Morphological knowledge (inflection, derivation, compounds) is useful for medical language processing. Some is available for medical English in the UMLS Specialist Lexicon, but not for the French language. Large corpora of medical texts can nowadays be obtained from the Web. We propose here a method, based on the cooccurrence of formally similar words, which takes advantage of such a corpus to ...

Two hundred forty English-speaking toddlers (24- and 36-month-olds) heard novel adjectives applied to familiar objects (Experiment 1) and novel objects (Experiment 2). Children were successful in mapping adjectives to target properties only when information provided by the noun, in conjunction with participants' knowledge of the objects, provided coherent category information: when basic-level ...

In this paper we explain the building of an English lexicon of adjectives and their semantic orientations. Rather than defining the semantic orientation of a term as a single value, we induce many real values representing the semantic orientation of that term being used in different domains. The automatic building of this resource has been based on the construction of graphs from conjunctive ex...

Early language development is characterized by predictable changes in the words children produce and the complexity of their utterances. In infants, these changes could reflect increasing linguistic expertise or cognitive maturation and development. To disentangle these factors, we compared the acquisition of English in internationally-adopted preschoolers and internationally-adopted infants. P...

“WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptualsemantic and lexical relations.” (see the project’s web site http://wordnet.princeton.edu/ ) . WordNets have been develope...

Adjectives like good, great, and excellent are similar in meaning, but differ in intensity. Intensity order information is very useful for language learners as well as in several NLP tasks, but is missing in most lexical resources (dictionaries, WordNet, and thesauri). In this paper, we present a primarily unsupervised approach that uses semantics from Web-scale data (e.g., phrases like good bu...

Previous studies have shown effects of rated danger and usefulness on lexical access. All of them have used stimuli selected for connotations of danger and/or usefulness. Stimuli for the present lexical decision study were all of the nouns, verbs, and adjectives from the Balota et al. (2002) English Lexicon Project (subject to constraints relating to experimental control; none had anything to d...

Online blog data provide numerous benefits over clinical and laboratory studies, including increased sample size and more genuine responses. By investigating the number of feeling words that a blogger uses in a blog sentence, we can characterize the degree to which individuals elaborate on their emotional experiences. In this study, data were obtained from the website, wefeelfine.org, which col...

AAAI 2004 Spring Symposium Exploring Attitude and Affect in Text Department of Linguistics Simon Fraser University Burnaby, B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada Carletta, J. 1996. Assessing agreement on classification tasks: the kappa statistic. 22 (2): 249-154. Hatzivassiloglou, V., and McKeown, K. 1997. Predicting the semantic orientation of adjectives. In , 174-181. Krippendorf, K. 1980. Beverly Hills, CA:...

We present a lemma induction scheme on a target language through minimally supervised alignment and transfer methods utilizing English-to-German parallel corpora. Compared to previous alignment and transfer approaches, the approach outlined here increases computational efficiency and significantly reduces the level of supervision necessary in inducing clusters of inflectional forms. Furthermore...