An approach to the word sense disambiguation (WSD) relaying on the WordNet synsets is proposed. The method uses semantically tagged glosses to perform a process similar to the spreading activation in semantic network, creating ranking of the most probable meanings for word annotation. Preliminary evaluation shows quite promising results. Comparison with the state-of-theart WSD methods indicates...

We introduce Wiktionary as an emerging lexical semantic resource that can be used as a substitute for expert-made resources in AI applications. We evaluate Wiktionary on the pervasive task of computing semantic relatedness for English and German by means of correlation with human rankings and solving word choice problems. For the first time, we apply a concept vector based measure to a set of d...

In order to efficiently access the meaning of a word, there should be some structure to the way meaning is stored in memory. One possibility is that semantic memory for words is organized in an n-dimensional space in which there are n features that collectively identify all words. This possibility underlies Mitchell et al’s (2008) suggestion that 25 sensory-motor features can be used to model f...

"Abelard composed four works on logic: (1) Introductiones Parvulorum, which consists of short glosses on Porphyry Eisagoge and Aristotle Categories and De Interpretatione; (2) Logica Ingredientibus (so called because ingredientibus is the first word of its text), which consists of longer glosses on the texts covered by the previous work together with Boethius' De Differentiis Topicis and was pr...

This paper discusses the need for a dictionary of affixal negations and regular antonyms to facilitate their automatic detection in text. Without such a dictionary, affixal negations are very difficult to detect. In addition, we show that the set of affixal negations is not homogeneous, and that different NLP tasks may require different subsets. A dictionary can store the subtypes of affixal ne...

The current study examined the impact of translanguaging on second language reading comprehension. involved an experimental and a control group. participants in group (n = 38) were offered four opportunities to engage Arabic – their first comprehending text English. These occasions for included: (a) receiving glosses (i.e., only meaning) key terms text, (b) employing summarizing paragraphs from...

Abstract While sound glosses from the Six Dynasties and early Tang provide direct evidence for morphological alternations in Archaic Chinese, studies on syntax of this language generally disregard these data. This neglect is due part to perceived unreliability glosses. In paper, I first argue that arguments against their reliability do not stand scrutiny, they are a simple philological curiosit...