Abstract Previous research has provided evidence for cross-language phonological activation during visual word recognition. However, such findings mainly came from alphabetic languages, and readers’ familiarity with the two scripts might differ. The present study aimed to test whether can be observed in Chinese, a logographic script, without confounding factor of script as readers read same dif...

Automatically acquiring synonymous collocation pairs such as and from corpora is a challenging task. For this task, we can, in general, have a large monolingual corpus and/or a very limited bilingual corpus. Methods that use monolingual corpora alone or use bilingual corpora alone are apparently inadequate because of low precision or low coverage. I...

Although it is generally agreed that Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is an application dependent task, the great majority of the efforts has aimed at the development of WSD systems without considering their application. We argue that this strategy is not appropriate, since some aspects, such as the sense repository and the disambiguation process itself, vary according to the application. Taking...

We describe our official runs for the ad hoc monolingual task in Hungarian for CLEF 2005. We conducted experiments with four stemmers of varying impact. The experiments indicate that stemmers focusing on noun inflection are as effective as more broadly oriented stemmers, and that extensive stemming is especially beneficial for Hungarian monolingual retrieval.

Although language modeling has been trending upwards steadily, models available for low-resourced languages are limited to large multilingual such as mBERT and XLM-RoBERTa, which come with significant overheads deployment vis-à-vis their model size, inference speeds, etc. We attempt tackle this problem by proposing a novel methodology apply knowledge distillation techniques filter language-spec...