The present study investigates the prosodic realization of split noun sentences in Chinese, like ‘shu, wo mai le san ben. (Book, I buy ASP three CLAS. ‘I bought three books.’). The question and answer paradigm was used to induce sentences where the noun was either the topic or the focus. In the topic context, the question was of the form, ‘I heard you bought books and pencils. Is that true?’ In...

This paper responds to the claim of Veale, O’Donoghue and Keane (1995) that SME (Falkenhainer, Forbus & Gentner, 1989; Forbus, Ferguson & Gentner, 1994) performs poorly on noun-noun comparisons, such as A surgeon is like a butcher. Veale et al. argue that such noun-noun comparisons involve “object-centered representations” that do not contain higher-order relations, and that Sapper’s chaining o...

Coreference resolution involves nding antecedents for anaphoric discourse entities, such as deenite noun phrases. But many deenite noun phrases are not anaphoric because their meaning can be understood from general world knowledge (e.g., \the White House" or \the news media"). We have developed a corpus-based algorithm for automatically identifying deenite noun phrases that are non-anaphoric, w...

Embedded noun phrase structures are frequently used in the Japanese language because embedded sentences make modified noun phrases more expressive. In embedded noun phrase structures, a noun phrase modified by an embedded sentence is usually created by extraposing the case, such as the subjective case, of the sentence. In contrast, there is another type of embedded noun phrase structure. In thi...