Noun phrase conjunction in Akan (Niger-Congo, Kwa) is performed by placing a connective between two noun phrases, but there some variation the forms used major dialects. In Twi dialects ne , Fante speakers may use nye or na depending on whether comitative coordinative interpretation intended. This paper focuses historical origins of n(y)e Akan. It suggests that patterns with other sub-saharan A...

The performance of machine learning algorithms can be improved by combining the output of different systems. In this paper we apply this idea to the recognition of noun phrases. We generate different classifiers by using different representations of the data. By combining the results with voting techniques described in (Van Halteren et al., 1998) we manage to improve the best reported performan...

abstract Aims This study investigated three- to five-year-olds’ ability generalise knowledge of case inflection novel nouns in Estonian, which has complex morphology and lacks a default declension pattern. We explored whether Estonian-speaking children use similar strategies adults, they preferred pattern or analogy phonological neighbours. Method taught nominative allative elicited partitive g...

Noun incorporation in Frisian (Dyk 1997) is unusual because it shows certain restrictions that are not seen in other languages with noun incorporation, such as Mohawk and Chukchi. In addition, while others argue that noun incorporation is indeed possible in Germanic (see Booij 2009 for Dutch, Barrie and Spreng 2009 for German), Frisian is unusual even with respect to Germanic in allowing noun i...

the significance of error analysis for the learner, the teacher and the researcher is now widely recognized. earlier studies of error analysis concentrated on intersystematic comparison of the “native language” and the “target language” and drew the required data largely from intuitions and impressionistic observations. this study was conducted on the basis of the following observations: (1) to...

The Guardian editorial headline is viewed as a two-component structure punctuated with colons in which the first part names topic and second one provides its comment. article examines frequency diversity of eight noun phrase patterns gives structural functional analysis their constituents. author studies how categorial features nouns, adjectives, prepositions manifest themselves on level. Three...

This paper proposes a corpus-based language model for topic identification. We analyze the association of noun-noun and noun-verb pairs in LOB Corpus. The word association norms are based on three factors: 1) word importance, 2) pair co-occurrence, and 3) distance. They are trained on the paragraph and sentence levels for noun-noun and nounverb pairs, respectively. Under the topic coherence pos...

The verb in the fist clause of each of the examples above assigns accusative case (ACC) to the raised noun phrase. The verb in the second clause assigns nominative case (NOM) to the raised noun phrase. When the RNRed noun is not syncretic for the two cases assigned (ACC and NOM), as in (1), the construction is ungrammatical. On the other hand, when the raised noun is syncretic for NOM and ACC, ...

Automated biomedical concept recognition is important for biomedical document retrieval and text mining research. In this paper, we describe a two-step concept extraction technique for documents in biomedical domain. Step one includes noun phrase extraction, which can automatically extract noun phrases from medical documents. Extracted noun phrases are used as concept term candidates which beco...