The applications described here follow up the works performed in the recent last years by the Data Structures and Computational Linguistics Group at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University. These works have been developed about computational Linguistics and, as one of their results, some tools for morphologic identification and generation have been released. This work presents the use of those to...

As a promising tool for dissecting the genetic basis of common diseases, expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) study has attracted increasing research interest. The traditional eQTL methods focus on testing the associations between individual single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and gene expression traits. A major drawback of this approach is that it cannot model the joint effect of a set...

This study explores the ability to identify the recorded voice as one’s own, in three groups of children: one group of children with phonological impairment (PI) and two groups of children with typical speech and language development; 4-5 year-olds and 7-8 year-olds. High average performance rates in all three groups suggest that these children indeed recognize their recorded voice as their own...

Many puns create humor through the relationship between a pun and its phonologically similar target. For example, in “Don’t take geologists for granite” the word “granite” is a pun with the target “granted”. The recovery of the target in the mind of the listener is essential to the success of the pun. This work introduces a new model for automatic target recovery and provides the first empirica...

Adults recognise words faster given prior exposure to phonologically or semantically related words compared to unrelated words, suggesting that words are organised in the adult lexicon based on their phonological and semantic properties and that word recognition implicates not just the heard word, but also related words. The organisation of words in the infant lexicon, however, remains unexplor...

Introduction Recent years have witnessed an upsurge of interest in metonymy. From cognitive to computational linguistics, researchers have finally realized that metonymy is ubiquitous in everyday language and that it constitutes an important focus of research. In cognitive linguistics, this has given rise to detailed studies of metonymy as a cognitive phenomenon (Kövecses and Radden, 1998; Peir...

The study aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis of corpusrelated studies in linguistics between 2000 and 2015. Results show that the output of corpus-related publications have significantly increased in the past 15 years. In addition, traditional scientific powers such as the United States play leading roles in the area, while developing countries such as China also exert their impact in the ...