Bilingual lexicon induction focuses on learning word translation pairs,also known as bitexts,from monolingual corpora by establishing a mapping between the source and target embedding spaces.Despite recent advancement...Bilingual lexicon induction focuses on learning word translation pairs,also known as bitexts,from monolingual corpora by establishing a mapping between the source and target embedding spaces.Despite recent advancements,bilingual lexicon induction is limited to inducing bitexts consisting of individual words,lacking the ability to handle semantics-rich phrases.To bridge this gap and support downstream cross-lingual tasks,it is practical to develop a method for bilingual phrase induction that extracts bilingual phrase pairs from monolingual corpora without relying on cross-lingual knowledge.In this paper,the authors propose a novel phrase embedding training method based on the skip-gram structure.Specifically,a local hard negative sampling strategy that utilises negative samples of central tokens in sliding windows to enhance phrase embedding learning is introduced.The proposed method achieves competitive or superior performance compared to baseline approaches,with exceptional results recorded for distant languages.Additionally,we develop a phrase representation learning method that leverages multilingual pre-trained language models.These mPLMs-based representations can be combined with the above-mentioned static phrase embeddings to further improve the accuracy of the bilingual phrase induction task.We manually construct a dataset of bilingual phrase pairs and integrate it with MUSE to facilitate the bilingual phrase induction task.展开更多
Idioms,collocations,and formulaic phrases are three factors playing the important role in the second language acquisition(SLA).This essay firstly deals with the definitions of these concepts,then it illustrates the im...Idioms,collocations,and formulaic phrases are three factors playing the important role in the second language acquisition(SLA).This essay firstly deals with the definitions of these concepts,then it illustrates the importance of them to SLA on two perspectives—idioms,collocations,and formulaic phrases respectively and they regarded as a whole.Therefore,in this way,the essay may lead to the answer the question“How are idioms,collocations,and formulaic phrases important to SLA?”展开更多
Translators frequently come across metaphors and similes, which are important ways of figure of speech. Figures of speech are actually vehicles of culture, and metaphorical phrases are the essence of human's cultu...Translators frequently come across metaphors and similes, which are important ways of figure of speech. Figures of speech are actually vehicles of culture, and metaphorical phrases are the essence of human's culture. So the strategies adopted in the translation of metaphors and similes are the reflection of the translators' attitude towards culture. This paper holds the belief that foreignization should be the main translation strategy when dealing with the metaphorical phrases bearing cultural connotations.展开更多
This paper will firstly introduce the categories and main characteristics of English lexical phrases.Then a discussion over the function of English lexical phrases will be carried out from the angle of second language...This paper will firstly introduce the categories and main characteristics of English lexical phrases.Then a discussion over the function of English lexical phrases will be carried out from the angle of second language acquisition.The author holds the view that lexical phrases play an important role in second language acquisition,which can be summarized as follows:firstly,the acceleration of language fluency;secondly,the improvement of lexical selection ability;thirdly,the enhancement of pragmatic awareness.展开更多
A majority of contracts will use many prepositions and prepositional phrases to reflect their preciseness which cause the treaty wording complicated and hard to understand. This paper tends to demonstrate the characte...A majority of contracts will use many prepositions and prepositional phrases to reflect their preciseness which cause the treaty wording complicated and hard to understand. This paper tends to demonstrate the characteristics of the prepositions and prepositional phrases used in business English contracts and explore the translation strategies used in translating the features of the prepositions and the prepositional phrases in business English contracts. The findings of this paper can provide a reference for the majority of the trade workers, which can help them accurately and effectively draft or translate a contract and avoid unnecessary disputes.展开更多
