scholarly journals The Ka- Passive Form in Balinese

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 886
Author(s):  
Nyoman Sujaya ◽  
Ketut Artawa ◽  
I Nyoman Kardana ◽  
Made Sri Satyawati
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Semantic Representation ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Passive Voice ◽  
Base Form ◽  
The Voice

This paper accounts for the ka- passive form in Balinese. It focuses on its syntactic and semantic representation. Using the data taken from Balinese narrative texts issued in the Bali Orti of Bali Post newspaper, and applying the RRG theory by Van Valin and Randy (1999), it was found out that the ka- passive belongs to a morphological passive voice of Balinese where the the voice is marked on the verb (it is marked by prefix ka-). The ka- base form can be attached by applicative suffixes such as -ang, -in, and –an. These morphological verbs imply various syntactic structure and semantic representation.

Learning Pattern Relation-Based Hyperbolic Embedding for Adverse Drug Reaction Extraction

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-87
Author(s):  
Siriwon Taewijit ◽  
Thanaruk Theeramunkong
Keyword(s):  
Hierarchical Structure ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Semantic Representation ◽  
Cartesian Product ◽  
Natural Form ◽  
Relation Type ◽  
Vector Sum ◽  
Hyperbolic Embedding

Hyperbolic embedding has been recently developed to allow us to embed words in a Cartesian product of hyperbolic spaces, and its efficiency has been proved in several works of literature since the hierarchical structure is the natural form of texts. Such a hierarchical structure exhibits not only the syntactic structure but also semantic representation. This paper presents an approach to learn meaningful patterns by hyperbolic embedding and then extract adverse drug reactions from electronic medical records. In the experiments, the public source of data from MIMIC-III (Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care III) with over 58,000 observed hospital admissions of the brief hospital course section is used, and the result shows that the approach can construct a set of efficient word embeddings and also retrieve texts of the same relation type with the input. With the Poincaré embeddings model and its vector sum (PC-S), the authors obtain up to 82.3% in the precision at ten, 85.7% in the mean average precision, and 93.6% in the normalized discounted cumulative gain.

The indivisibility of words

1979 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Sampson
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Semantic Representation ◽  
Tree Structure ◽  
Breaking Point ◽  
Derivational Morphology ◽  
Adequate Description ◽  
Linguistic Representation ◽  
Level I

Many contemporary linguists hold that an adequate description of a natural language must represent many of its vocabulary items as syntactically and/or semantically complex. A sentence containing the word kill, for instance, will on this view be assigned a ‘deep syntactic structure’ or ‘semantic representation’ in which kill is represented by a portion or portions of tree-structure, the lowest nodes of which are labelled with ‘semantic primitives’ such as CAUSE and DIE, or CAUSE, BECOME, NOT and ALIVE. In the case of words such as cats or walked, which are formed in accordance with productive rules of ‘inflexional’ rather than ‘derivational’ morphology, there is little dispute that their composite status will be reflected at most or all levels of linguistic representation. (That is why I refer, above, to ‘vocabulary items’: cat and cats may be called different ‘words’, but not different elements of the English vocbulary.) When morphologically simple words such as kill are treated as composite at a ‘deeper’ level, I, for one, find my credulity strained to breaking point. (The case of words formed in accordance with productive or non-productive rules of derivational morphology, such as killer or kingly, is an intermediate one and I shall briefly return to it below.)

scholarly journals Linguistic processor integration for solving planimetric problems

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Semantic Representation ◽  
Interactive Visualization ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Language Description

The research deals with the original algorithms of the linguistic processor integration for solving planimetric problems. The linguistic processor translates the natural language description of the problem into a semantic representation based on the ontology that supports the axiomatics of geometry. The linguistic processor synthesizes natural-language comments to the solution and drawing objects. The method of interactive visualization of the linguistic processor functioning is proposed. The method provides a step-by-step dialog control of syntactic structure construction and its display in semantic representation. During the experiments, several dozens of standard syntactic structures correctly displayed in the semantic structures of the subject area were obtained. The direction of further research related to the development of the proposed approach is outlined.

scholarly journals Syntactic Structure Analysis on Deaf Student of Brawijaya University

PARADIGM ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-126
Author(s):  
Finda Muftihatun Najihah
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Narrative Writing ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
Deaf Students ◽  
Passive Voice ◽  
Transitive Verb ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Simple Sentences ◽  
Compound Sentence ◽  
Moderate Hearing Loss

This paper is aimed to investigate the syntactic structure of deaf students of Brawijaya Universirty. Syntactic structure which focuses on this discussion is the ability to recognize the sentence structure produced by deaf students. This study basically focuses on the language produced by deaf students of Brawijaya University in form of narrative writing. The narrative writing is written in Indonesian language. I chose Indonesian language as the language recourse, because the primary language of deaf students is Indonesian.This study uses descriptive qualitative research because this research basically aimed at describing the data in the form written text. The participant of this research is five deaf students who are classified into mild and moderate hearing loss. In term of analyzing the data, we concern on the three aspects of sentence structure. Those are: types of sentence, the presence of Subject and Verb in a sentence and the presence of Object for transitive verb.The finding indicates that the deaf students of Brawijaya University are able to write both simple sentences and compound sentence. They are also capable to write transitive verb which is followed by the object well. Yet, they are less in writing the passive voice form. Moreover, the data shows that different time durations of writing create a different number of words produced by them. Different deaf classification can provide different significance to a number of sentences produced by them.

