In this paper, we present the Web interface to UBY, a large-scale lexical resource based on the Lexical Markup Framework (LMF). UBY contains interoperable versions of nine resources in two languages. The interface allows to conveniently examine and navigate the encoded information in UBY across resource boundaries. Its main contributions are twofold: 1) The visual view allows to examine the sen...

We present a method for incorporating arbitrary context-informed word attributes into statistical machine translation by clustering attribute-quali ed source words, and smoothing their word translation probabilities using binary decision trees. We describe two ways in which the decision trees are used in machine translation: by using the attribute-quali ed source word clusters directly, or by u...

Studies in vision have demonstrated that the visual system can induce the perception of illusory contours. In this study we document a similar phenomenon in the auditory mode: Japanese speakers report perceiving vowels that are absent in the acoustic signal. Such an illusion is due to the fact that in Japanese, succession of consonants are not allowed. Hence the linguistic system inserts an ill...

The most perspicuous phenomenon that demonstrates the head-final property of Japanese is the sentence-final clusters of auxiliary verbs such as (s)ase and conjunctive particles nagara. Although they are related to the hierarchical clause structure that has been discussed in the literature of Japanese linguistics, the hierarchical complexities have also been one of the major causes of the failur...

This article examines the influence of phonetic and phonological factors and lexical frequency on accuracy and error types in the production of non-native phonotactics. In Experiment 1, English speakers were presented with non-native word-initial consonant clusters that were varied on several phonetic dimensions. Results showed that speakers are not equally accurate on the production of differe...

Listeners show a reliable bias towards interpreting speech sounds in a way that conforms to linguistic restrictions (phonotactic constraints) on the permissible patterning of speech sounds in a language. This perceptual bias may enforce and strengthen the systematicity that is the hallmark of phonological representation. Using Granger causality analysis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-const...

This work concerns automatic topic segmentation of email conversations. We present a corpus of email threads manually annotated with topics, and evaluate annotator reliability. To our knowledge, this is the first such email corpus. We show how the existing topic segmentation models (i.e., Lexical Chain Segmenter (LCSeg) and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)) which are solely based on lexical in...

An automated method for clustering terms/concepts from a set of documents on the same topic was developed for the purpose of multidocument summarization. The clustering method makes use of a combination of lexical overlap between multiword terms, syntactic constraints and semantic consideration based on a manually constructed taxonomy to generate hierarchically organized clusters of terms. This...

The question of lexical submorphemics has long been controversial in English lexical studies and in general (Genette 1976, Jakobson 1980, Toussaint 1983). The linguistic sign is traditionally considered as “arbitrary”: the phonological form is not iconic and does not reflect the physical properties of the object or event to which the word refers; for lack of motivation there are as many words a...