perhaps the most widely used electronic dictionary of English and serves as the lexicon for a rarity of different NLP applications including Information Retrieval (IR), Word Sense Disambignation (WSD), and M~hine Transla~ tion (MT). Despite WordNet's large coverage, which comprises some 100,000 concepts lexi-cMi~.ed by approySmately 120,000 word forms (strings) and is comparable to that of a co...

Previous HPSG accounts of extraction blur the distinction between valents and adjuncts by allowing verbs to lexically control the modifiers that combine with their phrasal projections. However, assuming that adjuncts are valents runs into various difficulties. This paper argues that the distinction between complements and adjuncts can be maintained, and that certain semantic phenomena that chal...

The present paper investigates the word order alternation of English transitive phrasal verbs such as, e.g., to pick up the book versus to pick the book up. It builds on traditional monofactorial analyses, but argues that previously used methods of analysis are grossly inadequate to describe, explain and predict the word order choice by native speakers. A hypothesis integrating virtually all re...

In this paper we investigate the task of automatically identifying the correct argument structure for a set of verbs. We exploit the distributions of some selected features from the local context of a verb. These distributions were extracted from a 23M word WSJ corpus based on partof-speech tags and phrasal chunks alone. This annotation was minimal as compared to previous work on this task whic...

In both child and adult Cantonese, code-mixing is used productively. We focus on the insertion of English verbs into Cantonese utterances. Data from nine simultaneous bilingual children in the Hong Kong Bilingual Child Language Corpus are analyzed. Case studies show that the children’s rates of mixing closely match the rate of mixing in the parental input, and that different input conditions in...

The present study examined whether emotionally congruent facial muscular activation - a somatic index of emotional language embodiment can be elicited by reading subject-verb sentences composed of action verbs, that refer directly to facial expressions (e.g., Mario smiles), but also by reading more abstract state verbs, which provide more direct access to the emotions felt by the agent (e.g., M...

This study aimed to investigate the realizations of verbs’ syntactic and semantic features inmoves of applied linguistics research article introductions published in international andIranian local journals. To this end, a data of 30 research article introductions (15 published inIranian local journals and 15 in high impact international journals) was selected. The researcharticle introductions ...