In this paper we present a semi-automatic approach for acqusition of lexico-syntactic knowledge for event extraction in two Slavic languages, namely Bulgarian and Czech. The method uses several weaklysupervised and unsupervised algorithms, based on distributional semantics. Moreover, an intervention from a language expert is envisaged on different steps in the learning procedure, which increase...

The lexical analysis of scientific terms in the works French-speaking linguists (from F. de Saussure to modern researchers) allows identifying epistemological reasons for development semantics and formation polysemy terminological units. semantic features considered determine a new classification types depending on level abstraction.

In this paper we discuss the analysis of expressions such as John’s team, John’s brother, John’s favorite movie, Mary’s favorite chair, Mary’s former mansion. Before introducing the concrete problems, we briefly describe our theoretical perspective. Our theoretical concern is the integration of formal semantics and lexical semantics, especially but not exclusively in the traditions of Montague ...

s, bibliographische Angaben. Tübingen: Niemeyer. Wotjak, Gerd (1977)Untersuchungen zur Struktur der Bedeutung: Ein Beitrag zu Gegenstand und Methode der modernen Bedeutungsforschung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der semantischen Konstituentenanalyse. 2nd edn. Berlin: Akademie. Wunderlich, Dieter (1991) How do prepositional phrases fit into compositional syntax and semantics? Linguistics 29:...

Xià ‘down’ is a hot topic in the study of directional verbs modern Chinese. Previous studies mainly focus on its syntactic property, syntax-semantics, and diachronic evolution. Few explore lexical-semantic meanings xià ‘down’, let alone taking cross-dialectal or cross-linguistic perspective. This paper discusses lexical semantics Chi...

How are lexical representations retrieved during sign production? Similar to spoken languages, lexical representation in sign language must be accessed through semantics when naming pictures. However, it remains an open issue whether lexical representations in sign language can be accessed via routes that bypass semantics when retrieval is elicited by written words. Here we address this issue b...

Aphasic patients who exhibit “asyntactic comprehension” show poor performance o n a sentence-picture matching task with semantically unconstrained sentences, such as “The cow bit the horse,” but good performance when the sentences are semantically constrained, such as “The boy threw the ball.” The assumption has been that such patients are able to interpret these latter sentences by relying sol...

We describe TINE, a new automatic evaluation metric for Machine Translation that aims at assessing segment-level adequacy. Lexical similarity and shallow-semantics are used as indicators of adequacy between machine and reference translations. The metric is based on the combination of a lexical matching component and an adequacy component. Lexical matching is performed comparing bagsof-words wit...

The Practical Lexical Function model (PLF) is a recently proposed compositional distributional semantic model which provides an elegant account of composition, striking a balance between expressiveness and robustness and performing at the state-of-the-art. In this paper, we identify an inconsistency in PLF between the objective function at training and the prediction at testing which leads to a...

The macro-target of discourse interpretation for computational purposes is the automatic detection of events in a text and their ordering in a temporal scale. Asher and Lascarides’ (2003) ideas on the semantics-pragmatics interface between the lexical and discourse level along with the logic mechanism for inferring rhetorical structure (often nonmonotonically) proposes an interesting way of ach...