1 Introduction 1.1 Two empirical perspectives in the study of synonymy and antonymy The domain of linguistics that has arguably been studied most from a corpus-linguistic perspective is lexical, or even lexicographical, semantics. Already the early work of pioneers such as Firth and Sinclair has paved the way for the study of lexical items, their distribution, and what their distribution reveal...

This paper describes work in progress to use clustering to create a lexicon of words that engage in the lexico-semantic relationship known as grading. While other resources like thesauri and taxonomies exist detailing relationships such as synonymy, antonymy, and hyponymy, we do not know of any thorough resource for grading. This work focuses on identifying the words that may participate in thi...

abstract the word science has gone through semantic change in different historical periods and in relation to the cultural and social circumstances of the time and thus has been used in various senses. a semantic study of word in the pre- and post-islamic eras will reveal that the word has been used in different and even opposite senses. this means that, in the age of ignorance (pre-islamic era...

The word vectors learned by continuous space language models are known to have the property that the vectors of synonymous words have cosine similarities close to one. To date, however, the relation of antonymy has not been captured in these models. In this paper, we demonstrate that by incorporating prior information from a thesaurus as an extra term in the language model objective function, t...

1. Introduction Antonymy is a common lexical relation that is intuitively clear (if not always easy to define) for humans, but challenging for machines. In Natural Language Processing, antonymy detection has applications in tasks of understanding language, such as paraphrase detection, question answering, and textual inference. For that reason, WordNet (Fellbaum, 2005) includes some antonymy an...

theories of semantic fields are the most valuable topics of semantics in linguistic researches. this concept refers to the set of words which are the subset of a general meaning connected through special relations. in fact, semantics is the summary of words’ relations with each other. therefore, this study aims to investigate semantic fields in nahj al-fasaha, to explain relations among words i...

Several works in computational linguistics try to study the relationships among dictionary entries. These works consider the dictionary as a graph where words are represented by vertices and relationships between two words by an arrow between the corresponding vertices. Several kinds of relationships exist between two words such as synonymy, antonymy, hyperonymy, hyponymy ... We define the prox...

Abstract The idea that discourse relations are interpreted both by explicit content and shared knowledge between producer interpreter is pervasive in linguistic studies. How much weight should be ascribed this process to the lexical semantics of arguments is, however, uncertain. We propose a computational approach analyze contrast concession PDTB corpus. Our work sheds light on question how con...