Despite growing evidence of young adults neurally pre-activating word features during sentence comprehension, less clear is the degree to which this generalizes to older adults. Using ERPs, we tested for linguistic prediction in younger and older readers by means of indefinite articles (a's and an's) preceding more and less probable noun continuations. Although both groups exhibited cloze proba...

Compound words are integral to the development of word knowledge in English. This study explored cross-linguistic similarities and differences compound-meaning inference, focusing on semantic relation between modifier head noun-noun compounds. Semantic specifies how meanings combined. Although some less-established compounds allow multiple relation, causing ambiguity meaning, L1 speakers Englis...

Noun-noun compound is a common type of multiword expression in English. It causes problems in natural language processing as many other kinds of MWEs. In this paper, we extract noun-noun compounds using their POS tags. Then the extracted nounnoun compounds are aligned to their Chinese translations using word alignment method. The statistical analysis of the alignments shows that English noun-no...

This study investigated how fourth graders with different proficiency levels (1st and 4th quartile, 192 195 pupils respectively) produce detect German noun capitalization in relation to two factors, lexical-semantic characteristics of the structure phrase (NP). The first factor includes concrete abstract nouns, nominalized verbs adjectives, second syntactic context NP (with or without determine...

Previous research indicates that mental representations of word meanings are distributed along both semantic and syntactic dimensions such that nouns and verbs are relatively distinct from one another. Two experiments examined the effect of representational distance between meanings on recognition of ambiguous spoken words by comparing recognition of unambiguous words, noun-verb homonyms, and n...

This paper describes a bootstrapping method for automatically tagging noun compounds with their corresponding semantic relations. Our work takes advantage of the collocation of senses of the noun compound constituents and also word similarity. We exploit this to generate a set of noun compounds from a set of previously tagged noun compounds by replacing one constituent of each noun compound wit...

Extraction and validation of multiword expressions (MWEs) thanks to association measures is a very common method. Researchers use it for extraction of MWEs of different lengths or different syntactic structures. However, we never wonder if the association measures collected on an MWE with one particular structure (e.g. Verb-Preposition) is relevant for collecting an MWE with a different one (e....

Translating accounting documents, in general, and accounting terminology, in particular, is not a simple task, especially when the new terms keep created in pace with accounting developments. This study was carried out to find the most common and preferable ways to translate accounting terms from English into Persian. Also, an attempt was made to identify the frequently used patterns of word-fo...