In this paper, we present an unsupervised approach to automatically learn lexico-syntactic patterns encoding meronymy relations from texts. Our major contribution lies in alleviating the challenge of disambiguating polysemous patterns that encode meronymy only in some contexts. We rely on the linking theory to posit that semantic features of the Part and Whole instances participating in a meron...

INTRODUCTION Formal thought disorder is a hallmark feature of schizophrenia in which disorganized thoughts manifest as disordered speech. A dysfunctional semantic system and a disruption in executive functioning have been proposed as possible mechanisms for formal thought disorder and verbal fluency impairment. Traditional rating scales and neuropsychological test scores might not be sensitive ...

the purpose of the present paper is to investigate semantic deviation of the holy quran in amal donqol's poetry. deviation is one of the techniques of defamiliarization, and was first introduced by the russian formalists in 1917. constructivist attitude toward literary texts and emphasis on the aesthetic aspects of the literary works led formalists to consider literary language as the main...

We re-investigate the rationale for and the effectiveness of adopting the notions of depth and density in WordNet-based semantic similarity measures. We show that the intuition for including these notions in WordNet-based similarity measures does not always stand up to empirical examination. In particular, the traditional definitions of depth and density as ordinal integer values in the hierarc...