Most contemporary theories of grammar assume a general organization in which elementary constituents are drawn from a place called the " Lexicon " for composition in the syntax, as in (1). (1) STUFF Syntax Lexicon Sound Meaning (Pure) Lexicon: place from which items are drawn for the syntax; the source of items used by the computational system of syntax While it is uncontroversial that our know...

This paper describes an annotation scheme for argumentation in opinionated texts such as newspaper editorials, developed from a corpus of approximately 500 English texts from Nepali and international newspaper sources. We present the results of analysis and evaluation of the corpus annotation – currently, the inter-annotator agreement kappa value being 0.80 which indicates substantial agreement...

The paper describes an ongoing project of building a bilingual valency lexicon in the framework of Functional Generative Description. The bilingual lexicon is designed as a result of interlinking frames and frame elements of two already existing valency lexicons. First, we give an overall account of the character of the lexicons to be linked, second, the process of frame linking is explained, a...

Two typical approaches to sentiment analysis are lexicon look up and machine learning. Even though recent studies have shown that machine learning approaches in general outperform the lexicon look up approaches, completely ignoring the knowledge encoded in sentiment lexicons may not be optimal. We present an alternative method that incorporates sentiment lexicons as prior knowledge with machine...

In this position paper, we propose a first step toward automatic analysis of sentiments in dreams. 100 dreams were sampled from a dream bank created for a normative study of dreams. Two human judges assigned a score to describe dream sentiments. We ran four baseline algorithms in an attempt to automate the rating of sentiments in dreams. Particularly, we compared the General Inquirer (GI) tool,...

Whether simple syntax (in the form of simple word order) can emerge during the emergence of lexicon is studied from a simulation perspective; a multiagent computational model is adopted to trace a lexicon-syntax coevolution through iterative communications. Several factors that may affect this self-organizing process are discussed. An indirect meaning transference is simulated to study the effe...

Natural language processing technologies have advanced remarkably in the past two decades. However, biological terminology is a frequent cause of analysis errors when processing literature written in the biology domain. The BOOTStrep BioLexicon is a linguistic resource tailored for the domain to cope with these problems. It contains the following types of entries: (1) a set of terminological ve...

Computational semantics and lexical semantics have so far mostly been studied separately. As a result, computational semantics often constructs meanings with poor or little lexical sense, while lexical semantics generally only apply to simple and small phrases (as opposed to complete sentences). We present here a general framework to incorporate lexical semantics information originating from a ...

Functional Arabic Morphology is a formulation of the Arabic inflectional system seeking the working interface between morphology and syntax. ElixirFM is its high-level implementation that reuses and extends the Functional Morphology library for Haskell. Inflection and derivation are modeled in terms of paradigms, grammatical categories, lexemes and word classes. The computation of analysis or g...

This paper presents a system that generates Basque equivalents to terms that describe disorders in SNOMED CT. This task has been performed using Finite-State transducers and a medical prefixes and suffixes lexicon. This lexicon is composed of English-Basque translation pairs, and it is used both for the identification of the affixes of the English term and for the translation of them into Basqu...