Lexical Simplification is the task of reducing the lexical complexity of textual documents by replacing difficult words with easier to read (or understand) expressions while preserving the original meaning. The development of robust pipelined multilingual architectures able to adapt to new languages is of paramount importance in lexical simplification. This paper describes and evaluates a modul...

Sub-categorized arguments introduced by the French preposition pour has been under-studied in previous work, as can be seen from the incompleteness of existing lexical-syntactic resources in that regard. In this paper, we briefly introduce the various types of sub-categorization in pour, which are to be distinguished from occurrences of pour as a discourse connective. We describe how we added a...

The situation with regard to Russian language resources is fragmented and disorganized. For this reason, it is important to promote for Russian the development of its basic resources in one package that could be used for development of speech products. The paper presents a design of the Russian lexical databases, corpora and supporting tools (system for construction and support of lexical datab...

In this paper I evaluate extant lexical acquisition techniques for NLP systems with respect to the problem of polysemy. I argue that available lexical resources are inadequate for creating computational lexica capable of addressing the generativity of language use. I suggest several desiderata for lexical resources, to increase their utility for lexical acquisition in the context of polysemy: f...

In this study, we present a crosslinguistic analysis of early lexical development in English, Mandarin and Cantonese based on large-scale child-adult interaction transcripts in the CHILDES database. We examined patterns of lexical composition for several lexical categories (nouns, verbs, and adjectives) in children and their caregivers’ vocabularies across eight different age groups from 13 to ...

objectives: nouns and verbs are the central conceptual linguistic units of language acquisition in all human languages. while the noun-bias hypothesis claims that nouns have a privilege in children’s lexical development across languages, studies on mandarin and korean and other languages have challenged this view. more recent cross-linguistic naming studies on children in german, turkish, engli...

This paper describes the development of a metric for measuring the semantic distance or similarity of words using the WordNet lexical database. Such a metric could be of use in development of search engines and text retrieval systems, tasks for which the richness of natural language can cause difficulty. Further, such a metric can prove invaluable to psycholinguists who wish to study lexical se...

New generations of integrated multimodal speech and language systems with dictation, readback or talking face facilities require multiple sources of lexical information for development and evaluation. Recent developments in hyperlexicon development offer new perspectives for the development of such resources which are at the same time practically useful, computationally feasible, and theoretica...