This paper investigates two types of meaning shift in composition. The first examines the well-known shifts in meaning in predications, known as coercions, that involve aspectual verbs like start, begin or finish or a verb like enjoy in combination with non-event denoting direct object arguments. The second involves the modifications of meaning that result from the application of an adjective m...

The received view is that the grammar of meaning claims is descriptive. It is our purpose in what follows to deny this consensus.. . . We offer, instead, a radically normative position on meaning claims. That is, we do not content ourselves with the relatively common view that part of the pattern characterized in ascribing meanings is the structure of socially accepted norms of a society. Rathe...

Example-based machine translation (EBMT) is a promising translation method for speechto-speech translation because of its robustness. It retrieves example sentences similar to the input and adjusts their translations to obtain the output. However, it has problems in that the performance degrades when input sentences are long and when the style of inputs and that of the example corpus are differ...

This paper presents ZOMBILINGO, a Game With A Purpose (GWAP) that allows for the dependency syntax annotation of French corpora. The created resource is freely available on the game Web site. Mots-clés : jeux ayant un but, complexité, annotation, syntaxe en dépendances.

Semantic Representation 2 This chapter deals with how word meaning is represented by speakers of a language, reviewing psychological perspectives on the representation of meaning. We start by outlining four key issues in the investigation of word meaning, then we introduce current theories of semantics and we end with a brief discussion of new directions. Meaning representation has long interes...

Resumen: Este art culo contine una breve descripcii on de los principales compo-nentes software del Multilingual Central Repository de Meaning y su contenido inicial. Abstract: This paper provides a brief description of the main software components of the Multilingual Central Repository of Meaning and their initial content.