Many projects are conducted to develop multilingual lexical databases. Some of these projects use an interlingual approach (KBMT-89, EDR, ...), where others choose a bilingual approach (Multilex, ...). This paper presents an interlingual approach based on acceptions (word-senses) aiming at the development of a multilingual lexical database management system: NADIA. With this approach, the inter...

the most important and practical phase of analyzing the linguistic errors of second language learners is to find the solutions to decrease these errors. to that end, the present study examined translation strategy to decrease the number of grammatical and lexical errors of chinese language learners learning persian. twelve chinese language learners were asked to write a text in two stages. firs...

Reading is widely accepted as an effective way for EST learners to obtain information and knowledge, but most EST learners in China find that their reading competence is not satisfactory although they have a large size of EST vocabulary and study English grammar well. So how to improve EST learner’s reading competence remains a problem urgent to settle for EST teachers and researchers. Lexical ...

paper, we describe an automated system, which is designed to enhance the discovery of lexical relations in the Chinese language and construct a richly structured network labelled with lexical relations. Lexical relations are very important for NLP. Most previous work to get them is done by hand. In this paper, we describe an automated strategy which exploits a machine readable dictionary (MRD) ...

The paper presents a prototype lexicalist Machine Translation system (based on the so-called ‘Shake-and-Bake’ approach of Whitelock (1992)) consisting of an analysis component, a dynamic bilingual lexicon, and a generation component, and shows how it is applied to a range of MT problems. Multi-Lexeme translations are handled through bi-lexical rules which map bilingual lexical signs into new bi...

In this paper, we aim at automatically identifying Elaboration. This relation is particularly difficult to spot since it does not have prototypical markers. Our approach focuses on an ambiguous syntactic pattern, the gerund clause, combined with lexical cues. This approach allows us to detect few but accurate cases of inner sentence Elaborations in our corpus, validating the fact that lexical c...

This work investigates and improves a bootstrapping approach which permits to extend high quality lexical resources with the help of large corpora. The emphasis lies on the extraction of lexical-semantic information and word meaning, which are fundamental components for advanced applications such as semantic parsing, information retrieval or summarizing textual information. ... In the last chap...

Due to the data sparseness problem, the lexical information from a treebank for a lexicalized parser could be insufficient. This paper proposes an approach to learn head-modifier pairs from a raw corpus, and to integrate them into a lexicalized dependency parser to parse a Chinese Treebank. Experimental results show that this approach not only enlarged the coverage of bi-lexical dependency, but...