Lexical Knowledge Representation with Contexonyms

Automatic Contexonym Organizing Model (ACOM)

Normal language user’s word-association intuition (e.g. drunken – stagger) raises questions about the mental lexicon organization and its application for natural language processing tasks. We present an automatic contextually related words (contexonym) organizing model (ACOM) that reflects this intuition, giving one of the possible answers to this question. Trained on large corpora, the model (...

The Effect of Semantic Transfer on Iranian EFL Learners’ Lexical Representation and Processing

Mental Representation of Cognates/Noncognates in Persian-Speaking EFL Learners

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mental representation of cognate and noncognate translation pairs in languages with different scripts to test the prediction of dual lexicon model (Gollan, Forster, & Frost, 1997). Two groups of Persian-speaking English language learners were tested on cognate and noncognate translation pairs in Persian-English and English-Persian directions with...

Hierarchical Lexical Structure And Interpretive Mapping In Machine Translation

Large-scale knowledge-based machine translation requires significant amounts of lexical knowledge in order to map syntactic structures to conceptual structures. Tfiis paper presents a framework in which lexical knowledge is separated into different levels of representation, which are arranged in a hierarchical model based on principles of knowledge representation and lexical semantics. The prop...

Etymology, Contextual Pragmatic Clues, and Lexical Knowledge in L2 Idioms Learning

To investigate the effects of etymological elaboration, contextual pragmatic clues, and lexical knowledge on L2 idioms comprehension and production, 60 male intermediate level EFL students in three groups were selected. Each group was randomly assigned to one treatment condition. Group one participants were presented with the etymological explanation of idioms. In group two, the same idioms wer...