This paper presents a semi-automatic method for identifying terms that evoke semantic frames (Fillmore, 1982). The method is tested as a means of identifying lexical units that can be added to existing frames or to new, related frames, using a large corpus on the environment. It is hypothesized that a method based on distributional semantics, which exploits the assumption that words that appear...

We present a framework for learning a pronunciation lexicon for an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system from multiple utterances of the same training words, where the lexical identities of the words are unknown. Instead of only trying to learn pronunciations for known words we go one step further and try to learn both spelling and pronunciation in a joint optimization. Decoding based on li...

This paper discusses the qualitative comparative evaluation performed on the results of two machine translation systems with different approaches to the processing of multi-word units. It proposes a solution for overcoming the difficulties multi-word units present to machine translation by adopting a methodology that combines the lexicon grammar approach with OpenLogos ontology and semantico-sy...

The paper presents an approach to building a very large emotive lexicon for Polish based on plWordNet. An expanded annotation model is discussed, in which lexical units (word senses) are annotated with basic emotions, fundamental human values and sentiment polarisation. The annotation process is performed manually in the 2+1 scheme by pairs of linguists and psychologies. Guidelines referring to...

EDBL (Euskararen Datu-Base Lexikala) is a general-purpose lexical database used in Basque text-processing tasks. It is a large repository of lexical knowledge (currently around 80,000 entries) that acts as basis and support in a number of different NLP tasks, thus providing lexical information for several language tools: morphological analysis, spell checking and correction, lemmatization and t...

1 Introduction The balance between storage and computation of complex words is a major point of departure both for theories of lexical representation (e. The atoms of lexical memory that are implicated in lexical processing experiments—be they whole words, roots and affixes, or some combination thereof—must ultimately coincide with the units of morphological theory if the latter are to be theor...

A connectionist architecture comprised of cell assemblies was developed and applied to the problem of speech perception at the phonemic and lexical levels. The problem addressed involved a disagreement amongst theorists over the possible sources of lexical priming effects. Speech was encoded in the model as the temporal activity of phoneme units that are connected to higher-level word assemblie...