English Mnemonic Lexicon: Constituent Structure and Verbalization Potential

The English Lexicon Project.

The English Lexicon Project is a multiuniversity effort to provide a standardized behavioral and descriptive data set for 40,481 words and 40,481 nonwords. It is available via the Internet at elexicon.wustl.edu. Data from 816 participants across six universities were collected in a lexical decision task (approximately 3400 responses per participant), and data from 444 participants were collecte...

Constructing An English Valency Lexicon

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...

Extended Constituent-to-Dependency Conversion for English

We describe a new method to convert English constituent trees using the Penn Treebank annotation style into dependency trees. The new format was inspired by annotation practices used in other dependency treebanks with the intention to produce a better interface to further semantic processing than existing methods. In particular, we used a richer set of edge labels and introduced links to handle...

Post-verbal constituent ordering in English*

Constituent Quark Structure

In this talk I will motivate the the need for the constituent quark structure. I will also summarize results from the NJL model for the composites of the constituent quark and present an alternative QCD sum rule approach.