Automatic lexical acquisition from corpora: some limitations and tentative solutions

Automatic Lexical Acquisition from Raw Corpora: An Application to Russian

The production of lexical categories (VP) and functional categories (copula) at the initial stage of child L2 acquisition

This is a longitudinal case study of two Farsi-speaking children learning English: ‘Bernard’ and ‘Melissa’, who were 7;4 and 8;4 at the start of data collection. The research deals with the initial state and further development in the child second language (L2) acquisition of syntax regarding the presence or absence of copula as a functional category, as well as the role and degree of L1 influe...

A Corpus-based Study of Lexical Bundles in Discussion Section of Medical Research Articles

There has been increasing interest in utilizing corpora in linguistic research and pedagogy in recent years. Rhetorical organization of different sections of research articles may appear similar in various disciplines, but close examination may show subtle differences nonetheless. One of the features that has been at the center of attention especially in recent years is the idiomaticity of a di...

Automatic Acquisition of Domain Specific Lexicons

In this paper we present the results of three years of experiments about automatic acquisition of domain specific terminology from corpora. We present an analysis of the potentiality and limitations of the Term Categorization approach to lexical acquisition, and we propose a novel methodology to approach the task, consisting on applying Latent Semantic Kernels to estimate term similarity. We fi...

Towards Semi Automatic Construction of a Lexical Ontology for Persian

Lexical ontologies and semantic lexicons are important resources in natural language processing. They are used in various tasks and applications, especially where semantic processing is evolved such as question answering, machine translation, text understanding, information retrieval and extraction, content management, text summarization, knowledge acquisition and semantic search engines. Altho...