Dynamics of nominal classification systems in language processing

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Shiao-hui Chan
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Nominal Classification

scholarly journals System of classification for personnel selection based upon Ukrainian language analyze

2020 ◽  
pp. 034-040
Author(s):  
O.P. Zhezherun ◽  
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M.S. Ryepkin ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Classification System ◽  
Personnel Selection ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
System Expansion ◽  
Recruitment Process

The article describes a classification system with natural language processing. Many systems use neural networks, but it needs massive amounts of data for training, which is not always available. Authors propose to use ontologies in such systems. As example of such approach it is shown the classification system, which helps to form a list of the best candidates during the recruitment process. An overview of the methods for ontologies constructing and language analyzers appropriate for classification systems are presented. The system in the form of a knowledge base is constracted. Described system supports Ukrainian and English languages. The possible ways of system expansion is regarded.

Canonical gender

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 495-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
GREVILLE G. CORBETT ◽  
SEBASTIAN FEDDEN
Keyword(s):  
Classification Systems ◽  
Single Type ◽  
Entire System ◽  
Single Gender ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
The World ◽  
Canonical Ideal ◽  
Typological Approach ◽  
Nominal Classification ◽  
Gender System

Nominal classification remains a fascinating topic but in order to make further progress we need greater clarity of definition and analysis. Taking a Canonical Typology approach, we use canonical gender as an ideal against which we can measure the actual gender systems we find in the languages of the world. Building on previous work on canonical morphosyntactic features, particularly on how they intersect with canonical parts of speech, we establish the distinctiveness of gender, reflected in the Canonical Gender Principle: In a canonical gender system, each noun has a single gender value. We develop three criteria associated with this principle, which together ensure that canonically a noun has exactly one gender value; we give examples of non-canonicity for each criterion, thus gradually building the typology. This is the essential groundwork for a comprehensive typology of nominal classification: the Canonical Typological approach allows us to tease apart clusterings of properties and to characterize individual properties with respect to a canonical ideal, rather than requiring us to treat the entire system as belonging to a single type. This approach is designed to facilitate comparisons of different noun classification systems across languages.

scholarly journals Single versus concurrent systems: Nominal classification in Mian

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Greville G. Corbett ◽  
Sebastian Fedden ◽  
Raphael Finkel
Keyword(s):  
Concurrent Systems ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Single System ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
Canonical Approach ◽  
Precise Measure ◽  
Semantic Compositionality ◽  
Nominal Classification ◽  
Single Versus

AbstractThe Papuan language Mian allows us to refine the typology of nominal classification. Mian has two candidate classification systems, differing completely in their formal realization but overlapping considerably in their semantics. To determine whether to analyse Mian as a single system or concurrent systems we adopt a canonical approach. Our criteria – orthogonality of the systems (we give a precise measure), semantic compositionality, morphosyntactic alignment, distribution across parts of speech, exponence, and interaction with other features – point mainly to an analysis as concurrent systems. We thus improve our analysis of Mian and make progress with the typology of nominal classification.

scholarly journals Beyond the classifier/gender dichotomy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Singer
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Gender Agreement ◽  
Nominal Classification ◽  
Constructing Meaning ◽  
The Way

The entrenched nature of the gender/classifier dichotomy stands in the way of better typologies of nominal classification. How can we move beyond it to a more integrated view of nominal classification? Looking at a range of kinds of data from the Australian language Mawng, it is clear that our understanding of many less well-known nominal classification systems reflects a lack of data on how the system is used. Mawng has what seems like a well-behaved system of five genders, including gender agreement in the verb. However, the genders, like classifiers, play a crucial role in constructing meaning in discourse, often in the absence of nouns. Nominal classification systems must be contextualized in terms of their roles in constructing meaning in discourse, in order to do them justice in typologies. Greater emphasis on the flexibility of nominal classification systems and less on the role of nouns will also move efforts forward.

scholarly journals Flexible Concepts

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Pecher ◽  
Rolf Antonius Zwaan
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Conceptual System ◽  
Nominal Classification ◽  
Insight Into

This is a commentary on Kemmerer (2016), Categories of object concepts across languages and brains: The relevance of nominal classification systems to Cognitive Neuroscience. The consequences of nominal classification systems for the organization of the conceptual system are consistent with several theories and findings in cognitive psychology. Concepts are flexible; they are categorized in various ways and change across contexts. Languages with nominal classification systems provide an interesting source of data that can give further insight into the mechanisms of flexible concepts.

scholarly journals Extreme classification

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 633-675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Fedden ◽  
Greville G. Corbett
Keyword(s):  
Classification Systems ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Lexical Structure ◽  
Category Assignment ◽  
Great Progress ◽  
Nominal Classification ◽  
And Linguistics

AbstractCategorization retains its key importance in research on human cognition. It is an intellectual area where all disciplines devoted to human cognition – psychology, philosophy, anthropology, and linguistics – intersect. In language, categorization is not only a central part of lexical structure but is also salient in systems of nominal classification, notably gender and classifiers. Recent years have seen great progress in the description and analysis of nominal classification systems, so that we are now in a position to offer an account of such systems which brings cognition and typology together, providing the essential parameters for the calibration of experiments for investigating cognition. To this end, we establish the extremes of nominal classification systems, from the surprisingly simple to the surprisingly complex. We analyse the two essential components of nominal classification systems: (i) assignment, i.e. the principles (semantic or formal) which govern category assignment and (ii) exponence, i.e. the morphological means by which systems of nominal classification are expressed. We discuss extreme configurations of assignment and exponence in individual languages and extreme multiple pairings of assignment and exponence in languages with two or even more concurrent classification systems.

scholarly journals More diversity enGENDERed by African languages: an introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-240
Author(s):  
Tom Güldemann ◽  
Ines Fiedler
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
African Languages ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Noun Class ◽  
Nominal Classification ◽  
Systemic Diversity ◽  
Ongoing Project

Abstract We give an overview of current research questions pursued in connection with an ongoing project on nominal classification systems in Africa, with a particular focus on Niger-Congo. We first introduce our cross-linguistically applicable methodological approach which provides new insights into the design of a range of gender systems on the continent. We then apply these ideas to the “noun class” systems of Niger-Congo. We focus on non-canonical phenomena of poorly known languages, which attest to an unexpected systemic diversity beyond the well-known Bantu type and promise to change the synchronic and diachronic perspective on the gender systems of this family.

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