We describe a formal framework for interpretation of words and compounds in a discourse context which integrates a symbolic lexicon/grammar, word-sense probabilities , and a pragmatic component. The approach is motivated by the need to handle productive word use. In this paper, we concentrate on compound nominals. We discuss the inadequacies of approaches which consider compound interpretation ...

Few approaches to extract word translations from non-parallel texts have been proposed so far. Researchers have not been encouraged to work on this topic because extracting information from non-parallel corpora is a difficult task producing poor results. Whereas for parallel texts, word translation extraction can reach about 99%, the accuracy for non-parallel texts has been around 72% up to now...

A novel method for unsupervised acquisition of knowledge for taxonomies of concepts from raw Wikipedia text is presented. We assume that the concepts classified under the same node in a taxonomy are described in a comparable way in Wikipedia. The concepts in 6 taxonomies extracted from WordNet are mapped onto Wikipedia pages and the lexico-syntactic patterns describing semantic structures expre...

FrameNet is a lexico-semantic dataset that embodies the theory of frame semantics. Like other semantic databases, FrameNet is incomplete. We augment it via the paraphrase database, PPDB, and gain a threefold increase in coverage at 65% precision.

We combine corpus methodology with experimental methods to gain insights into the nature of antonymy as a lexico-semantic relations and the degree of entrenchment and routinization of antonymic word-pairs in memory.

This paper reports on the francophone corpus archive Corpus des variétés nationales du français (CoVaNa-FR) and the lexico-statistical platform Varitext. It outlines the design and data format of the samples as well as presenting various usage scenarios related to the applications featured by the platform’s toolbox.

We describe a formal framework for interpretation of words and compounds in a discourse context which integrates a symbolic lexicon/grammar, word-sense probabilities , and a pragmatic component. The approach is motivated by the need to handle productive word use. In this paper, we concentrate on compound nominals. We discuss the inadequacies of approaches which consider compound interpretation ...

1. INTRODUCTION. This paper investigates a small set of specific-general noun sequences (SGNs) and their role as a system of nominal classification in Sinhala. Systems of nominal classification have typically been described in terms of three sub-types: 1) lexical systems (class terms and measure terms), 2) lexico-grammatical systems (classifiers), and 3) grammatical systems (noun class markers ...