This paper presents an automatically generated Intermediate Logic Form of WordNet’s glosses. Our proposed logic form includes neo-Davidsonian reification in a simple and flat syntax close to natural language. We offer a comparison with other semantic representations such as those provided by Hobbs and Extended WordNet. Our Intermediate Logic Forms provide a representation suitable to perform se...

Abstract Despite Church prohibitions, almost twenty medieval Bibles in Spanish survive. The Old Testament versions derived many cases from translations Hebrew made by Jews. These were characterized a unique rabbinical “calque-language” that would be preserved Sephardim for centuries after the Expulsion 1492; but Inquisition destroyed Jewish copies. This article studies new witness, oldest known...

This study examines the efficacy of a multimodal online bilingual dictionary based on cognitive linguistics in order to explore the advantages and limitations of explicit multimodal L2 vocabulary learning. Previous studies have examined the efficacy of the verbal and visual representation of words while reading L2 texts, concluding that it facilitates incidental word retention. This study explo...

There has been no consensus as to what constitutes a set of base concepts in the mental landscape. With the aim of exploring base concepts in Chinese, this paper proposes that frequently-occurring words in the glosses of a lexical resource such as the Chinese Wordnet can be seen as a candidate set of base concepts because the glosses use basic words. The present study identified 130 base concep...

Evaluating a WSD task is a challenge at least as difficult as developing the task itself. Manually constructing a corpus of ambiguous sentences is a difficult and tedious task. Such a corpus is even more complex to produce if in each sentence, each ambiguous word is associated with its correct meaning. In addition to finding/imagining the sentence, it is necessary to have a word sense lexicon t...

Luke Plonsky, University College London Nicole Ziegler, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa The relationship between computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and second language acquisition (SLA) has been studied both extensively, covering numerous subdomains, and intensively, resulting in hundreds of primary studies. It is therefore no surprise that CALL researchers, as in other areas of applied ...

L2 vocabulary acquisition is of much importance to learners and has long been the hot topic in field applied linguistics. Stimulated by Technical Feature Analysis (TFA) Involvement Load Hypothesis (ILH) particular, a large body research attempted find relative efficacy various tasks facilitating acquisition. However, there paucity regarding effectiveness ILH TFA accounting for task type effects...

This paper describes on-going work on extending the annotation of the Swedish Sign Language Corpus (SSLC) with a level of syntactic structure. The basic annotation of SSLC in ELAN consists of six tiers: four for sign glosses (two tiers for each signer; one for each of a signer’s hands), and two for written Swedish translations (one for each signer). In an additional step by Östling et al. (2015...

Political texts on the Web, documenting laws and policies and the process leading to them, are of key importance to government, industry, and every individual citizen. Yet access to such texts is difficult due to the ever increasing volume and complexity of the content, prompting the need for indexing or annotating them with a common controlled vocabulary or ontology. In this paper, we investig...