The present study focuses on the comparative description of concepts unreal world in Russian and English. research mythological religious ideas about which is specific to speakers two languages has been taken ethnography, folkloristics culturology. At same time, linguistic this phenomenon was sporadic, both conceptology comparison multi-structural languages. above-mentioned determines relevance...

The selection of appropriate Lexical Units (LUs) is an important issue in the development of Continuous Speech Recognition (CSR) systems. Word has been used classically as unit in most of them. However, proposals of non-word units have begun to arise. Since the subject of this study is the Basque language, which is an agglutinative language with a complex structure inside words, non-word units ...

The paper focuses on selecting an optimal set of the Multiword Expressions Extraction methods used as a tool during wordnet expansion. Wordnet multiword lexical units are a broad class and it is difficult to find a single extraction method fulfilling the task. Many extraction association measures were tested on very large corpora and a very large wordnet, namely plWordNet. Several new measures ...

In this paper, we investigate which information is useful for the detection of rhetorical (RST) relations between (Multi-) Sentential Discourse Units ((M -)SDUs)-text spans consisting of one or more sentences-within the same paragraph. In order to do so, we simplified the task of discourse parsing to a decision problem in which we decided whether an (M-)SDU is either rhetorically related to a p...

We present a reinterpretation of lexical information embedded in the English WordNet in an alternate type of structure called lexical system. First, we characterize lexical systems as graphs of lexical units (word senses) connected mainly by Meaning-Text lexical function relations, then introduce a hand-built lexical system: the French Lexical Network or frLN, a lexical resource that implements...

Speech recognition systems are conventionally broken up into phonemic acoustic models, pronouncing dictionaries in terms of the phonemic units in the acoustic model and language models in terms of lexical units from the pronouncing dictionary. Here we explore a new method for incorporating pronunciation probabilities into recognition systems by moving them from the pronouncing lexicon into the ...

We model word substitution errors made by normal and aphasic speakers with an interactive activation model of lexicalization. This comprises a three-layer architecture of semantic, lexical, and phonological units. We test four hypotheses about the origin of aphasic word substitutions: that they result from pathological decay, loss of within-level inhibitory connections, increased initial random...

Automatic Multi-word Units Extraction is an important issue in Natural Language Processing. This paper has proposed a new statistical method based on a large-scale balanced corpus to extract multi-word units. We have used two improved traditional parameters: mutual information and log-likelihood ratio, and have increased the precision for the top 10,000 words extracted through the method to 80....

One of the main approaches to extract multi-word units is the frequency threshold approach, but the way this approach considers dispersion data still leaves a lot to be desired. This study adopts Gries’s (2008) dispersion measure to extract trigrams from a Chinese corpus, and the results are compared with those of the frequency threshold approach. It is found that the overlap between the two ap...