Sentence manipulation: semantics, syntax and prosody
The Syntax Semantics Prosody Interface in Legislative Language
... the syntax-prosody interface and the information ...that syntax is responsible for base meaning and while prosody highlights a part or parts of that ...
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A Deep Decomposable Model for Disentangling Syntax and Semantics in Sentence Representation
... {lidingcheng,hongliangfei,shaogangren,liping11}@baidu.com Abstract Recently, disentanglement based on a gener- ative adversarial network or a variational au- toencoder has significantly advanced the per- formance of ...
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A Multi Task Approach for Disentangling Syntax and Semantics in Sentence Representations
... as sentence length increases (leaving fewer can- didate nearest neighbors for ...as sentence length ...the sentence length increases be- yond 12 or so, which suggests that a bag-of-words decoder may ...
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THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE
... the syntax, we assume that sentences have a hierarchical constituent structure that groups words and subconstituents into ...a sentence is captured by the kind of phrase structure tree illustrated in ...
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Syntax and Semantics for Business Rules
... Proposition 2. The implication problem for business rules is undecidable. Proof. The translation of business rules into first-order logic includes all formulas in the prenex class which is undecidable [8]. We next ...
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On the Semantics and Syntax of Persian ‘become’
... NEGIN ILKHANIPOUR AND AYAKA SUGAWARA 156 light verb zædæn ‘to hit’ establishes the causal relation and hence the sentence is compatible with the adverb ʔæmdæn ‘intentionally’. Note that the Non-Active Voice head ...
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ADVERBS AND THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERPLAY
... above, syntax and semantics are quite autonomous. Syntax provides the configurations (adjunction) for placing adverbs, while semantics evaluates/interprets the structures generated by ...for ...
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Learning the Semantics of Manipulation Action
... to semantics of manipulation ac- tion and has applications to both observ- ing and understanding human manipula- tion actions as well as executing them with a robotic mechanism ...both syntax and se- ...
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Prosody, syntax, and pragmatics: insubordination in spoken Brazilian Portuguese
... In (14) a conditional sentence is performed through two separate utterances, the protasis through the first one and the apodosis through the second. From the textual, semantic, and even morpho-syntactic ...
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Functional trade-off of prosody and syntax in question marking?
... Other sentence types exist as well, such as exclamatives and negations, but these will not be part of the present ...these sentence types should be redundantly signalled by prosodic ...the sentence ...
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Machine Comprehension with Syntax, Frames, and Semantics
... passage sentence containing the answer will overlap with the question and correct answer in terms of predicates, frames evoked, and predicted argument labels, and we design features to capture this ...a ...
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Cooperative Learning of Disjoint Syntax and Semantics
... X (x,t,y)∈D `(f θ (x, t), y), (1) where ` is a logistic regression function. These models need an externally provided parsing tree for each input sentence during both training and evaluation. Alternatives, such as ...
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Syntax to Semantics Transformation: Application to Treebanking
... between syntax and semantics is one of the most promising research topics in cor- pus ...comparing syntax and semantics in written and spoken annotated ...
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Graphical Annotation for Syntax Semantics Mapping
... ‘wants.’ Figure 14: Wide-Scope Reading of ‘a doctor’ Figure 15: Narrow-Scope Reading of ‘a doctor’ The cp and subst links address ellipses, which is a reformulation of part of the Penn TreeBank (PTB) annotation scheme. ...
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Syntax-semantics mapping of locative arguments
... prepositions/markers, but not source or symmetric path markers. Let us just consider a little fragment of Chinese data, which expose subtle syntactic differences among the semantic types of locatives. First of all, as ...
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The Galois Connection between Syntax and Semantics
... So the claim is that we can make a Galois connection between sets of sentences and classes of structures. To take a familiar type of example. Suppose L is a classical first- order language. L will have its distinctive ...
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Towards a flexible syntax/semantics interface
... – concerning the capacity of dealing with partial results, in the case of Edite, if a sentence was not syntactically or semantically covered by the gram- mar, no answer was given. In our interface, SuSAna performs ...
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The interface of syntax with pragmatics and prosody in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
... a sentence that started with a focused direct object noun phrase, bearing a special focus intonation which is incompatible with a clitic (Cinque 1997; Rizzi ...
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A Statistical Semantic Parser that Integrates Syntax and Semantics
... Figure 3: MR’s constructed for each SAPT Node. construction of the MR for the SAPT in Figure 1. Nodes are numbered in the order in which the con- struction of their MR’s are completed. The first step, G ET S EMANTIC H ...
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Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Sentence Processing, Syntax/Semantics interface, Multilingualism.
... 7 th Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL) Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.. Scope-Parallelism in Hindi-Urdu Sluicing.[r] ...
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