Bilingual participants offer a unique opportunity to study how concepts and their relations are stored in the brain. We focus on this in the context of the spoken production of referring expressions. Previous work on reference in interaction showed that speakers adapt their descriptions to those produced earlier in the interaction. For example, when participants hear a description that contains...

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Polysemous words acquire different senses and meanings from their contexts. Representing words in vector space as a function of their contexts captures some semantic and syntactic features for words and introduces new useful relations between them. In this paper, we exploit different vectorized representations for words to solve the problem of Cross Lingual Lexical Substitution. We compare our ...

the term ‘spam’ addresses unsolicited emails sent in bulk; therefore, the term‘financial fraud spam’ refers to unwanted bulk emails in which different tricks and techniques areemployed to swindle money from the recipients. estimates show that more than 80% of worldwideemail traffic in 2011 was spam. it should be noted that while the number of daily spam emails in2002 was 2.4 billion, this numbe...

this paper reports results from a corpus-based study that explored the frequency of words in the abstracts of applied linguistics journal articles. the abstracts of major articles in leading applied linguists journals, published since 2005 up to november 2001 were analyzed using software modules from the compleat lexical tutor. the output includes a list of the most frequent content words, list...

formulaic sequence (fs) is a general term often used to refer to various types of recurrent clusters. one particular type of fss common in different registers is lexical bundles (lbs). this study investigated whether lbs are stored and processed as a whole in the mind of language users and whether their functional discourse type has any effect on their processing. to serve these objectives, thr...

the importance and howness of language learning/ acquisition has been a great concern for decades. there are many factors that play important roles in this regard. this research compared the performance of native persian and english elementary students to see if there is any significant difference between the two groups and which type of collocation they performed better within the groups. for ...

In this paper, we present a study of tonal patterns of Accentual Phrases (APs) in spontaneous speech produced by ten Second Language (L2) speakers of Norwegian. The speakers are multilingual, and their dominant language is either Lingala or Swahili. Analyses of 1000 APs (100 per speaker) show that all the speakers produce the expected lexical pitch accent in a significant majority of the cases....

In this paper we describe the SemEval2010 Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution task, where given an English target word in context, participating systems had to find an alternative substitute word or phrase in Spanish. The task is based on the English Lexical Substitution task run at SemEval-2007. In this paper we provide background and motivation for the task, we describe the data annotation pro...