This paper deals with a special type of automatic reasoning—a process of inference of new facts from a knowledge base. The presented type is not based on large embracive common-sense knowledge-base and wide-ranging ontology. Rather, it takes advantage of universal lexical database in the form of semantic network and also universal hypotheses that concern conversational implicatures.

This paper explores the knowledge transfer of internationally mobile scientists. It builds upon previous work on development methods for detecting German Using abstract terms publications covered in Scopus, this proposes a lexical-based approach to identify transmitters. These scientists are characterized by acquiring from their co-workers during international stay and transferring it return co...

The idea of a Lexical knowledge base was recently proposed by the ESPRIT BRA AQUILEX [Briscoe 91], [Calzolari 92] project, to provide information, mostly of a semantic nature, internally consistently structured and electronically available. Three levels of lexical representation are proposed in AQUILEX: (a) Machine Readable Dictionary (MRD), i.e. an electronic version of the paper dictionary; (...

Lexical and morphological knowledge of school-aged children are correlated with each other, and are often difficult to distinguish. One reason for this might be that many tasks currently used to assess morphological knowledge require children to inflect or derive real words in the language, thus recruiting their vocabulary knowledge. The current study investigated the possible separability of l...

The present study investigated the extent to which accent sensitivity provides the foundation for lexical knowledge and listening comprehension for Japanese university students learning English as a foreign language (EFL). On an English accent correctness (i.e., YES/NO response) decision task, 63 participants showed considerably high accuracy and speed in identifying correctly-accented nouns (8...

This study intended to inspect the possible effects of teaching English lexical clusters on speaking accuracy of Iranian EFL intermediate learners. Also it examined the influence of gender on the effect of teaching English lexical clusters on speaking accuracy of the same learners. 41 male and female EFL intermediate learners, studying  English at intermediate level at Zabankade Institute in Te...

Language learners rapidly acquire extensive semantic knowledge, but the development of this knowledge is difficult to study, in part because it is difficult to assess young children's lexical semantic representations. In our studies, we solved this problem by investigating lexical semantic knowledge in 24-month-olds using the Head-turn Preference Procedure. In Experiment 1, looking times to a r...

This  study  investigated  the  effect  of  language  complexity  and  group  size  on  knowledge construction in two online debates. Knowledge construction was assessed using Gunawardena et al.’s Interaction Analysis Model (1997). Language complexity was determined by dividing the  number  of  unique  words  by  total  words.  It  refers  to  the  lexical  variation.  The  results showed  that...

Lexical knowledge is an important predictor of school success The present study focuses on aspects of the lexical knowledge of bilingual children in both their LI and L2 It not only compares the amount of knowledge they have but also deals with qualitative aspects of their lexical knowledge Data were obtained from 40 bilingual Turkish-Dutch children (9and 11-year-olds) living in the Netherlands...