This paper describes an implemented computational model of lexical development for the case of action verbs. A simulated agent is trained by an informant labeling the agent's actions (here hand motions), and the system learns to both label and carry out similar actions. The verb learning model is placed in the broader context of the NTL project on embodied natural language and its acquisition. ...

The purpose of this paper is to identify automatically hypernyms for dictionary entries by exploring their definitions. In order to do this, we propose a weighting methodology that lets us assign to each lexeme a weight in a definition. This fact allows us to predict that lexemes with the highest weight are the closest hypernyms of the defined lexeme in the dictionary. The extracted semantic re...

The patterns of semantic errors in speaking and writing are used to constrain claims about the structure of lexical access mechanisms in speech and written language production. It is argued that it is not necessary to postulate a modality-neutral level of lexical representation (lemma) that is intermediate between lexical-semantic representations and modality-specific lexical representations. A...

This paper describes a technique to include acoustic confidence scores as returned by automated speech recognisers in generic semantic representations. The method we propose requires only minimal changes to an existing grammar used for speech applications. Special attention is paid to the treatment of multi-word lexemes and combining several (N-best) speech recognition results into one semantic...

We present the INSYSE method for the annotation of texts, based on extraction of semantic relations from syntactic structures. We apply this method to a corpus of 5000 Medline abstracts about central nervous system diseases and gene interactions. Our cooperative approach focuses on (1) extracting lexico-syntactic information from sentences in the corpus comprising causation lexemes and (2) elab...

Artikkeli tarkastelee yleiskielen hd-yhtymän (kahdeksan) esiintymiä Helsingin puhekielessä ja mallintaa katomuotojen (kaheksan) etenemistä reaaliajassa. Artikkelin aineistona käytetään osaa puhekielen pitkittäiskorpuksesta, joka kattaa haastatteluja kolmesta eri aikapisteestä: 1970-, 1990- 2010-luvuilta. esittää kokonaiskuvan variaatiosta muutoksesta näiden kolmen aikapisteen välillä myös lekse...

The subject of this publication is related to such directions modern linguistics as critical discourse analysis, media linguistics, and text semantics. article examines the features Ukraine on example antonymic semantic relations that are result discursive practice. demonstrates facts emergence functioning pseudo-antonymic opposition. research based economic topics articles published in Ukraini...

The Abstract Much effort has been put into computational lexicons over tile years, and most systems give much room to (lexical) semantic data. However, in these systems, the effort put on tile study and representation of lexical items to express the umterlying continuum existing in 1) language vagueness and polysemy, and 2) language gaps and mismatches, has remained embryonic. A sense enumerati...

The article presents Slovenian dialect names for cutlery used in eating or preparing food – spoon, knife and fork, from a geolinguistic, word-formational as well etymological semantic-motivational perspective. ethnological framework serves particular to present the reasons (non-)borrowing of lexemes. It turns out that terms spoon are not diverse point view borrowing, since denotata have been us...

This paper compares two analyses of interfixal-paradigmatic formations in Polish, such as listonosz ‘mail carrier’ and korkociąg ‘corkscrew’. They are often interpreted exocentric compounds consisting a noun stem verb connected by linking vowel, i.e. [N+LV+V]N (Kurzowa; Booij, “Morphology”). The proposal defended here is the treatment lexemes [N+LV+[V]N]N compounds, which right-hand stems assum...