The article is devoted to analysis of lexico-morphological devices used in the process of creation of stereotyped personage image in adventure novels. Such personages are clearly marked by the author’s axiological attitude. Both the characteristics and the means of their expression can be constantly used by different authors; thus we deal with the phenomenon of personage stereotype. The choice ...

We describe a formal framework for interpretation of words and compounds in a discourse context which integrates a symbolic lexicon/grammar, word-sense probabilities , and a pragmatic component. The approach is motivated by the need to handle productive word use. In this paper, we concentrate on compound nominals. We discuss the inadequacies of approaches which consider compound interpretation ...

Few approaches to extract word translations from non-parallel texts have been proposed so far. Researchers have not been encouraged to work on this topic because extracting information from non-parallel corpora is a difficult task producing poor results. Whereas for parallel texts, word translation extraction can reach about 99%, the accuracy for non-parallel texts has been around 72% up to now...

A novel method for unsupervised acquisition of knowledge for taxonomies of concepts from raw Wikipedia text is presented. We assume that the concepts classified under the same node in a taxonomy are described in a comparable way in Wikipedia. The concepts in 6 taxonomies extracted from WordNet are mapped onto Wikipedia pages and the lexico-syntactic patterns describing semantic structures expre...

Abstract Local coherence effects arise when the human sentence processor is temporarily misled by a locally grammatical but globally ungrammatical analysis (The coach smiled at player tossed frisbee opposing team). It has been suggested that such occur either because processing occurs in bottom-up, self-organized manner rather than under constant supervision, or local can disrupt due to readers...

FrameNet is a lexico-semantic dataset that embodies the theory of frame semantics. Like other semantic databases, FrameNet is incomplete. We augment it via the paraphrase database, PPDB, and gain a threefold increase in coverage at 65% precision.

We combine corpus methodology with experimental methods to gain insights into the nature of antonymy as a lexico-semantic relations and the degree of entrenchment and routinization of antonymic word-pairs in memory.

In this paper, we present findings from a human judgement task we conducted on the effectiveness of syntax filtering in a word completion task. Human participants were asked to review a series of incomplete sentences and identify which words from accompanying lists extend the expressions in a grammatically appropriate way. The accompanying word lists were generated by two word completion system...