In this paper, we introduce a system, Sentence Planning Using Description, which generates collocations within the paradigm of sentence planning. SPUD simultaneously constructs the semantics and syntax of a sentence using a Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (LTAG). This approach captures naturally and elegantly the interaction between pragmatic and syntactic constraints on descriptions in a se...

We present a proposal for the structuring of collocation knowledge 1 in the lexicon of a multilingual generation system and show to what extent it can be used in the process of lexical selection. This proposal is part of Polygloss, a new research project on multilingual generation, and it has been inspired by work carried out in the S EMSYN project (see e.g. [I~(~SNEtt 198812). The descriptive ...

Strong indications of perspective can often come from collocations of arbitrary length; for example, someone writing get the government out of my X is typically expressing a conservative rather than progressive viewpoint. However, going beyond unigram or bigram features in perspective classification gives rise to problems of data sparsity. We address this problem using nonparametric Bayesian mo...

In this article, we present a new algorithm for building domain specific lexical hierarchies from texts. The basic elements of such a hierarchy are the normalized terms – mono and multi-word terms – extracted from a large corpus by a terminological extractor. The algorithm relies on collocations for representing the meaning of these terms, finding hierarchical relations between them and finally...

The paper discusses a method for resolving referential ambiguity related with contextual ellipsis in human-machine dialogue. Necessary conditions for reconstructing elliptical phrases of a special kind—short answers or clarifications— are formulated. The first (most reliable) condition characterizes the lexical combinability; it is tested using a dictionary of collocations. The second one uses ...

The aim of this article is to assess the potential use of a mega newspaper corpus, the Media24 archive, in the absence of large balanced and representative corpora, for the compilation of major general dictionaries for Afrikaans. Firstly, an evaluation of Media24 against the lemmalists of both a major single-volume and a multi-volume monolingual dictionary for Afrikaans is undertaken to determi...

In this paper, we describe the empirical evaluation of statistical association measures for the extraction of lexical collocations from text corpora. We argue that the results of an evaluation experiment cannot easily be generalized to a different setting. Consequently, such experiments have to be carried out under conditions that are as similar as possible to the intended use of the measures. ...

This paper compares several methods (MI, T-score, Dice) for the extraction of collocations and presents a new method called Gravity Counts. The respective methods are evaluated and compared, measuring the combinability and collocability for each pair of words within the moving span of three words in the corpus of “The Times” newspaper for the year 1995. The collocability of words is the basis f...

Hindi-Punjabi being closely related language pair (Goyal V. and Lehal G.S., 2008) , Hybrid Machine Translation approach has been used for developing Hindi to Punjabi Machine Translation System. Non-availability of lexical resources, spelling variations in the source language text, source text ambiguous words, named entity recognition and collocations are the major challenges faced while develop...

Abstract The study deals with the lexical meaning of lexemes female teacher, teacher (male and a generic lexeme), which might be in Slovak influenced by context discourse as well attitudes gender stereotypes interlocutors. In pragmatic research, author focuses on semantic indeterminacy an implicit component determined socialization Analysis , their collocations adjectives typical crazy burned o...