This paper reports the results of the WordNet.PTglobal project, an extension of WordNet.PT to all Portuguese varieties. Profiting from a theoretical model of high level explanatory adequacy and from a convenient and flexible development tool, WordNet.PTglobal achieves a rich and multipurpose lexical resource, suitable for contrastive studies and for a vast range of language-based applications c...

We use the technique of SVM anchoring to demonstrate that lexical features extracted from a training corpus are not necessary to obtain state of the art results on tasks such as Named Entity Recognition and Chunking. While standard models require as many as 100K distinct features, we derive models with as little as 1K features that perform as well or better on different domains. These robust re...

In this paper, the metaphorical NN and NA/AN compounds in Italian Croatian language are described using contrastive method. A narrow semantic corpus analysis is performed generative lexical models, meanings shown framework of cognitive linguistics.

Tone as a phonological category is capable of distinguishing the meanings of two lexical words by varying the pitch height and/or contour differences. In a tone language, it is indispensable for a hearer to perceive the f0 fluctuations (and the phonetic and phonological properties) associated with distinct speech signals that distinguish the lexical meanings (Yip 2004, Francis et. al 2003). To ...

This paper addresses the question of how to account for verbal polysemy from a contrastive point of view. By examining the syntactic and semantic distribution of arguments of a selected number of English and German motion verbs, I intend to demonstrate the usefulness of Fillmore’s (1982) Frame Semantics for describing verbal argument realization patterns across languages. In this connection it ...

The study is part of a series of studies which examine the acoustic correlates of lexical stress in several typologically different languages, in three speech styles: spontaneous speech, phrase reading, and wordlist reading. This study focuses on Czech, a language with stress fixed on the first syllable of a prosodic word, with no contrastive function at the level of individual words. The acous...

This paper aims at a lexical description of frequent uses of frequent lexical verbs in Swedish on the background of Czech, with some implications for the lexical description of such verb uses verbs in general. It results in a draft of a production lexicon of Swedish frequent verbs for advanced Czech learners of Swedish, with focus on their uses as light verbs. The introductory sections (1 and 2...