The goal of this longitudinal study was to examine how lexical quality predicts the emergence of literacy abilities in 169 Dutch kindergarten children before formal reading instruction has started. At the beginning of the school year, a battery of precursor measures associated with lexical quality was related to the emergence of letter knowledge and word decoding. Confirmatory factor analysis e...

A study is reported of mathematical vocabulary and factual mathematical knowledge in PQ, a 22 year old with Down's syndrome (DS) who has a verbal mental age (MA) of 9 years 2 months and ST, a 15 year old with Williams syndrome (WS) who has a verbal MA of 9 years 6 months, matched to typically developing controls. The number of mathematical words contained within PQ's lexical stores was signific...

Disambiguation, particularly that of lexical meanings is the key problem involved in natural language processing (NLP), and among many means of achieving this end, is to construct a language knowledge base. Nowadays, the knowledge bases established tend to be more and more advanced and fine-grained, with the function of providing the lexical information improved a lot. This paper tries to argue...

Lexical knowledge is increasingly important in language engineering. However, it is a dii-cult kind of knowledge to represent and reason with. Existing approaches to formalizing lexical knowledge have used languages with limited expressibility and in particular they have not addressed the context-dependent nature of lexical knowledge. Here we present a framework, based on default logic, called ...