This article concerns the general functional features of an adjective in modern English, and in particular multistate lexical item “just”, which carries different meanings in different variants of combinatorics. The authors analyze the combinations used with the adjectival lexeme item “just” and reveal the categories that determine the degree of semantic content of each given statement. The nee...

s of Chapters in the Book I. Fundamental Aspects I.1. The Lexical Representation of Knowledge: A multi-disciplinary perspective Editors This an original overview paper by the editors that establish the frame of reference for research on NLP using ontology and lexical resources. In essence, we adopt a mental lexicon approach where knowledge is lexically represented and accessed. Hence lexical re...

The purpose of the study was to activate the passive lexical knowledge through noticing and to investigate the effect of sentence writing as the post task of noticing activity on strengthening the effect of noticing. Forty-two Iranian female adult upper-intermediate English students of a state university in 2 homogenous groups participated in noticing the lexical items whose production were not...

The purpose of this paper is to present the strategy and methodology followed at the Ixa NLP Group of the University of The Basque Country in laying the lexical foundations for language processing. Monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, text corpora, and linguists’ knowledge have been the main information sources from which lexical knowledge currently present in our NLP system has been acquire...

KBMSs for natural language knowledge will be fundamental components of knowledgeable environments where non-computer professionals can use various kinds of support tools for document preparation or translation. However, basic models for such KBMSs have not been established yet. Thus, we propose a model for an LKB focusing on dictionary knowledge such as that obtained from machine-readable dicti...

One reason why the lexical capabilities of NLP systems have remained weak is because of the labour intensive nature of encoding lexical entries for the lexicon. It has been estimated that the average time needed to construct manually a lexical entry for a Machine Translation system is about 30 minutes [Neff et al. 93]. The automatic acquisition of lexical knowledge is the main field of the rese...