Many methods of term extraction have been discussed in terms of their accuracy on huge corpora. However, when we try to apply various methods that derive from frequency to a small corpus, we may not be able to achieve sufficient accuracy because of the shortage of statistical information on frequency. This paper reports a new way of extracting terms that is tuned for a very small corpus. It foc...

Sixteen children (17 age mates, 17 vocabulary mates) with specific language impairment (SLI) participated in two studies. In the first, they named fantasy objects. All groups coined novel noun-noun compounds on a majority of trials but only the SLI group had difficulty ordering the nouns as dictated by semantic context. In the second study, the children described the meaning of conventional nou...

In this paper we present how finite state transducers can be effectively used for compound treatment in text analysis. The approach that we use is particularly well suited for text processing based on the usage of morphological electronic dictionaries and finite state technology. The results that we present do not aim to be comprehensive but rather illustrative of the power of possibilities, on...

The present study investigated the limits of semantic processing without awareness, during continuous flash suppression (CFS). We used compound remote associate word problems, in which three seemingly unrelated words (e.g., pine, crab, sauce) form a common compound with a single solution word (e.g., apple). During the first 3 s of each trial, the three problem words or three irrelevant words (c...

We propose a new method to construct a word list for rule induction from Japanese patent documents. For word segmentation in Japanese, statistical morphological analyzers have been used in many applications. However, the output of these morphological analyzers presents defects when analyzing unknown words, specifically words that contain Kanji/Katakana morphemes. Some words are overly segmented...