In this paper I present a number of studies of individual lexical items demonstrating the incredible variety of idiosyncratic properties that occur in the lexicon of English. While many current theories ignore this level of detail, I argue that a complete on-line lexicon suitable for a variety of linguistic and computational uses must include much more information than is available in any exist...

We present LEAR (Lexical Entailment Attract-Repel), a novel post-processing method that transforms any input word vector space to emphasise the asymmetric relation of lexical entailment (LE), also known as the IS-A or hyponymy-hypernymy relation. By injecting external linguistic constraints (e.g., WordNet links) into the initial vector space, the LE specialisation procedure brings true hyponymy...

Two experiments examine the links between neural patterns in EEG (e.g., N400s, P600s) and their corresponding cognitive processes (e.g., lexical access, discourse integration) by varying the lexical and syntactic contexts of co-referential expressions. Experiment 1 examined coreferring expressions when they occurred within the same clause as their antecedents (John/Bill warmly dressed John). Ex...

In most natural language processing systems there is no representation of the semantic knowledge of lexical units, but just subcategorization frames, selection restrictions and links to other paradigmatically-related lexical units. Some NLP systems, e.g. machine translation or dialogue-based systems, attempt to “understand” the input text by translating it into some kind of formal language-inde...

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...

This paper addresses the problem of automatic acquisition of lexical knowledge for rapid construction of MT engines multilingual applications. We describe new techniques for large-scale construction of a Chinese-English verb lexicon and we evaluate the coverage and eeectiveness of the resulting lexicon for a structured MT approach that is embedded in a cross-language information retrieval syste...

This paper addresses the problem of automatic acquisition of lexical knowledge for rapid construction of MT engines in multilingual applications. We describe new techniques for large-scale construction of a Chinese-English verb lexicon and we evaluate the coverage and eeectiveness of the resulting lexicon. Leveraging oo an existing Chinese conceptual database called HowNet and a large, semantic...

This paper argues that it is impossible to separate lexical and encyclopedic knowledge and describes an attempt to build a large lexical database that contains the range of information needed to make a parser or a text generation system interpret and use words and phrases correctly. 1 I n t r o d u c t i o n Any natural language processing system needs both knowledge about words and knowledge a...

This paper describes new functionalities implemented in a terminological database (TDB) in order to allow efficient editing of and access to multilingual data. The functionalities are original in the sense that they allow users of the database to retrieve the equivalents not only of headwords, but also of semantically related terms (especially collocations) that appear within the articles. The ...