Talmy‘s (1985) crosslinguistic typology of lexicalization patterns of motion events have been extensively used in second language acquisition (SLA) research as a means to examine how second language (L2) learners map form, meaning, and function. These studies have yielded some conflicting results regarding the learnability of L2 lexicalization patterns  arguably the oversimplification over and...

Two general methods for the lexicalization of probabilistic grammars are presented which are modular, powerful and require only a small number of parameters. The rst method multiplies the unlexicalized parse tree probability with the exponential of the mutual information terms of all word-governor pairs in the parse. The second lexicalization method accounts for the dependencies between the dii...

DBpedia encodes massive amounts of open domain knowledge and is growing by accumulating more triples at the same rate as Wikipedia. However, the applications often require natural language formulations of these triples to present the information as a natural text. The RealTextlex2 framework offers a scalable platform to transform these triples to natural language sentences using lexicalization ...

In microlinguistics, the syntax-lexical semantics interface is a key research area that focuses on interaction between lexical properties of predicates and related syntactic structures. This paper provides an overview main studies in published internationally past four decades, categorizing them into three major groups approaches (the Projectionist, Constructionist, interactive). It also offers...

This paper presents a new algorithm for plan recognition using an action grammar formalism based on Combinatory Catagorial Grammar, that requires a significant shift in thinking about the problem of plan recognition. This approach makes significant use of the concepts of lexicalization and headedness from natural language parsing. It argues that lexicalization of action grammars can help plan r...

This paper presents the first probabilistic parsing results for French, using the recently released French Treebank. We start with an unlexicalized PCFG as a baseline model, which is enriched to the level of Collins’ Model 2 by adding lexicalization and subcategorization. The lexicalized sister-head model and a bigram model are also tested, to deal with the flatness of the French Treebank. The ...

This paper investigates the distinctions of verbs stealing among Arabic-English translators. First, four selected for this study were ‘shoplift’, ‘rob’, ‘burglarize’, and ‘heist’. Second, visual stimuli developed along with their dimensions distinctions. Six participants presented these asked to describe them in Arabic English, respective definitions. Semantic analysis English naming pattern re...

Shifting to a lexicalized grammar reduces the number of parsing errors and improves application results. However, such an operation affects a syntactic parser in all its aspects. One of our research objectives is to design a realistic model for grammar lexicalization. We carried out experiments for which we used a grammar with very simple content and formalism, and a very informative syntactic ...