The thesis tries to adopt the method used by Leech and Short in their book Style in Fiction to make a relatively overall and objective analysis of the novel’s language from lexical and grammatical Category. As far as the lexical features are concerned, the author employs special lexical items and lexical clusters. The lexical deviation and word connotations are mainly used for characterization ...

This paper describes the University of Sydney’s WSD and Lexical Substitution systems for SemEval-2007. These systems are principally based on evaluating the substitutability of potential synonyms in the context of the target word. Substitutability is measured using Pointwise Mutual Information as obtained from the Web1T corpus. The WSD systems are supervised, while the Lexical Substitution syst...

An event-related brain potentials (ERPs) experiment was carried out to investigate the time course of lexical stress encoding in language production. Native speakers of Dutch viewed a series of pictures corresponding to bisyllabic names which were either stressed on the first or on the second syllable and made go/no-go decisions on the lexical stress location of those picture names. Behavioral ...

this study was intended first to categorize the l2 learners in terms of their learning style preferences and second to investigate if their learning preferences are related to lexical inferencing. moreover, strategies used for lexical inferencing and text related issues of text density and parts of speech were studied to determine their moderating effects and the best predictors of lexical infe...

I suggest that Geoffrey Nunberg's work can make two contributions to the issue of the relationship of lexical semantics to knowledge representation. The first is the claim that Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation are the same. The second (which is both more controversial and more difficult to implement) is that the connection between this world knowledge and lexical items must be qui...

In this talk, we are going to give a systematic view of lexical semantics of Chinese language. From macro perspective point of view, lexical conceptual meanings are classified into hierarchical semantic types and each type plays some particular semantic functions of Host, Attribute, and Value to form a semantic compositional system. Lexical senses and their compositional functions will be exemp...

In this paper, we present our system addressing Task 1 of CL-SciSumm Shared Task at BIRNDL 2016. Our system makes use of lexical and syntactic dependency cues, and applies rule-based approach to extract text spans in the Reference Paper that accurately reflect the citances. Further, we make use of lexical cues to identify discourse facets of the paper to which cited text belongs. The lexical an...

In lexicalized grammatical formalisms, it is possible to separate lexical category assignment from the combinatory processes that make use of such categories, such as parsing and realization. We adapt techniques from supertagging — a relatively recent technique that performs complex lexical tagging before full parsing (Bangalore and Joshi, 1999; Clark, 2002) — for chart realization in OpenCCG, ...

This study was intended first to categorize the L2 learners in terms of their learning style preferences and second to investigate if their learning preferences are related to lexical inferencing. Moreover, strategies used for lexical inferencing and text related issues of text density and parts of speech were studied to determine their moderating effects and the best predictors of lexical infe...

Five phenomena concerning the meanings of words are outlined in this paper. They concern (1) our limited introspective access to the nature of lexical representations; (2) the existence of lexical entries that make accessible the sense of a word; (3) the effects of context on the interpretation of words; (4) the systematic gaps in the acquisition of lexical knowledge; and (5) the existence of d...