Word processors or computers used in Japan employ Japanese input method through keyboard stroke combined with Kana (phonetic) character to Kanji (ideographic, Chinese) character conversion technology. The key factor of Kana-to-Kanji conversion technology is how to raise the accuracy of the conversion through the homophone processing, since we have so many homophonic Kanjis. In this paper, we re...

This paper describes ICL’s participation at NTCIR-9 RITE. We chose BC & MC subtask. Textual entailment is a problem to predict whether an entailment holds for a given test-hypothesis pair. We built an inference model to solve this problem by means of using dependency syntax analysis (by LTP), lexical knowledge base (e.g. CCD), web information (e.g. Baidupedia) and probability method. We used AU...

Recent findings from large corpus studies of spontaneous English speech show that the predictability of a word is negatively correlated with the duration of its pronunciation. This predictability effect extends to word repetition in discourse, where words shorten as they are re-used, to word frequency, with shorter pronunciations for high frequency than low frequency words, and to homophones, w...

The present study asked whether accuracy feedback on a meaning generation task would lead to improved contextual word learning (CWL). Active generation can facilitate learning by increasing task engagement and memory retrieval, which strengthens new word representations. However, forced generation results in increased errors, which can be detrimental for learning if they are not corrected. The ...

Abstract Can a lack of grammatical knowledge alone be held accountable for the spelling errors that are made homophonous verb forms and do these occur because spellers not apply their knowledge? Three experiments with secondary school pupils were conducted on Dutch weak prefix verbs. The results confirmed many also have great problems identifying forms’ functions. Moreover, direct correlation w...

2 Abstract A series of experiments investigated whether naming latencies for homophones (e.g., /nΛn/) are a function of specific-word frequency (i.e., the frequency of nun) or a function of cumulative-homophone frequency (i.e., the sum of the frequencies of nun and none). Specific-word but not cumulative-homophone frequency affected picture-naming latencies. This result was obtained in two lang...

We report data from an experiment in which participants performed immediate serial recall of visually presented words with or without articulatory suppression, while also performing homophone or rhyme detection. The separation between homophonous or rhyming pairs in the list was varied. According to the working memory model (Baddeley, 1986; Baddeley & Hitch, 1974), suppression should prevent ar...

We present a method for generating English sentences from Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) graphs, exploiting a parallel corpus of AMRs and English sentences. We treat AMR-to-English generation as phrase-based machine translation (PBMT). We introduce a method that learns to linearize tokens of AMR graphs into an English-like order. Our linearization reduces the amount of distortion in PBMT...