A verb particle construction (VPC) classification scheme gleaned from linguistic sources has been used to assess its usefulness for identifying issues in decomposability. Linguistic sources have also been used to inform the features suitable for use in building an automatic classifier for the scheme with a series of good performance results. The notions of how to define the task of computing ph...

This paper describes a dataset which provides the platform for a task on the extraction of English verb particle constructions with basic valence information.

This study deals with the verb-particle combination in novel Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. The objectives of this research are to find out and identify most dominant particle used verb Code. source data is from written technique descriptive qualitative. It found that there 135 combinations 1(0.74%) along, 3(2.22%) around/About, 5(3.70%) away, back, 21(15.5%) down, 10(7.40%) in, 14(10.37%) off, 11...

In this paper, we investigate difficulties in translating verb-particle constructions from German to English. We analyse the structure of German VPCs and compare them to VPCs in English. In order to find out if and to what degree the presence of VPCs causes problems for statistical machine translation systems, we collected a set of 59 verb pairs, each consisting of a German VPC and a synonymous...

Motion Predicates and the Compounding Parameter: A New Approach William Snyder University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories University of Maryland,15 April 2005 1. Background 1.1 Talmy’s Verb-framed/Satellite-framed Typology (1) Talmy (1985, 1991, 2000) distinguishes between “satellite-framed” (Englishtype) languages and “verb-framed” (Spanish-type) languages. (2) In English, path is norm...

A focused constituent contains the most prominent stress of the clause (Selkirk 1984, Reinhart 1995). Reinhart accounts for this by a PF/LF mapping rule. I extend this view to Hungarian, a language with contrastive focus movement, and show that a range of data, some of which pose a problem for a featuredriven approach, can be accounted for straightforwardly. Among these are the uniqueness of fo...

This paper describes the techniques used for our system participating in the Document Understanding Conference 2006. We describe a new system, built from scratch, that focuses primarily on collecting models of possible answers for each question from the Internet, and applying those models to select the answer sentences from the documents in the collection. The system performed averagely in the ...

Motivations for final position and for enclitic position: On the placing of the inflected verb in historical Basque Modern Basque (and historical Basque as a whole; generalized attestations start in the 16 century) is a XXIV-type language in Greenberg’s (1966) classification; that is, a non-rigid SOV language with Gen-N order and postpositions, but with N-Adj order. In the present work, I exami...

This research is entitled “The Construction of English Verb “SEND”: A Cognitive Linguistic Study”. It based on cognitive linguistic, because with linguistic it could be seen how exactly the construction verb “send” and have that construction. The aims are; 1) to analyze “SEND” as a single verb; 2) "SEND" phrasal verb. data will collected by using observation method noting technique. Then, analy...

We propose a method for automatically identifying individual instances of English verb-particle constructions (VPCs) in raw text. Our method employs the RASP parser and analysis of the sentential context of each VPC candidate to differentiate VPCs from simple combinations of a verb and prepositional phrase. We show that our proposed method has an F-score of 0.974 at VPC identification over the ...