Text adaptation is a normal activity of teachers to facilitate reading comprehension of specific contents; the general approaches for it are Text Simplification and Text Elaboration (TE). TE aims at clarifying, explaining information and making connections explicit in texts. In this paper, we present a new approach for TE: an automatic question categorization system which assigns wh-question la...

Although statistical learning (SL) is widely assumed to play a key role in language, few empirical studies aim to directly and systematically link variation across SL and language. In this study, we build on prior work linking differences in nonadjacent SL to on-line language, by examining individualdifferences in adjacent SL. Experiment 1 documents the trajectory of adjacency learning and esta...

We describe here a very first attempt to connect two valency lexicons: Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs (PDEV) and VerbaLex. Both lexicons contain verbs together with their syntactic structure (arguments of the verbal predicate) and semantic restrictions (semantic types typical for a given verb argument). The lexicons are similar in overall but differ in details since their formalisms are ta...

In today’s era of information explosion, extracting entities and their relations in largescale, unstructured collections of text to better represent knowledge has emerged as a daunting challenge in biomedical text mining. To respond to the demand to automatically extract scientific knowledge with higher precision, the public knowledge discovery tool PKDE4J (Song et al., 2015) was proposed as a ...

This paper presents the fully automatic linking of two valency lexicons of Czech verbs: VALLEX and PDT-VALLEX. Despite the same theoretical background adopted by these lexicons and the same linguistic phenomena they focus on, the fully automatic mapping of these resouces is not straightforward. We demonstrate that converting these lexicons into a common format represents a relatively easy part ...

In this paper, alternation based model of the valency lexicon of Czech verbs, VALLEX, is described. Two types of alternations (changes in valency frames of verbs) are distinguished on the basis of used linguistic means: (i) grammaticalized alternations and (ii) lexicalized alternations. Both grammaticalized and lexicalized alternations are either conversive, or non-conversive. While grammatical...

Text adaptation is a normal activity of teachers to facilitate reading comprehension of specific contents; the general approaches for it are Text Simplification and Text Elaboration (TE). TE aims at clarifying, explaining information and making connections explicit in texts. In this paper, we present a new approach for TE: an automatic question categorization system which assigns wh-question la...

In this paper, we propose a method of the representation of Czech diatheses in the valency lexicon of Czech verbs, VALLEX. Under the term diatheses, specific relations between uses of the same verb lexeme are considered here. These relations are associated with changes in valency frames of verbs which stem from the changes in the linking of situational participants, valency complementations and...

one of the main dichotomies in syntactic analyses deals with the distinction between lexical and functional categories. functional categories gain in stature as the generative grammar moves ahead. they come into play in explaining the derivation stages of phrases and sentences. the present study critically evaluates different approaches to the role and function of one of these functional catego...