As is known to all, vocabulary acquisition plays an essential role in English learning. However, it was supposed very difficult to many Chinese learners. For the reason that so many kinds of approaches exists in the r...As is known to all, vocabulary acquisition plays an essential role in English learning. However, it was supposed very difficult to many Chinese learners. For the reason that so many kinds of approaches exists in the real life, English learners are always do not know which one is suitable and more effective. To solve this problem, the paper will analyze two approaches (point approach and phrase approach) for you.展开更多
A surge in post-publication activity related to editing,including by technical editors and copyeditors,is worthy of some discussion.One of these issues involves the issue of'tortured phrases',which are bizarre...A surge in post-publication activity related to editing,including by technical editors and copyeditors,is worthy of some discussion.One of these issues involves the issue of'tortured phrases',which are bizarre terms and phrases in academic papers that replace standard English expressions or jargon.This phenomenon may reveal an attempt to avoid the detection of textual similarity or to masquerade plagiarism,and yet remain undetected by editors,peer reviewers and text editors.Potentially thousands of cases have already been discovered and reported publicly on the post-publication platform PubPeer.In this opinion paper,35 cases from ranked scholarly journals are presented,mainly the fields of materials,computer and engineering sciences.This collation serves to expand discussion about this integrity-related phenomenon and to increase educational awareness of the topic.展开更多
Loose phrase extraction method is proposed and applied for phrase-based statistical ma- chine translation. The method extracts phrase pairs that are not strictly consistent with word align- ments. Two types of constra...Loose phrase extraction method is proposed and applied for phrase-based statistical ma- chine translation. The method extracts phrase pairs that are not strictly consistent with word align- ments. Two types of constraints on word positions are investigated for this method. Furthermore, n-best alignments are introduced for phrase extraction instead of the one-best. Experimental results show that the proposed approach outperforms the baseline system, Pharaoh system, for both one-best and n-best alignments.展开更多
Traditional topic models have been widely used for analyzing semantic topics from electronic documents.However,the obvious defects of topic words acquired by them are poor in readability and consistency.Only the domai...Traditional topic models have been widely used for analyzing semantic topics from electronic documents.However,the obvious defects of topic words acquired by them are poor in readability and consistency.Only the domain experts are possible to guess their meaning.In fact,phrases are the main unit for people to express semantics.This paper presents a Distributed Representation-Phrase Latent Dirichlet Allocation(DR-Phrase LDA)which is a phrase topic model.Specifically,we reasonably enhance the semantic information of phrases via distributed representation in this model.The experimental results show the topics quality acquired by our model is more readable and consistent than other similar topic models.展开更多
It is widely known that a finite verb phrase(fVP)of a clause in English consists of three components:tense,aspect and voice.While the two tenses,present and past,and the two voices,active and passive,are recognized an...It is widely known that a finite verb phrase(fVP)of a clause in English consists of three components:tense,aspect and voice.While the two tenses,present and past,and the two voices,active and passive,are recognized and generally agreed,the number and constituents of aspects may not be so simple and they are open to dispute.This paper proposes that a new aspect,the“modal”aspect,be included in addition to the commonly recognized ones,namely“simple”,“perfect”and“continuous”(also known as“progressive”).With the inclusion of the“modal”aspect,there are four single aspects:“simple”,“modal”,“perfect”and“continuous”.They can be combined to form multiple aspects according to the aforesaid sequence.The“modal”aspect is realized with a modal verb(any ofthe modal verbs will/would,shall/should,can/could,may/might,must,ought to,used to and the two semi-modals,“need”and“dare”in interrogative and negative structures).Whenever a modal verb is used,the verb phrase is in the modal aspect.The modal verb to be used is for the interlocutor to decide and falls beyond this discussion,which focuses on the structure of the fVP of the English language.The two tenses,eight aspects and two voices(active and passive)make up the 32 TAVs(an acronym formed with“Tense”,“Aspect”and“Voice”)of the English fVP.The“discovery”of the“modal”aspect and its incorporation in the aspect system of English might have a significant impact on the learning of English for non-native speakers as they would have a clearer and more precise concept about the“TAVs”of the English fVP.展开更多
