qeysar aminpour (1959-2007) is one of the outstanding figures in contemporary persian poetry. one of the prominent aspects of his poetic style is the distinct language of his poems in the three areas of lexicon, compositions and syntax. relying on these three areas, this study attempted to investigate the most important linguistic features of his poetry in order to figure out special style of t...

Ontologies as part of a lexicon are important for many NLP tasks. In this paper, we draw on experiences gained in an ESPRIT project called TREVI, which concerns news filtering and enrichment and includes a English/Spanish multilingual Lexicon. We sketch the way the Lexicon, including an ontology, is constructed, and present the methodology used for adding domain ontologies. In general, the appr...

the spreading activation models of mental lexicon's structure have presented the lexicon in multiple layers (semantic- syntactic- phonological). each layer is a network of nodes which are associated by links. the nature of these links is different from layer to layer. the literature for english speakers has shown that in the phonological layer, phonological forms of words have been linked based...

The aim of this paper is to diagnose the sufficiency first-year pedagogy students’ discoursive competence, considering lexical, reading comprehension and written competences. Whit objective, three instruments were designed adapted, one for each competence: lexical availability test, test rubric evaluate an argumentative writing task. Among main findings, it stands out that highest performance c...

In this paper, we present an approach to lexicon optimization for Chinese language modeling. The method is an iterative procedure consisting of two phases, namely lexicon generation and lexicon pruning. In the first phase, we extract appropriate new words from a very large training corpus using statistical approaches. In the second phase, we prune the lexicon to a preset memory limitation using...

Word segmentation is a process to divide a sentence into meaningful units called “word unit” [ISO/DIS 24614-1]. What is a word unit is judged by principles for its internal integrity and external use constraints. A word unit’s internal structure is bound by principles of lexical integrity, unpredictability and so on in order to represent one syntactically meaningful unit. Principles for externa...

This paper presents the English valency lexicon EngValLex, built within the Functional Generative Description framework. The form of the lexicon, as well as the process of its semi-automatic creation is described. The lexicon describes valency for verbs and also includes links to other lexical sources, namely PropBank. Basic statistics about the lexicon are given. The lexicon will be later used...

Abstract Are the cognitive units in mental lexicon of Bantu speakers words or morphemes? The very small experimental literature addressing this question suggests that answer is morphemes, but a closer look at results shows premature. A novel theory lexicon, Discriminative Lexicon, which incorporates word-based view and computationally implemented Linear Learner (LDL) put to test with data set 1...

The study aims to find out what are lexicons used in the Sampi Gerumbungan dance costumes and its cultural meaning. method this is a descriptive qualitative design. directs researchers obtaining social information accurately, broadly, completely by designing problem formulations. results of found that there were sixteen (16) dance. All also classified based on parts body, namely head (5 lexicon...