We conceptualize objects based on sensorimotor information gleaned from real-world experience. To what extent is conceptual information structured according to higher-level linguistic features? We investigate whether classifiers, a grammatical category, shape the conceptual representations of objects. In three experiments native Mandarin speakers (a classifier language) and native Dutch speaker...

Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) has proved to be a valuable tool for performing automatic analysis of natural language texts. Currently however, most systems rely on a large training set, which is manually annotated, an effort that needs to be repeated whenever different languages or a different set of semantic roles is used in a certain application. A possible solution for this problem is semi-su...

We present a computational analysis of three language varieties: native, advanced non-native, and translation. Our goal is to investigate the similarities and differences between non-native language productions and translations, contrasting both with native language. Using a collection of computational methods we establish three main results: (1) the three types of texts are easily distinguisha...

In this paper, the theoretical consideration which constitutes the basics of the project NEWAP (A New Approach by simultaneously learning of languages) is presented. The aim of the project is to facilitate to learn Finnish, Hungarian and Turkish at the same time by comparative approach and to strengthen a dialog among different countries and cultures through a new method. It is claimed that in ...

Topic detection is concerned with the unsupervised clustering of news stories over time. The TNO topic detection system is based on a language modeling approach. For the grouping of stories we combined a simple single pass method to establish an initial clustering and a reallocation method to stabilize the clusters within a certain allowed deferral period. The similarity of an incoming story to...

the category of verbal participation is one of the subjects being studied by the linguists, esp. in semantics. in this vesearch, it has been tried to investigate the old approaches toward this phenomenon in the arabic language and philology. in modem semantics it is called as polysemy. here the polysemy and its technical terms has been scientifically defined. the similarities and differences ha...

Teaching a language subject in school is often referred to as being different and unique compared teaching non-language subject. However, the few existing studies examining this claim have mainly investigated viewpoints of teachers who only teach one language, thus failing achieve comparison based on teachers’ actual lived experiences two subjects. The present study was designed address gap by ...

The aim of this work is to exploit the acoustic-phonetic similarities between several languages. In recent work cross{ language HMM-based phoneme models have been used only for bootstrapping the language{dependent models and the multi{lingual approach has been investigated only on very small speech corpora. In this paper, we introduce a statistical distance measure to determine the similarities...