In SENSEVAL-3, CL Research participated in four tasks: English all-words, English lexical sample, disambiguation of WordNet glosses, and automatic labeling of semantic roles. This participation was performed within the development of CL Research’s Knowledge Management System, which massively tags texts with syntactic, semantic, and discourse characterizations and attributes. This System is full...

In the literature, some researchers (e.g. Gross, Fischer and Miller 1989, Charles, Reed and Derryberry 1994) treat antonym pairs as either canonical (for example old/young, cold/hot and happy/sad) or non-canonical (aged/youthful, cool/hot, happy/miserable), while others assume or argue for a continuum between the two categories (e.g. Herrmann, Chaffin, Conti, Peters and Robbins 1979, Murphy 200...

Many natural language processing tasks, such as word sense disambiguation, knowledge acquisition, information retrieval, use semantically tagged corpora. Till recently, these corpus-based systems relied on text manually annotated with semantic tags; but the massive human intervention in this process has become a serious impediment in building robust systems. In this paper, we present AutoASC, a...

WordNet represents a cornerstone in the Computational Linguistics field, linking words to meanings (or senses) through a taxonomical representation of synsets, i.e., clusters of words with an equivalent meaning in a specific context often described by few definitions (or glosses) and examples. Most of the approaches to the Word Sense Disambiguation task fully rely on these short texts as a sour...

A considerable amount of research has already established that academic writing is an interactive accomplishment, the success which largely depends on appropriate writer-reader relationship. Yet, nature this relationship been subject few studies. Also scarce are studies how writers address needs their readers and so, through elaboration, manage interactions with them. Drawing a corpus 68 articl...

Abstract An overlooked fragmentary Latin text preserved in the Corpus of Roman Land Surveyors proves to be a translation lost branch Aratean commentary tradition. Stripped classicizing veneer mistakenly applied by earlier editors, fragment can recognized as work an unknown and inept late-antique Translator, perhaps working within generation fragment’s earliest manuscript witness, Codex Arcerian...

We analyze how different conceptions of lexical semantics affect sense annotations and how multiple sense inventories can be compared empirically, based on annotated text. Our study focuses on the MASC project, where data has been annotated using WordNet sense identifiers on the one hand, and FrameNet lexical units on the other. This allows us to compare the sense inventories of these lexical r...