Multilingual lexical resources provide information about linguistic relation of words in-between languages. On the other hand, huge document collections like the World Wide Web provide statistical information about the distribution and co-occurrence of words in almost all languages. In this paper, we present a tool that was designed to combine the information from both resources in order to sup...

In acquiring word meanings, learners are often confronted by a single word form that is mapped to two or more meanings. For example, long after how to roller-"skate", one may learn that "skate" is also a kind of fish. Such learning of new meanings for familiar words involves two potentially contrasting processes, relative to new form-new meaning learning: 1) Form-based familiarity may facilitat...

Semantic ambiguity can occur either as a consequence of ambiguity between unrelated meanings (e.g. bank) or ambiguity between related senses (e.g. hook). Early research did not distinguish between the two, finding that ambiguous words were recognized faster than unambiguous words. More recently it has been shown that words with many meanings suffer from a disadvantage in terms of recognition ti...

objectives: stuttering is one of the most prevalent speech and language disorders. symptomology of stuttering has been surveyed from different aspects such as biological, developmental, environmental, emotional, learning and linguistic. previous researches in english-speaking people have suggested that some linguistic features such as word meanings may play a role in the frequency of speech non...

charity (zakat) has different meanings; one is the literal meaning and the other is the religious one. his excellency ali (peace be upon him) paid his charity (zakat) while praying when he hears a poor man's words asking for help; he donated his signet. different poets have poems about this event.

But doing this requires fairly complex inference, because the words “block”, “enter”, “can”, “not” and “deliver” carve up the world in different ways.1 Words describe the world, so if we are going to draw the appropriate inferences in understanding a text, we must have underlying theories of aspects of the world and we must have axioms that link these to words. This includes domain-dependent kn...