Aim. To identify the linguo-stylistic and lexical-semantic features of verbalizing characters’ emotions typical for fictional diary genre. Methodology. The study was conducted using methods interpretation analysis text, continuous sampling, categorization classification, as well descriptive statistical methods. Results . revealed that predominant ways a character in diaries are implicit. showed...

Computer programs that make inferences about natural language are easily fooled by the often haphazard relationship between words and their meanings. This thesis develops Lexical Semantic Analysis (LxSA), a general-purpose framework for describing word groupings and meanings in context. LxSA marries comprehensive linguistic annotation of corpora with engineering of statistical natural language ...

In our recent book, we present a parallel distributed processing theory of the acquisition, representation and use of human semantic knowledge. The theory proposes that semantic abilities arise from the flow of activation amongst simple, neuron-like processing units, as governed by the strengths of interconnecting weights; and that acquisition of new semantic information involves the gradual ad...

In most natural language processing systems there is no representation of the semantic knowledge of lexical units, but just subcategorization frames, selection restrictions and links to other paradigmatically-related lexical units. Some NLP systems, e.g. machine translation or dialogue-based systems, attempt to “understand” the input text by translating it into some kind of formal language-inde...

In this thesis, I investigate how lexical resources based on the organisation of lexical knowledge in classes which share common (syntactic, semantic, etc.) features support natural language processing and in particular symbolic recognition of textual entailment. First, I present a robust and wide coverage approach to lexico-structural verb paraphrase recognition based on Levin’s (1993) classif...

What is the underlying representation of lexical knowledge? How do we know whether a given string of letters is a word, whereas another string of letters is not? There are two competing models of lexical processing in the literature. The first proposes that we rely on mental lexicons. The second claims there are no mental lexicons; we identify certain items as words based on semantic knowledge....

In this paper, we propose an alternative to interlingua which can capture the analyses and generalizations that interlinguas can express, but which uses cross-linguistic semantic features rather than a separate level of representation. This alternative we call lexico-structural transfer. Lexico-structural transfer relies on the expressive power of a lexicalized syntactic representation (or “lex...

The alignment of different ontologies requires the specification, representation and execution of translation rules. The rules need to integrate translations at the lexical, the syntactic and the semantic layer requiring semantic reasoning as well as low-level specification of adhoc conversions of data. Existing formalisms for representing translation rules cannot cover the representation needs...