Morphological knowledge (inflection, derivation, compounds) is useful for medical language processing. Some is available for medical English in the UMLS Specialist Lexicon, but not for the French language. Large corpora of medical texts can nowadays be obtained from the Web. We propose here a method, based on the cooccurrence of formally similar words, which takes advantage of such a corpus to ...

Two hundred forty English-speaking toddlers (24- and 36-month-olds) heard novel adjectives applied to familiar objects (Experiment 1) and novel objects (Experiment 2). Children were successful in mapping adjectives to target properties only when information provided by the noun, in conjunction with participants' knowledge of the objects, provided coherent category information: when basic-level ...

Discovering knowledge from textual sources and subsequently expanding the coverage of knowledge bases like DBPedia or Freebase currently requires either extensive manual work or carefully designed information extractors. Information extractors capture triples from textual sentences. Each triple consists of a subject, a predicate/property, and an object. Triples can be mediated via verbs, nouns,...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Many studies have shown that experienced second language (L2) learners are more skilled than novice L2 learners at a variety of L2 tasks, including auditory discrimination between members of L2 phonological contrasts. In this paper we argued that while L2 experience is typically beneficial when comparing the effects of more versus less experience, it is not necessarily beneficia...

Word learners are able to use the syntactic context of a word as one source of information to narrow down the space of possible meanings. We examine this bootstrapping process in the domain of adjectives, focusing on the acquisition of subcategories of Gradable Adjectives (GAs). We first show that robust patterns of adverbial modification in natural language sort GAs according to scalar structu...

Familiar fragrances usually induce positive mood states and elicit favorable evaluation. Relaxation is also widely thought to improve mood state. Yet experimental evidence on the effect of two different stimuli, fragrance smelling and breathing relaxation, on mood state, and fragrance evaluation is lacking. This study aimed to test (1) the effect of two familiar fragrances, lavender and myrtle,...

Lexical knowledge plays a vital role for systems translating between natural language and structured data, and an important part of such lexical knowledge are adjectives. In this paper we introduce a low-cost method for automatically acquiring adjective lexicalizations of restriction classes from a knowledge base by inspecting the range of properties. The resulting lexicalizations can then, for...

Teacher professional development, as a burgeoning term, has attracted a surge of interest in English language teaching. In second language (L2) professional development, the common orthodoxy has been one which considers teachers as that of knowledge consumers. It is commonly argued that top-down approaches to teachers’ professional development has done little to maximize teachers’ professionali...