it alleviates the problem of spurious mismatches caused by the diversity of natural language expressions. Most of the previous work that has addressed this task of synonymy resolution uses similarity metrics between relational phrases based on textual stri...

The requirements for a more perfect retrieval are described from the user's viewpoint: thematic search, queries in the form of natural language phrases, basic interpretation of word meanings etc. A word model for such a system supports three different types of objects: words, readings and concepts. Concepts are expressions of a concept language. A software system called Concepto supports the ac...

In this paper we describe experiments with automated detection of metaphors in the Polish language. We focus our analysis on noun phrases composed of an adjective and a noun, and distinguish three types of expressions: with literal sense, with metaphorical sense, and expressions both literal and methaphorical (context-dependent). We propose a method of automatically recognizing expression type ...

Two phrases in Terence, lupus fabula and auribus teneo lupum present a difficult problem translation, especially considering that they are already linguistically complex forms their original language, translating not only presupposes carrying words over from one language to another, but implies multitude of factors. From translation studies perspective, drawing on pragmatic-functionalist cognit...

This paper presents a probabilistic model for resolution of non-pronominal anaphora in biomedical texts. The model seeks to find the antecedents of anaphoric expressions, both coreferent and associative ones, and also to identify discourse-new expressions. We consider only the noun phrases referring to biomedical entities. The model reaches state-of-the art performance: 5669% precision and 54-6...