"rhis paperI presents a computational method for the recognition of the cohesive and coherence structures of texts. A large lexieal knowledge base built oil top of WordNet provides with the lexico-senmntic information that needs to be mined. A path-finding algorittam returns tim cot~esive structure of a text with results that outperform previous api~roaches. The Icxical paths contained in the c...

In this paper the problem is discussed about the text structure determination and content analysis by lexical parall~lism, o r the repetition of lexical items. Intersentential relations are determined through the identical, partly identical or lexico-semantic repetition in Japanese scientific texts. Lexical parallelism ratio and lexical parallelism indicator distance are obtained on computer an...

Automatic Construction of a Contextual Valence Shifters Lexicon The research presented in this paper takes place in the field of Opinion Mining, which is mainly devoted to assigning a positive or negative label to a text or a sentence. The context of a highly polarized word plays an essential role, as it can modify its original polarity. The present work addresses this issue and focuses on the ...

This paper aims at highlighting the complex lexico-semantic information entailed in Chinese shape classifiers. The study is based on a selection of the same as derived from extensive literature. The goal is to introduce shape information in wordnets in a comprehensive way starting by shape classifiers. The suggestion is to map them not just as information coercers, but also as lexical items (no...

The human turn-taking system regulates the smooth and precise exchange of speaking turns during face-to-face interaction. Recent studies investigated the processing of on-going turns during conversation by measuring the eye movements of non-involved observers. The findings suggest that humans shift their gaze in anticipation to the next speaker before the start of the next turn. Moreover, there...

Interaction of lexical and derivational semantics---for example substitution and lambda conversion--is typically a part of the on-line interpretation process. Proof-nets are to categorial grammar what phrase markers are to phrase structure grammar: unique graphical structures underlying equivalence classes of sequential syntactic derivations; but the role of proof-nets is deeper since they inte...

This study evaluated the critical period hypothesis for second language (L2) acquisition. The participants were 240 native speakers of Korean who differed according to age of arrival (AOA) in the United States (1 to 23 years), but were all experienced in English (mean length of residence 5 15 years). The native Korean participants’ pronunciation of English was evaluated by having listeners rate...

This article examines the role of subjective familiarity in the implicit and explicit learning of artificial grammars. Experiment 1 found that objective measures of similarity (including fragment frequency and repetition structure) predicted ratings of familiarity, that familiarity ratings predicted grammaticality judgments, and that the extremity of familiarity ratings predicted confidence. Fa...

The demand for computer-assisted language learning systems that can provide corrective feedback on language learners’ speaking has increased. However, it is not a trivial task to detect grammatical errors in oral conversations because of the unavoidable errors of automatic speech recognition systems. To provide corrective feedback, a novel method to detect grammatical errors in speaking perform...