LEONHARD LIPKA, Outline of English lexicology: Lexical structures, word semantics and word-formation.

Word-formation in English

published by the press syndicate of the university of cambridge A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Plag, Ingo. Word-formation in English / Ingo Plag. p. cm. – (Cambridge textbooks in linguistics) Includes bibliographical references (p.) and indexes. Contents Preface page xi Abbreviations and notational conve...

Enjoy The Paper: Lexical Semantics Via Lexicology

Current research being undertaken at both Cambridge and IBM is aimed at the construction of substantial lexicons containing lexical semantic information capable of use in automated natural language processing (NLP) applications. This work extends previous research on the semi-automatic extraction of lexical information from machine-readable versions of conventional dictionaries (MRDs) (see e.g....

Prototype Semantics: The English Word Lie

Word Sense Disambiguation, Lexical Semantics, and NLP Applications

Ide and Wilks argue that a fine-grained division of senses may not be an appropriate goal for a computational WSD task (Ide and Wilks, 2006). They propose that NLP needs correspond roughly to homograph-level distinctions, although they acknowledge some evidence of broad level distinctions within a homograph. They further argue that machine translation requires finer-grained distinctions than in...

Word onset patterns and lexical stress in English

Theories of English phonology regard syllable onset patterns as irrelevant to the assignment of lexical stress. This paper describes three studies that challenge this position. Study 1 tested whether stress patterns on a large sample of disyllabic English words varied as a function of word onset. The incidence of trochaic stress increased significantly with the number of consonants in word onse...