Sumer’s conquest by Semitic-speaking peoples from the west is symbolized history of Sargon Akkad. Assyrian sources report that he was son an unknown father, associated with hilly regions, born in on banks Euphrates, and defeated Lugalzagesi Uruk (Liverani, 2013). This narrative has influenced both historical reconstructions perception cultural linguistic contact between Semitic Sumerian worlds....

We present a new open source subjectivity lexicon for Dutch adjectives. The lexicon is a dictionary of 1,100 adjectives that occur frequently in online product reviews, manually annotated with polarity strength, subjectivity and intensity, for each word sense. We discuss two machine learning methods (using distributional extraction and synset relations) to automatically expand the lexicon to 5,...

This paper explores the use of the resources in the National Library of Medicine's Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) for the construction of a lexicon useful for processing texts in the field of molecular biology. A lexicon is constructed from overlapping terms in the UMLS SPECIALIST lexicon and the UMLS Metathesaurus to obtain both morphosyntactic and semantic information for terms, and t...