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Is the basis of exoticism subjective or objective?
As exotic, we usually apprehend something extraordinary, rare, unfamiliar — all of them features that challenge our cognitive instincts. Obviously, exoticism does not exist objectively and can only be defined in ...
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On the nature, annotation and use of shallow parsing structures
Shallow parsing has come into use during the preceding decade under various names and for various tasks. The different approaches vary in some respects but also share many features. This article is intended to...
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Map** structures onto tags
Named Entity Recognition (NEE) and baseNP chunking are two examples of NLP tasks that annotate chunks, i.e. non-embedding, non-overlap** token sequences. Many approaches to these tasks can be greatly simplified...
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There is no end to it
The linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is one of the main areas of computational linguistics. Much energy has been devoted to building large syntactically annotated corpora, which are also called t...
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Requesting strategies in native vs. non-native English
This paper is concerned with a contrastive, cross-language analysis of one particular type of ‘face-threatening act’ (Brown and Levinson 1987), viz. requests; we will investigate the politeness strategies whic...
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The Ubiquity of Metaphor and Metonymy: The metaphor/metonymy balance redressed
In1 1985 Wolf Paprotté and I published our collective volume The Ubiquity of Metaphor: Metaphor in Language and Thought, which was largely based on papers presented during a highly successful 3-day Lakoff seminar...
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Computational Meta-languages: Theory and Applications
This paper is about levels of language, arid about switching, or better reflecting, between levels. Different levels of language are well suited to express different levels of abstraction, and thus of theories...
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Identifying Content and Function Words in Non-Annotated Corpora
In every corpus of natural language texts there are some tendencies which occur due to common properties of language, as for example, the principle of least effort. One of those phenomema is a typical distribu...