We have already had occasion favourably to notice this work, and the early call for a third edition does not surprise us. The author is wise in eliminating, as well as in adding, and we congratulate him on his success in both directions. In these busy times there is obtruded on us the uncomfortable question: Is the English language too prolix ? Is stenography as feasible in composition as in pe...

We examine the viability of building large polarity lexicons semi-automatically from the web. We begin by describing a graph propagation framework inspired by previous work on constructing polarity lexicons from lexical graphs (Kim and Hovy, 2004; Hu and Liu, 2004; Esuli and Sabastiani, 2009; BlairGoldensohn et al., 2008; Rao and Ravichandran, 2009). We then apply this technique to build an Eng...

Sound symbolism– non-arbitrary correspondences between the sound of a word and its meaning– exists cross-linguistically and facilitates listeners’ ability to infer the meaning of foreign words. However, the specificity of these mappings remains unclear. The present study investigated whether sound symbolic properties correspond only to a specific meaning domain or to other semantic dimensions a...

For fine-grained sentiment analysis, we need to go beyond zero-one polarity and find a way to compare adjectives (synonyms) that share the same sense. Choice of a word from a set of synonyms, provides a way to select the exact polarityintensity. For example, choosing to describe a person as benevolent rather than kind1 changes the intensity of the expression. In this paper, we present a sense b...

This paper addresses a problem in the current encoding bilingual dictionary models, and argues for the necessity of having a lexicogrammatical perspective in such dictionaries, by discussing a pair of equivalents in English and in Japanese. Because existing encoding dictionaries base their models on decoding dictionaries, they force users to start from a fixed lexical item. This paper demonstra...

In this paper I examine two types of nominalizations related to color adjectives in Greek, a suffixed one and a neutral one, which I will compare to their English and Dutch (and German) counterparts. I show that the two differ in that suffixed nominalizations denote stage level properties, while neuter nominalizations denote individual level properties. This difference is due to the fact that s...

This article presents the first participation of the CINDI group in the Multiple Language Question Answering Cross Language Evaluation Forum (QA@CLEF). We participated in a track using French as the source language and English as the target language. CINDI_QA first uses an online translation tool to convert the French input question into an English sentence. Second, a Natural Language Parser ex...

Several preprocessing steps are necessary in various problems of automatic Natural Language Processing. One major step is named-entity detection, which is relatively simple in English, because such entities start with an uppercase character. For Indian scripts like Bangla, no such indicator exists and the problem of identification is more complex, especially for human names, which may be common...

Many English adjectives form the comparative in two ways, so that, for instance, prouder occurs alongside more proud. The availability of several forms raises the general questions of when and why speakers choose one variant over the other. The aim of this article is to identify factors of language structure and language use that underlie the comparative alternation and to determine their relat...

The article deals with the study of linguo-stylistic means comic category representation at lexico-semantic level. Modern English prose is characterized by a specific modality, which characteristic feature author’s individual style. leading level, that contribute to realization effect in belles-letters texts, have been analyzed. material research English-language works small forms most prominen...