the present study aims at investigating the effect of different levels of lexical collocational density on efl learners’ reading comprehension. eighty sophomore students with different levels of proficiency studying at  zand institute of higher education in shiraz, iran were chosen from among eighty five learners based on their score distribution on a reduced toefl test constructed by education...

Lexical cohesion is a property of text, achieved through lexicalsemantic relations between words in text. Most information retrieval systems make use of lexical relations in text only to a limited extent. In this paper we empirically investigate whether the degree of lexical cohesion between the contexts of query terms' occurrences in a document is related to its relevance to the query. Experim...

We present a prototype of the Italian version of WordNet, a general computational lexical resource. Some relevant extensions are discussed to make it usable for parsing: in particular we add verbal selec-tional restrictions to make lexical discrimination eeective. Italian Word-Net has been coupled with a parser and a number of experiments have been performed to individuate the methodology with ...

This paper describes the data management in multilingual lexical databases. Since NLP systems are using lexical data, the amount of work to build them is huge. That is the reason why it is important to use rigorous powerful systems and to be able to get data for a minimal cost. As an open source project, Papillon is reusing existing lexical data and wants to make volunteers collaborate. To make...

We present a prototype of the Italian version of WordNet a general computational lexical resource Some relevant extensions are discussed to make it usable for parsing in particular we add verbal selec tional restrictions to make lexical discrimination e ective Italian Word Net has been coupled with a parser and a number of experiments have been performed to individuate the methodology with the ...

Text examples must be exploited in the acquisition of lexical structures. However, neither syntactic nor semantic features are provided by the text itself, and so acquisition must be aided by additional resources. We investigate the application of an existing resource, a set of lexical categories, as a prediction method. We present an algorithm that applies (a) top-down prediction based on lexi...

Listeners use suprasegmental auditory lexical stress information to resolve the competition words engage in during spoken-word recognition. The present study investigated whether (a) visual speech provides lexical stress information, and, more importantly, (b) whether this visual lexical stress information is used to resolve lexical competition. Dutch word pairs that differ in the lexical stres...

Lexical cohesion is a property of text, achieved through lexical-semantic relations between words in text. Most information retrieval systems make use of lexical relations in text only to a limited extent. In this paper we empirically investigate whether the degree of lexical cohesion between the contexts of query terms’ occurrences in a document is related to its relevance to the query. Lexica...