In Mandarin Chinese,when the noun head appears in the context,a quantity noun phrase can be reduced to a quantity phrase with the noun head omitted.This phrase structure is called elliptical quantity noun phrase.The a...In Mandarin Chinese,when the noun head appears in the context,a quantity noun phrase can be reduced to a quantity phrase with the noun head omitted.This phrase structure is called elliptical quantity noun phrase.The automatic recovery of elliptical quantity noun phrase is crucial in syntactic parsing,semantic representation and other downstream tasks.In this paper,we propose a hybrid neural network model to identify the semantic category for elliptical quantity noun phrases and realize the recovery of omitted semantics by supplementing concept categories.Firstly,we use BERT to generate character-level vectors.Secondly,Bi-LSTM is applied to capture the context information of each character and compress the input into the context memory history.Then CNN is utilized to capture the local semantics of n-grams with various granularities.Based on the Chinese Abstract Meaning Representation(CAMR)corpus and Xinhua News Agency corpus,we construct a hand-labeled elliptical quantity noun phrase dataset and carry out the semantic recovery of elliptical quantity noun phrase on this dataset.The experimental results show that our hybrid neural network model can effectively improve the performance of the semantic complement for the elliptical quantity noun phrases.展开更多
There are three probabilities to claim that Mandarin Chinese has multiple Determiner Phrase （DP） structures： （1） Simpson （2001） takes “de” in nominal phrase as the head of the structure： “Zhangsan de shu” ...There are three probabilities to claim that Mandarin Chinese has multiple Determiner Phrase （DP） structures： （1） Simpson （2001） takes “de” in nominal phrase as the head of the structure： “Zhangsan de shu” is a DP and “de” is the head D. In this theory, when “de” and demonstratives like “this/that” appear in the same structure, there is going to be a multiple DP structure. （2） Huang, Li ＆ Li （2008） take both pronouns and demonstratives as the heads of the appositive structures like “tamen zhe sange haizi”. In this opinion, Mandarin Chinese has Split-D structures like Italian, Hungarian and Greek. （3） It seems that a Mandarin DP could have double heads D when two determiners both appear in the same structure. In “renhe zhe lei wenti”, the determiners “renhe” and “zhe” both appear. The structure is going to be analyzed as a multiple DP or a Split-D structure. However, the paper proves that Mandarin Chinese has no multiple DP structures, not like Italian, Hungarian or Greek.展开更多
Editor’s note:In this column we introduce phrases frequently used in the Chinese media and by the Chinese government,thereby providing a succinct overview of China’s political thinking,its policies,and ongoing refor...Editor’s note:In this column we introduce phrases frequently used in the Chinese media and by the Chinese government,thereby providing a succinct overview of China’s political thinking,its policies,and ongoing reforms and transitions.展开更多
基金National Key Research and Development Program of China,Grant/Award Number:2023YFC3305003National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant/Award Number:62376076。
文摘Bilingual lexicon induction focuses on learning word translation pairs,also known as bitexts,from monolingual corpora by establishing a mapping between the source and target embedding spaces.Despite recent advancements,bilingual lexicon induction is limited to inducing bitexts consisting of individual words,lacking the ability to handle semantics-rich phrases.To bridge this gap and support downstream cross-lingual tasks,it is practical to develop a method for bilingual phrase induction that extracts bilingual phrase pairs from monolingual corpora without relying on cross-lingual knowledge.In this paper,the authors propose a novel phrase embedding training method based on the skip-gram structure.Specifically,a local hard negative sampling strategy that utilises negative samples of central tokens in sliding windows to enhance phrase embedding learning is introduced.The proposed method achieves competitive or superior performance compared to baseline approaches,with exceptional results recorded for distant languages.Additionally,we develop a phrase representation learning method that leverages multilingual pre-trained language models.These mPLMs-based representations can be combined with the above-mentioned static phrase embeddings to further improve the accuracy of the bilingual phrase induction task.We manually construct a dataset of bilingual phrase pairs and integrate it with MUSE to facilitate the bilingual phrase induction task.
