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Head (linguistics)

About: Head (linguistics) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2540 publications have been published within this topic receiving 29023 citations. The topic is also known as: nucleus.


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TL;DR: The adjective, the numeral, the demonstrative determiner and the quantifier are analysed as the modifiers of the simple noun phrase in Dagbani.
Abstract: This article discusses the structure of the Dagbani simple noun phrase. It is shown that, structurally, the Dagbani simple noun phrase is made up of the obligatory head noun and several optional elements. These optional elements generally follow the head noun of the simple noun phrase and so are labelled as post head modifiers. The adjective, the numeral, the demonstrative determiner and the quantifier are analysed as the modifiers of the simple noun phrase in Dagbani. These modifiers give certain grammatical or semantic information about the noun they modify. Though the Dagbani noun phrase may take several post modifiers, these modifiers are strictly ordered since each modifier has a prescribed syntactic slot.

8 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
13 Oct 2009
TL;DR: A Vietnamese Noun Phrase chunking approach based on Conditional random fields (CRFs) models and a method to build Vietnamese corpus from a set of hand annotated sentences is described.
Abstract: Noun phrase chunking is an important and useful task in many natural language processing applications. It is studied well for English, however with Vietnamese it is still an open problem. This paper presents a Vietnamese Noun Phrase chunking approach based on Conditional random fields (CRFs) models. We also describe a method to build Vietnamese corpus from a set of hand annotated sentences. For evaluation, we perform several experiments using different feature settings. Outcome results on our corpus show a high performance with the average of recall and precision 82.72% and 82.62% respectively.

8 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
17 Apr 1992-Science

8 citations

01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: A lexical representation for idioms in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) is proposed, which can account for the syntactic variability found in idiomatic constructions, and for the non-compositional semantics of idioms.
Abstract: This paper is concerned with the lexical representation of idioms. We distinguish idioms from other kinds of multiple -word expressions like collocations, support-verb constructions, and lexicalized metaphors. A lexical representation for idioms in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) is proposed, which can account for the syntactic variability found in idiomatic constructions, and for the non-compositional semantics of idioms. Since all idioms, which are not completely fixed, consist of a lexical head and "frozen" complements, the information about an idiomatic expression can be encoded in the subcategorization list of the idiom’s lexical head. Since idioms involve selection for particular lexemes, a feature is added to HPSG signs to encode this lexemic information. It will be argued that the Locality Principle of HPSG is too strong because it prohibits the representation of idioms proposed in this paper, and that the Semantics Principle must be modified. We explain the fact that some idioms do not passivize by the fact that no thematic role is assigned to accusative objects like the bucket in kick the bucket.

8 citations


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