An empirical overview of the properties of English prepositional passives is presented, followed by a discussion of formal approaches to the analysis of the various types of prepositional passives in HPSG. While a lexical treatment is available, the significant number of technical and conceptual difficulties encountered point to an alternative approach relying on constructional constraints. The...

Machine translation is the process by which computer software is used to translate a text from one natural language into another language with or without minimal human intervention. This definition involves accounting for the grammatical structure of each language and using rules and grammars to transfer the grammatical structure of the source language into the target language. This paper prese...

This paper presents a method for word sense disambiguation and coherence understanding of prepositional relations. The method relies on information provided by WordNet 1.5. We rst classify preposi-tional attachments according to semantic equivalence of phrase heads and then apply inferential heuristics for understanding the validity of prepositional structures. 1 Problem description In this pap...

In this thesis we use a knowledge-based approach to disambiguating prepositional phrase attachments in English sentences. This method was first introduced by S. M. Harabagiu. The Penn Treebank corpus is used as the training text. We extract 4-tuples of the form [ V P , NP1, Prep, NP2 ] and sort them into classes according to the semantic relationships between parts of each tuple. These relation...

The period of Sangam literature was preceded by the Natrinai period, first literary work compiled. It is a book that combines richness with grammatical richness. parables in narrative add beauty to songs abundance and detail. This thesis intended explain how parable, which composed numbers details, makes sense poems. tendency compare one thing another natural characteristic all human beings. op...