文摘Idioms,collocations,and formulaic phrases are three factors playing the important role in the second language acquisition(SLA).This essay firstly deals with the definitions of these concepts,then it illustrates the importance of them to SLA on two perspectives—idioms,collocations,and formulaic phrases respectively and they regarded as a whole.Therefore,in this way,the essay may lead to the answer the question“How are idioms,collocations,and formulaic phrases important to SLA?”
文摘Translators frequently come across metaphors and similes, which are important ways of figure of speech. Figures of speech are actually vehicles of culture, and metaphorical phrases are the essence of human's culture. So the strategies adopted in the translation of metaphors and similes are the reflection of the translators' attitude towards culture. This paper holds the belief that foreignization should be the main translation strategy when dealing with the metaphorical phrases bearing cultural connotations.
文摘This paper will firstly introduce the categories and main characteristics of English lexical phrases.Then a discussion over the function of English lexical phrases will be carried out from the angle of second language acquisition.The author holds the view that lexical phrases play an important role in second language acquisition,which can be summarized as follows:firstly,the acceleration of language fluency;secondly,the improvement of lexical selection ability;thirdly,the enhancement of pragmatic awareness.
文摘A majority of contracts will use many prepositions and prepositional phrases to reflect their preciseness which cause the treaty wording complicated and hard to understand. This paper tends to demonstrate the characteristics of the prepositions and prepositional phrases used in business English contracts and explore the translation strategies used in translating the features of the prepositions and the prepositional phrases in business English contracts. The findings of this paper can provide a reference for the majority of the trade workers, which can help them accurately and effectively draft or translate a contract and avoid unnecessary disputes.
文摘As is known to all, vocabulary acquisition plays an essential role in English learning. However, it was supposed very difficult to many Chinese learners. For the reason that so many kinds of approaches exists in the real life, English learners are always do not know which one is suitable and more effective. To solve this problem, the paper will analyze two approaches (point approach and phrase approach) for you.
文摘A surge in post-publication activity related to editing,including by technical editors and copyeditors,is worthy of some discussion.One of these issues involves the issue of'tortured phrases',which are bizarre terms and phrases in academic papers that replace standard English expressions or jargon.This phenomenon may reveal an attempt to avoid the detection of textual similarity or to masquerade plagiarism,and yet remain undetected by editors,peer reviewers and text editors.Potentially thousands of cases have already been discovered and reported publicly on the post-publication platform PubPeer.In this opinion paper,35 cases from ranked scholarly journals are presented,mainly the fields of materials,computer and engineering sciences.This collation serves to expand discussion about this integrity-related phenomenon and to increase educational awareness of the topic.
基金the High Technology Research and Develop-ment Program of China (No.2004AA117010-08).
文摘Loose phrase extraction method is proposed and applied for phrase-based statistical ma- chine translation. The method extracts phrase pairs that are not strictly consistent with word align- ments. Two types of constraints on word positions are investigated for this method. Furthermore, n-best alignments are introduced for phrase extraction instead of the one-best. Experimental results show that the proposed approach outperforms the baseline system, Pharaoh system, for both one-best and n-best alignments.
基金This work was supported by the Project of Industry and University Cooperative Research of Jiangsu Province,China(No.BY2019051)Ma,J.would like to thank the Jiangsu Eazytec Information Technology Company(www.eazytec.com)for their financial support.
文摘Traditional topic models have been widely used for analyzing semantic topics from electronic documents.However,the obvious defects of topic words acquired by them are poor in readability and consistency.Only the domain experts are possible to guess their meaning.In fact,phrases are the main unit for people to express semantics.This paper presents a Distributed Representation-Phrase Latent Dirichlet Allocation(DR-Phrase LDA)which is a phrase topic model.Specifically,we reasonably enhance the semantic information of phrases via distributed representation in this model.The experimental results show the topics quality acquired by our model is more readable and consistent than other similar topic models.
