The virtues of viewing the lexicon as an inheritance network are its succinctness and its tendency to highlight significant clusters of linguistic properties. From its succinctness follow two practical advantages, namely its ease of maintenance and modification. In this paper we present a feature-based foundation for lexical inheritance. We shall argue that the feature-based foundation is both ...

The automatic discovery and clustering of morphologically related words is an important problem with several practical applications. This paper describes the evaluation of word clusters carried out through crowd-sourcing techniques for the Maltese language. The hybrid (Semitic-Romance) nature of Maltese morphology, together with the fact that no large-scale lexical resources are available for M...

the present paper aims to examine the role of frequency lexicon in assessing lexical proficiency of persian learners. addressing the frequency distribution pattern of persian words, the research which is conducted in corpus-based method studies the relationship between words and lexical proficiency as well as derives the frequency lexicon from persian corpus. to do so, formal and colloquial per...

We present a novel framework for the discovery and representation of general semantic relationships that hold between lexical items. We propose that each such relationship can be identified with a cluster of patterns that captures this relationship. We give a fully unsupervised algorithm for pattern cluster discovery, which searches, clusters and merges highfrequency words-based patterns around...

We present data from an EPG experiment on German fricative assimilation. It has been claimed that fricative sequences other than sibilant clusters do not assimilate due to perceptual constraints. We demonstrate that f#sibilant sequences show in principle the same kind of temporal overlap as sibilant clusters do, but due to the labial constriction dominating the acoustics, this temporal overlap ...

We compare the performance of three statistical parsing architectures on the problem of deriving typed dependency structures for French. The architectures are based on PCFGs with latent variables, graph-based dependency parsing and transition-based dependency parsing, respectively. We also study the influence of three types of lexical information: lemmas, morphological features, and word cluste...

Clustering hashtags based on their semantics is an important problem with many applications. The uncontrolled usage of hashtags in social media, however, makes the quality of semantics and the frequency of usage vary a lot, and this poses a challenge to the current approaches which capitalize on either the lexical semantics of a hashtag (by using metadata) or the contextual semantics of a hasht...

This paper proposes a new algorithm, called Semantic Suffix Tree Clustering (SSTC), to cluster web search results containing semantic similarities. The distinctive methodology of the SSTC algorithm is that it simultaneously constructs the semantic suffix tree through an on-depth and on-breadth pass by using semantic similarity and string matching. The semantic similarity is derived from the Wor...

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...

When presented with stimuli that contain illegal consonant clusters, Japanese listeners tend to hear an illusory vowel that makes their perception conform to the phonotactics of their language. In a previous paper, we suggested that this effect arises from language-specific prelexical processes (Dupoux, Kakehi, Hirose, Pallier & Mehler, 1999). The present paper assesses the alternative hypothes...