Support verb constructions range from idiosyncratic to predictable. Lexical functions provide a solution to translation of idiosyncratic constructions only. Our corpus research aims to contribute to automatic translation of support verb constructions where the verb selects certain semantic groups of collocates, and where novel collocations can be expected. We investigate samples of support verb...

This paper describes new functionalities implemented in a terminological database (TDB) in order to allow efficient editing of and access to multilingual data. The functionalities are original in the sense that they allow users of the database to retrieve the equivalents not only of headwords, but also of semantically related terms (especially collocations) that appear within the articles. The ...

We report in this paper the observation of one tokenization per source. That is, the same critical fragment in different sentences from the same source almost always realize one and the same of its many possible tokenizations. This observation is demonstrated very helpful in sentence tokenization practice, and is argued to be with far-reaching implications in natural language processing. 1 I n ...

This paper presents a novel method for organizing and presenting collocations in a specialized dictionary of computing and the Internet. This work is undertaken in order to meet a specific user need, i.e. that of searching for a collocate (or a short list of collocates) that expresses a specific meaning in a text production situation. The model we suggest is based on lexical functions (=LFs) th...

CL Research's word-sense disambiguation (WSD) system is part of the DIMAP dictionary software, designed to use any full dictionary as the basis for unsupervised disambiguation. Official SENSEV AL-2 results were generated using WordNet, and separately using the New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE). The disambiguation functionality exploits whatever information is made available by the lexical...

Collocations pose specific problems in translation (both human and machine translation). For the native speaker of English it may be obvious that you ’pay attention’, but for a native speaker of Dutch it would have been much simpler if in English people ’donated attention.’ Within an MT system, we can deal with these mismatches in different ways. Simply adding the entry to our bilingual diction...

The majority of electronic data today is in textual form. Financial data such as articles in the Wall Street Journal are written as texts. These electronic documents contain a wealth of information but require human interpretation. For financial analysis, rapid up-to-date information is critical. Most software tools currently require data which are better structured than text (such as data in r...

Attempts to improve the performance of handwriting recognition systems have often involved the exploitation of linguistic constraints such as syntax or semantics. In either case, successful implementation requires the creation of a lexical database containing the relevant information. However, to create a database of semantic information from scratch for a realistically sized vocabulary is an e...

Linguistics as a scientific study of human language intends to describe and explain it. However, validity of a linguistic theory is difficult to prove due to volatile nature of language as a human convention and impossibility to cover all real-life linguistic data. In spite of these problems, computational techniques and modeling can provide evidence to verify or falsify linguistic theories. As...