文摘It is widely known that a finite verb phrase(fVP)of a clause in English consists of three components:tense,aspect and voice.While the two tenses,present and past,and the two voices,active and passive,are recognized and generally agreed,the number and constituents of aspects may not be so simple and they are open to dispute.This paper proposes that a new aspect,the“modal”aspect,be included in addition to the commonly recognized ones,namely“simple”,“perfect”and“continuous”(also known as“progressive”).With the inclusion of the“modal”aspect,there are four single aspects:“simple”,“modal”,“perfect”and“continuous”.They can be combined to form multiple aspects according to the aforesaid sequence.The“modal”aspect is realized with a modal verb(any ofthe modal verbs will/would,shall/should,can/could,may/might,must,ought to,used to and the two semi-modals,“need”and“dare”in interrogative and negative structures).Whenever a modal verb is used,the verb phrase is in the modal aspect.The modal verb to be used is for the interlocutor to decide and falls beyond this discussion,which focuses on the structure of the fVP of the English language.The two tenses,eight aspects and two voices(active and passive)make up the 32 TAVs(an acronym formed with“Tense”,“Aspect”and“Voice”)of the English fVP.The“discovery”of the“modal”aspect and its incorporation in the aspect system of English might have a significant impact on the learning of English for non-native speakers as they would have a clearer and more precise concept about the“TAVs”of the English fVP.
基金This research is supported by the National Science Foundation of China(Grant 61772278,author:Qu,W.Grant Number:61472191,author:Zhou,J.http://www.nsfc.gov.cn/),the National Social Science Foundation of China(Grant Number:18BYY127,author:Li B.http://www.cssn.cn),the Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of Jiangsu Higher Institution(Grant Number:2019SJA0220,author:Wei,T.https://jyt.jiangsu.gov.cn)and Jiangsu Higher Institutions’Excellent Innovative Team for Philosophy and Social Science(Grant Number:2017STD006,author:Qu,W.https://jyt.jiangsu.gov.cn)。
文摘In Mandarin Chinese,when the noun head appears in the context,a quantity noun phrase can be reduced to a quantity phrase with the noun head omitted.This phrase structure is called elliptical quantity noun phrase.The automatic recovery of elliptical quantity noun phrase is crucial in syntactic parsing,semantic representation and other downstream tasks.In this paper,we propose a hybrid neural network model to identify the semantic category for elliptical quantity noun phrases and realize the recovery of omitted semantics by supplementing concept categories.Firstly,we use BERT to generate character-level vectors.Secondly,Bi-LSTM is applied to capture the context information of each character and compress the input into the context memory history.Then CNN is utilized to capture the local semantics of n-grams with various granularities.Based on the Chinese Abstract Meaning Representation(CAMR)corpus and Xinhua News Agency corpus,we construct a hand-labeled elliptical quantity noun phrase dataset and carry out the semantic recovery of elliptical quantity noun phrase on this dataset.The experimental results show that our hybrid neural network model can effectively improve the performance of the semantic complement for the elliptical quantity noun phrases.
文摘There are three probabilities to claim that Mandarin Chinese has multiple Determiner Phrase （DP） structures： （1） Simpson （2001） takes “de” in nominal phrase as the head of the structure： “Zhangsan de shu” is a DP and “de” is the head D. In this theory, when “de” and demonstratives like “this/that” appear in the same structure, there is going to be a multiple DP structure. （2） Huang, Li ＆ Li （2008） take both pronouns and demonstratives as the heads of the appositive structures like “tamen zhe sange haizi”. In this opinion, Mandarin Chinese has Split-D structures like Italian, Hungarian and Greek. （3） It seems that a Mandarin DP could have double heads D when two determiners both appear in the same structure. In “renhe zhe lei wenti”, the determiners “renhe” and “zhe” both appear. The structure is going to be analyzed as a multiple DP or a Split-D structure. However, the paper proves that Mandarin Chinese has no multiple DP structures, not like Italian, Hungarian or Greek.
文摘Editor’s note:In this column we introduce phrases frequently used in the Chinese media and by the Chinese government,thereby providing a succinct overview of China’s political thinking,its policies,and ongoing reforms and transitions.