The Voice of Cognition: Active and Passive Voice Influence Distance and Construal

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 547-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Y. Chan ◽  
Sam J. Maglio
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distance ◽  
Spatial Distance ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Passive Voice ◽  
Active Voice ◽  
Written Word ◽  
The Voice

English passages can be in either the active or passive voice. Relative to the active voice, the passive voice provides a sense of objectivity regarding the events being described. This leads to our hypothesis that passages in the passive voice can increase readers’ psychological distance from the content of the passage, triggering an abstract construal. In five studies with American, Australian, British, and Canadian participants, we find evidence for our propositions, with both paragraphs and sentences in the passive voice increasing readers’ felt temporal, hypothetical, and spatial distance from activities described in the text, which increases their abstraction in a manner that generalizes to unrelated tasks. As such, prose colors how people process information, with the active and passive voice influencing the reader in ways beyond what is stated in the written word.

scholarly journals Human Ratings of Writing Quality Capture Features of Syntactic Variety and Transformation in Chinese EFL Learners’ Argumentative Writing

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Xue ◽  
Liyan Zheng ◽  
Xiaoyi Tang ◽  
Banban Li ◽  
Esther Geva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Argumentative Writing ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Writing Quality ◽  
Passive Voice ◽  
Main Verb

Traditionally, writing quality is measured by human ratings, either holistically or analytically. The present study aimed to investigate the locus of human ratings by analyzing the linguistic features that are predictive of writing quality. One hundred and 44 argumentative writing samples from Chinese learners of English as a foreign language were evaluated by human ratings and quantitative measurement of writing quality indexed by Coh-Metrix. Holistic and analytic human ratings had significant correlations with quantitative measures related to syntactic variety and transformation. Moreover, linear and logistic regressions revealed that syntactic simplicity, words before main verb, syntactic structure similarity in all sentences and across paragraphs, incidence of passive voice and temporal connectives were five valid indices that can consistently differentiate writing quality indexed by human ratings. The present findings have significant pedagogical implications for human ratings on writing quality in the foreign language learning context.

scholarly journals Dependency Parsing with your Eyes: Dependency Structure Predicts Eye Regressions During Reading

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Lopopolo ◽  
Stefan L. Frank ◽  
Antal van den Bosch ◽  
Roel M. Willems
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Syntactic Analysis ◽  
Dependency Parsing ◽  
Text Difficulty ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Dependency Structure ◽  
Structural Reanalysis ◽  
Dependency Parser ◽  
Short Narrative

Backward saccades during reading have been hypothesized to be involved in structural reanalysis, or to be related to the level of text difficulty. We test the hypothesis that backward saccades are involved in online syntactic analysis. If this is the case we expect that saccades will coincide, at least partially, with the edges of the relations computed by a dependency parser. In order to test this, we analyzed a large eye-tracking dataset collected while 102 participants read three short narrative texts. Our results show a relation between backward saccades and the syntactic structure of sentences.

“Voice” in Narrative Texts: The Example of As I Lay Dying

PMLA ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 300-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Ross
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
As I Lay Dying ◽  
Printed Text ◽  
Verbal Meaning ◽  
The Voice

AbstractIn discussions of fiction, the implications of the term “voice” are seldom explored beyond its figurative uses. In As I Lay Dying, however, “voice” is central to our experience of narrative. The novel has two kinds of voice, mimetic and textual. Mimetic voice derives from represented speech, from the features of discourse by which readers identify speakers; but Faulkner’s novel dissimulates the origins of voices. The voices we hear turn out to belong to narrators and seem to originate in an author’s discourse. Textual voice arises from the printed text itself. Such features as italics, drawings, lists, and section headings generate signification independent of verbal meaning and establish an expressive context analogous to the paralinguistic context created by the voice in speech. As a result of the disruption of mimetic voices and of the presence of textual voice, language in As I Lay Dying transcends the conventional limitations of mimesis.

scholarly journals Pragmatic and Syntactic Features of Topics in American Sign Language

2002 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 502-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Janzen
Keyword(s):  
American Sign Language ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
American Sign ◽  
Grammatical Structure ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Syntactic Features

Abstract American Sign Language (ASL) sentences are understood as constructed around a topic-comment, rather than a subject-predicate, relation, but topic constituents are not well understood. This study examines topic-marked constituents in the context of discourse negotiation, suggesting that there are two sources for semantic material that is coded as topics in ASL. These are first, pragmatic contexts that are external to the discourse event, and second, the syntactic structure of the discourse itself. This study is based on two ASL narrative texts which were coded for topic and non-topic constituents and seeks to familiarized the interpreter with the grammatical structure of ASL. This way, the interpreter has a better grasp of the signer's perspective on the information coded both by topics and non-topics in the discourse.

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