Natural Language Generation (NLG) techniques can be applied in generating virtual documents dynamically using information from a database (Dale et al, 1999). One of the applications of NLG techniques to generate documents dynamically is the web-based interactive virtual museum, VIGAN. NLG is used to generate the descriptions of the objects in a virtual museum dynamically based on the profile an...

This paper investigates the distinctions of verbs stealing among Arabic-English translators. First, four selected for this study were ‘shoplift’, ‘rob’, ‘burglarize’, and ‘heist’. Second, visual stimuli developed along with their dimensions distinctions. Six participants presented these asked to describe them in Arabic English, respective definitions. Semantic analysis English naming pattern re...

Word-finding difficulty (anomia) is the most common linguistic deficit in dementia. It is often measured by picture naming tasks as naming a picture taps all the major processes in word production, i.e., activation of a concept, retrieval of lexical-semantic information on that concept, retrieval of the corresponding word form and articulation. Naming and naming errors have extensively been sim...

1.1 Introduction This paper proposes the lexicalization of context in HPSG. Instead of phrasal amalgamation of contextual information from a phrase's daughters , which is speciied by the Principle of Contextual Consistency of Pollard and Sag 1994, we propose lexical amalgamation of context from a word's arguments by means of lexical constraints. The Principle of Contextual Consistency is replac...

This paper confirms that the English verb system (similar to the Finnish, Dutch, and Bulgarian verb systems [17, 22]) represents path curvature at three different grain levels: neutral path curvature, global path curvature, and local path curvature. We show that the three-grain-level hypothesis makes it possible to formulate constraints on English sentence structure and makes it possible to def...

We present an ILP model of concept-totext generation. Unlike pipeline architectures, our model jointly considers the choices in content selection, lexicalization, and aggregation to avoid greedy decisions and produce more compact texts.

Elicited production data from English, French and Japanese children reveal that predicates of ‘traversal’ (e.g. across, through) present a particular lexicalization difficulty in the early stages of acquisition, regardless of expression in verbs or adpositions. Adult-like lexicalization patterns are consistently produced only by 6 or 7 years old. In all three languages, children circumvent the ...

In this squib we explore a strictly derivational explanation for the differences in possible middle voice constructions in Norwegian and Swedish. Whereas Norwegian allows by its lexical s-passive construction as well as a complex adjectival construction to stand in for middle semantics, only the latter option is available in Swedish. We argue that this contrast lies in the lexicalization of for...

Williams syndrome is a genetic disorder that, it has been claimed, results in an unusual pattern of linguistic strengths and weaknesses. The current study investigated the hypothesis that there is a reduced influence of lexical knowledge on phonological short-term memory in Williams syndrome. Fourteen children with Williams syndrome and 2 vocabulary-matched control groups, 20 typically developi...