In this paper we report on the analyses of alternative approaches to semantic role annotation (FrameNet (FrameNet, 2005), PropBank (Palmer et al., 2005) and VerbNet (Kipper, 2006)...
To study PP attachment disambiguation as a benchmark for empirical methods in natural language processing it has often been reduced to a binary decision problem (between verb or n...
We propose a formal characterization of variation in the syntactic realization of semantic arguments, using hierarchies of syntactic relations and thematic roles, and a mechanism ...
Inner classes in object-oriented languages play a role similar to nested function definitions in functional languages, allowing an object to export other objects with direct acces...
Object composition is often advocated as a more flexible alternative to standard class inheritance since it takes place at run-time, thus permitting to specialize the behavior of ...