One of the most common lexical misuse problems in the second language context concerns near synonyms. Dictionaries and thesauri often overlook the nuances of near synonyms and make reference to near synonyms in providing definitions. The semantic differences and implications of near synonyms are not easily recognized and often fail to be acquired by L2 learners. This study addressed the distinc...

As Chinese text is written without word boundaries, effectively recognizing Chinese words is like recognizing collocations in English, substituting characters for words and words for collocations. However, existing topical models that involve collocations have a common limitation. Instead of directly assigning a topic to a collocation, they take the topic of a word within the collocation as the...

An important problem in large vocabulary speech recognition for agglutinative languages like Turkish is the high out of vocabulary (OOV) rate caused by extensive number of distinct words. Recognition systems using words as the basic lexical elements have difficulty in dealing with such virtually unlimited vocabulary. We propose a new time-synchronous lexical tree decoder design using morphemes ...

Text classification in the medical domain is a real world problem with wide applicability. This paper investigates extensively the effect of text representation approaches on the performance of medical document classification. To accomplish this objective, we evaluated seven different approaches to represent real word medical documents. The text representation approaches investigated in this pa...

In Mandarin Chinese, lexical semantic relation of near synonyms is a widespread phenomenon, and is of great interest to many linguists. Most works deal with lexical semantic relation between lexical entries. This paper investigates the differences between Chinese near synonymous sensation verbs based on the data from “Academia Sinica Balanced Corpus of Modern Mandarin Chinese” (Sinica Corpus) a...

This paper presents lexical statistics on the pattern of occurrence of words embedded in other words. We report the results of an analysis of 25000 words, varying in length from two to six syllables, extracted from a phonetically-coded English dictionary (The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English). Each syllable, and each string of syllables within each word was checked against the diction...

The organization and management of the intense computation involved in the solution of large, sparse and non-symmetric systems of equations, arising from the discretization of Elliptic Boundary Value Problems (BVPs) by the Hermite Collocation method, on a Distributed-Shared Memory (DSM) multiprocessor environment is the problem considered herein. As the size of the problem directly suggests the...