Participants' eye movements were tracked when reading sentences in which target word predictability was manipulated to being unpredictable from the preceding context, predictable from the sentence preceding the one in which the target word was embedded, or predictable from the adjective directly preceding the target word. Results show that there was no difference in skipping rates between the 2...

NLP system developers and corpus lexicographers would both benefit from a tool for finding and organizing the distinctive patterns of use of words in texts. Such a tool would be an asset for both language research and lexicon development, particularly for lexicons for Machine Translation (MT). We have developed the WASPBENCH, a tool that (1) presents a "word sketch", a summary of the corpus evi...

This study aims at finding the types of word-formation processes in online advertisements and analyzing how those are used. The data source was obtained from official shampoo advertising websites YouTube during 2020. It used a descriptive qualitative method by applying theory word ordering proposed several linguistic experts namely O'Grady Guzman (1996), Hatch Brown (1995). From analysis conduc...

The paper describes automatic definition finding implemented within the leading corpus query and management tool, Sketch Engine. The implementation exploits complex pattern-matching queries in the corpus query language (CQL) and the indexing mechanism of word sketches for finding and storing definition candidates throughout the corpus. The approach is evaluated for Czech and English corpora, sh...

Elena BORISSOVA Institut Russkogo yazyka imP~shkina Moscow Abstract This paper presents a computer-tool teaching system supplied by a language processor. Its aim is to correct mistakes in texts written by foreign students learning Russian as a second language. Since a text may include grammar mistakes, the system cannot use morphological analysis to fool extent. So one must compile a programm c...