The organizational structure of bilinguals’ linguistic knowledge is a key question in bilingualism research. Research in the last several decades has concentrated on examining whether bilinguals have one shared mental lexicon or two separate lexicons. The evidence tends in favor of the hypothesis that a bilingual’s two languages are distinct at the lexical level, but share a single conceptual l...

We present a study that investigates that factors that determine what makes a good lexical substitution. We begin by observing that there is a correlation between the corpus frequency of words and the number of WordNet senses they have, and hypothesise that readers might prefer common, but more ambiguous words over less ambiguous but also less common ones. We identify four properties of a word ...

Sub-categorized arguments introduced by the French preposition pour has been under-studied in previous work, as can be seen from the incompleteness of existing lexical-syntactic resources in that regard. In this paper, we briefly introduce the various types of sub-categorization in pour, which are to be distinguished from occurrences of pour as a discourse connective. We describe how we added a...

Stylistics as an interdisciplinary field of study has evolved over the years it encompasses theories and approaches contemporary times from language, literature, sociology, pedagogy, psychology, anthropology. Since core to stylistics is present research aims address ramifications Colonization in poetic works Agha Shahid Ali. The sample for explore stylistic features Language Games. selected tex...

  This paper investigates the use of ‘lexical bundles’ in two broad corpora of journalistic writing. The aim of this study is to compare the use of lexical bundles in the two domains, one consisted of newspaper articles written in English and published in England and the other one comprised of newspaper articles written in Persian from Iranian publications. For this purpose, the frequency...

Configuration and geometry of bracing systems affect the seismic performance of structures significantly. Recently, the current authors have introduced a new configuration for eccentric bracing of structural frames that may be assumed as the combination of inverted Y-type and rotated K-type EBFs. The resulted braced frame is called EBF-DVL, consisting of two vertical links attached together by ...

Knowledge-based multilingual language processing benefits from having access to correctly established relations between semantic lexicons, such as the links between different WordNets. WordNet linking is a process that can be sped up by the use of computational techniques. Manual evaluations of the partly automatically established synonym set (synset) relations between Dutch and English in Corn...

This research is aimed at developing a hierarchical alternation-based lexical architecture for machine translation. The proposed architecture makes extensive use of information sharing in describing valency frames through derivational links from base frames, rather than as independent entities. This has advantages in descriptive efficiency, robustness and maintainability. The lexicon being deve...

In this paper, we present a browsing framework for digitised cultural collections. Using a data analysis technique called Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), units of thought can be constructed from a series of objects and their tags. FCA can dynamically generate links in between objects and induce a serendipitous browsing experience using a relatively simple data structure. We evaluate the utility ...

In this paper we propose an approach for identifying syntactic behaviours related to lexical items and linking them to the meanings. This approach is based on the analysis of the textual content presented in LMF normalized dictionaries by means of Definition and Context classes. The main particularity of these contents is their large availability and their semantically control due to their atta...