A very large Russian dictionary is described. It contains currently 3.6 million links between its 120,000 entries. The links are syntagmatic (collocations), paradigmatic (WordNet-like), or paronymic (words similar in letters or in morphs). The entries of the dictionary are singleor multiwords belonging to four main POS. The entries represent so-called grammemes rather than lexemes: e.g., nouns ...

This paper is an analysis of lexical choices, pronunciation errors, and discourse features found in a corpus of student presentation speech. The speakers were Swedish natives studying Technical English. Particular emphasis is given to the pronunciation of the words most often used in academic texts. 93% of words used in the corpus came from the most frequent 2570 lexemes of academic written Eng...

Functional Arabic Morphology is a formulation of the Arabic inflectional system seeking the working interface between morphology and syntax. ElixirFM is its high-level implementation that reuses and extends the Functional Morphology library for Haskell. Inflection and derivation are modeled in terms of paradigms, grammatical categories, lexemes and word classes. The computation of analysis or g...

A recently started project on building the Polish WordNet is the background to the presented work. Here, an initial approach to automatic extraction of semantic similarity relation between Polish lexemes is discussed. The approach follows directly the main lines of Latent Semantic Analysis, but it is modified in order to cope with the rich inflection of Polish and the lack of a corpus comparabl...

We present a new large-scale database called “CatVar” (Habash and Dorr, 2003) which contains categorial variations of English lexemes. Due to the prevalence of cross-language categorial variation in multilingual applications, our categorial-variation resource may serve as an integral part of a diverse range of natural language applications. Thus, the research reported herein overlaps heavily wi...

Natural-sounding speech synthesis requires close control over the temporal structure of the speech flow. This includes a full predictive scheme for the durational structure and in particuliar the prolongation of final syllables of lexemes as well as for the pausal structure in the utterance. In this chapter, a description of the temporal structure and the summary of the numerous factors that mo...

This paper raises and discusses three questions about the structure of Meaning-Text Theory, based on consideration of the role that paradigmatic Lexical Functions play in its model of the lexicon: Is the paradigmatic-syntagmatic distinction meaningful? Do paradigmatic LFs represent redundant semantic information (and if so, is the redundancy justified)? And finally, might definitions of lexemes...

This paper reports on a Lexicalised Tree Adjoining Grammar for Polish, extracted automatically from the Polish constituency treebank. The grammar consists of 23 570 elementary trees anchored by 11 515 lexemes. Running the grammar on the sentences from the treebank using a modified version of TuLiPA parser showed that it achieves a high accordance (almost 99%) with the treebank annotation – in t...

“Deep-syntactic” dependency structures that capture the argumentative, attributive and coordinative relations between full words of a sentence have a great potential for a number of NLPapplications. The abstraction degree of these structures is in-between the output of a syntactic dependency parser (connected trees defined over all words of a sentence and language-specific grammatical functions...