We investigated the lexicalization of syntactic knowledge in two reading experiments, one using a moving window paradigm and one measuring eye movements. Our study was motivated by Spivey-Knowlton and Sedivy’s (1995) finding that verb class, and by implication frequency information, determined how easily a prepositional phrase (PP) was attached to a verb phrase (VP) or to a direct object noun p...

the present study endeavors to unravel the enigma of the psycholinguistic mechanisms underpinning bilingual mental lexicon by analyzing the issue of l1 lexicalization as a construct epitomizing an overarching framework. it involves 78 juniors at the islamic azad university, roudehen branch. the study inspects the impact of the interventionist/noninterventionist treatments on both sets of lexica...

I apply the model of semantic universals in terms informativeness/complexity trade-off (Kemp, Xu, and Regier 2018) to Boolean connectives. The explains crosslinguistic absence connective NAND, once theoretical insights from Horn 1972 Katzir Singh 2013 are incorporated. lack NAND follows if languages optimize between (a) simplicity lexicon measured primitive symbols (b) informativeness accurate ...

The online era has made available almost cosmic amounts of information in the public and semi-restricted domains, prompting development of corresponding host of technologies to organize and navigate this information. One of these developing technologies deals with encoding information from free form natural language into a structured form as RDF triples. This representation enables machine proc...

Ontologies provide a common understanding of a specific domain of interest that can be communicated between people and used as background knowledge for automated reasoning in a wide range of applications. In this paper we address the design of multilingual ontologies following well-defined knowledge engineering methodologies with the support of novel collaborative development approaches. In par...

In word retrieval, speakers need to select a lexical entry among several co-activated candidates for lexicalization. How a target entry is selected is a matter of ongoing debate. Semantic context effects on naming times, as seen in the blocked-cyclic naming paradigm, are of specific interest to this debate. In the standard version of this paradigm, participants name lists of objects compiled fr...

A lexicalized tree-adjoining grammar is a tree-adjoining grammar where each elementary tree contains some overt lexical item. Such grammars are being used to give lexical accounts of syntactic phenomena, where an elementary tree defines the domain of locality of the syntactic and semantic dependencies of its lexical items. It has been claimed in the literature that for every tree-adjoining gram...

We present current work dealing with the integration of a multilingual thesaurus for social sciences in a NLP framework for supporting Knowledge-Driven Information Extraction in the field of social sciences. We describe the various steps that lead to a running IE system: lexicalization of the labels of the thesaurus and semi-automatic generation of domain specific IE grammars, with their subseq...

This article presents the linguistic bases of Persian light verb constructions and shows the corpus based construction of lists of collocates for some common Persian verbs. The proposed methods of corpus construction are language independent and the good results on a relatively small corpus of 20 million words confirms the power of association measures based on the hypergeometric distribution. ...