the arabic grammarians call the “main preposition + genitive noun” and an “adverb” a “prepositional phrase”. for prepositional phrases to assimilate into the sentence structure and fulfill their roles, they should have a specific connection and link to another part of the sentence. this link is called “attachment” and that part is named “attached phrase”. consequently, a prepositional phrase ca...

・ This leads to the problem of structured matching of regions and phrases: (1) individual regions agree with their corresponding phrases. (2) visual relations among regions agree with textual relations among corresponding phrases. ・ For the task of phrase localization, we propose a structured matching of phrases and regions that encourages the semantic relations between phrases to agree with th...

The appropriate enforcement phrases used during occupational health and safety (OHS) inspection activities is a crucial factor to guarantee the compliance with OHS regulations in enterprises. However, few researchers have empirically investigated the issue of how enforcement phrases are processed. The present study explored the neural features of processing two types of enforcement phrases (sev...

We present a hierarchical statistical machine translation system which supports discontinuous constituents. It is based on synchronous linear context-free rewriting systems (SLCFRS), an extension to synchronous context-free grammars in which synchronized non-terminals span k ≥ 1 continuous blocks on either side of the bitext. This extension beyond contextfreeness is motivated by certain complex...

In this paper, I give a semantic account of the grammaticality of the negative particle not with noun phrases in English. On the way to developing my solution, I explore a few previous attempts at this problem, including an extension of Horn’s discussion of the availability of NEG-Q readings (Horn, 1989) and Barwise and Cooper’s treatment of this phenomenon within the generalized quantifiers ap...

This paper presents a method for word alignment that uses parallel phrases from manually word aligned sentence pairs to align words in new texts. Experiments on an English–Swedish parallel corpus showed that the heuristic phrase-based method produced word alignments with high precision. Furthermore, alignment recall was improved by generalizing phrases with part-of-speech categories. We also co...

In this article, we present a translation system which builds translations by gluing together Tree-Phrases, i.e. associations between simple syntactic dependency treelets in a source language and their corresponding phrases in a target language. The Tree-Phrases we use in this study are syntactically informed and present the advantage of gathering source and target material whose words do not h...

We present a method for constructing, maintaining and consulting a database of proper nouns. We describe noun phrases composed of a proper noun and/or a description of a human occupation. They are formalized by finite state transducers (FST) and large coverage dictionaries and are applied to a corpus of newspapers. We take into account synonymy and hyperonymy. This first stage of our parsing pr...