This paper unearths the contribution of lexical cohesion to the textuality and overall meaning of Malcolm X’s speech 'The Ballot or the Bullet'. Drawing on Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) and Hoey’s (1991) theory of cohesion, specifically lexical   cohesion, whose main thrust is the role of lexical items in not only contributing to meaning but also serving as cohesive ties, the paper discusses how ...

We have created an open-source mapping between the SIL’s semantic domains (used for rapid lexicon building and organization for under-resourced languages) and WordNet, the standard resource for lexical semantics in natural language processing. We show that the resources complement each other, and suggest ways in which the mapping can be improved even further. The semantic domains give more gene...

This document provides a tutorial introduction to the zipfR package (Evert and Baroni, 2007) for Large-Number-of-Rare-Events (LNRE) modeling of lexical distributions (Baayen, 2001). We assume that R is installed on your computer and that you have basic familiarity with it. If this is not the case, please start by visiting the R page at http://www.r-project.org/. The page provides links to downl...

Over the last twenty years aspectual notions have been increasingly appealed to in structuring verbal lexical semantic representations and, concomitantly, in formulating principles of argument expression. This move has been further fueled by the significant insights that have emerged from this line of research. Yet, despite the enthusiasm for aspectual notions that their proliferation demonstra...

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...

A wide range of applications, from social media to scientific literature analysis, involve graphs in which documents are connected by links. We introduce a topic model for link prediction based on the intuition that linked documents will tend to have similar topic distributions, integrating a max-margin learning criterion and lexical term weights in the loss function. We validate our approach o...

The computational lexicalization of a grammar is the optimization of the links between lexicalized rules and lexical items in order to improve the quality of the bottom-up filtering during parsing. This problem is N P-comple te and untractable on large grammars. An approximation algorithm is presented. The quality of the suboptimal solution is evaluated on real-world grammars as well as on rand...

We present a sub-sentential alignment system that links linguistically motivated phrases in parallel texts based on lexical correspondences and syntactic similarity. We compare the performance of our subsentential alignment system with different symmetrization heuristics that combine the GIZA++ alignments of both translation directions. We demonstrate that the aligned linguistically motivated p...

1 I n t r o d u c t i o n The two-level model of computational morphology was proposed by Koskenniemi (1983) and has found widespread acceptance due mostly to its general applicability, declarativeness of rules and clear separation of linguistic knowledge and program. The essential difference from generative phonology is that there are no intermediate states between lexical and surface represen...