Lexical knowledge is knowledge that can be expressed in words. Circular though this may seem, we think it provides a perfectly reasonable point of departure, for, in line with a long-standing philosophical tradition it posits communicability as the most characteristic aspect of lexical knowledge. Knowledge representation systems should be designed so as to fit lexical data rather than the other...

We present two NLP components for the Story Cloze Task – dictionary-based sentiment analysis and lexical cohesion. While previous research found no contribution from sentiment analysis to the accuracy on this task, we demonstrate that sentiment is an important aspect. We describe a new approach, using a rule that estimates sentiment congruence in a story. Our sentiment-based system achieves str...

The CASK method (Computer-aided Acquisition of Semantic Knowledge) is being used at CELTA with the SEMANA (SEMantic ANAlyser) software, which was especially designed for this purpose. We use the notation of semantic feature structures as a meta-language for describing the category of aspect in Polish regardless of its pertaining to various levels of expression (morphological, syntactical or lex...

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is attracting attention from both research and industry, as illustrated by the ever-growing popularity of AspectJ, the de facto standard AOP extension of Java. From a compiler construction perspective, AspectJ is interesting as it is a typical example of a compositional language, i.e. a language composed of a number of separate languages with different syntacti...

We aim to study the Aktionsart or lexical aspect of chromatic verbal expressions such as rougir de colère (blush with anger). The is twofold. First, show that verb blush in these not same one appears purely uses Les pommes rougissent au soleil (Apples sun). Secondly, explain originality Aktionsart’s “chromo-affective” use

Whether verbs have to be marked as punctual vs. durative has been a controversial issue from the very beginnings of research on aktionsarten in the last century right on up to modern theories of aspectual classes and aspect composition. Debates about the linguistic necessity of this distinction have often been accompanied by the question of what it means for a verb to be temporally punctual. In...

Phonological variation in spoken words is a ubiquitous aspect of spontaneous speech and presents a challenge for recognition of spoken words. We discuss two classes of models, abstract and episodic, that have been proposed for spoken word recognition. Abstract theories rely on inference processes and/or underspecified representations to account for spoken word recognition. Episodic theories ass...

Ontology matching is an essential aspect of the Semantic Web with a goal of finding alignments among the entities of given ontologies. Ontology matching is a necessary step for establishing interoperation and knowledge sharing among Semantic Web applications. In this study we present an algorithm and a tool developed based on this algorithm to find correspondences among entities of input ontolo...