We describe an annotation experiment combining topics from lexicography and Word Sense Disambiguation. It involves a lexicon (Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs, PDEV), an existing data set (VPS-GradeUp), and an unpublished data set (RTE in PDEV Implicatures). The aim of the experiment was twofold: a pilot annotation of Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) on PDEV implicatures (lexicon glosses...

This paper introduces the RWTH-PHOENIX-Weather corpus, a video-based, large vocabulary corpus of German Sign Language suitable for statistical sign language recognition and translation. In contrast to most available sign language data collections, the RWTH-PHOENIX-Weather corpus has not been recorded for linguistic research but for the use in statistical pattern recognition. The corpus contains...

This paper describes one of the ways how to overcome some of the major limitations of current fulltext search engines. It deals with synonymy of the web search engine results by clustering them into relevant synonym category of given word. It employs WordNet lexical database and several linguistic approaches to classify results in search engine result page (SERP) in appropriate synonym category...

This paper presents an approach to the translation of compound words without the need for bilingual training text, by modeling the mapping of literal component word glosses (e.g. “iron-path”) into fluent English (e.g. “railway”) across multiple languages. Performance is improved by adding component-sequence and learnedmorphology models along with context similarity from monolingual text and opt...

This paper studies the impact of multiword expressions on Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). Several identification strategies of the multiwords in WordNet2.0 are tested in a real Senseval-3 task: the disambiguation of WordNet glosses. Although we have focused on Word Sense Disambiguation, the same techniques could be applied in more complex tasks, such as Information Retrieval or Question Answer...

The publication presents a fragment of story by Philip Šōʕra (Arabic: Aš-Šāʕir) in the Maʕ lūla dialect Modern Western Aramaic. Maaloula is Syrian city same name, located 55 km northeast Damascus. one three settlements which dialects modern Aramaic continue to be used as living language. focuses on capture radical Islamists during Civil War and killing several local residents. available corpus ...