While paraphrasing is critical both for interpretation and generation of natural language, current systems use manual or semi-automatic methods to collect paraphrases. We present an unsupervised learning algorithm for identification of paraphrases from a corpus of multiple English translations of the same source text. Our approach yields phrasal and single word lexical paraphrases as well as sy...

We present ongoing work in linguistic processing of hashtags in Twitter text, with the goal of supplying normalized hashtag content to be used in more complex natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Hashtags represent collectively shared topic designators with considerable surface variation that can hamper semantic interpretation. Our normalization scripts allow for the lexical consolidation a...

This paper unearths the contribution of lexical cohesion to the textuality and overall meaning of Malcolm X’s speech 'The Ballot or the Bullet'. Drawing on Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) and Hoey’s (1991) theory of cohesion, specifically lexical   cohesion, whose main thrust is the role of lexical items in not only contributing to meaning but also serving as cohesive ties, the paper discusses how ...

In linguistic theories of how sentences encode meaning, a distinction is often made between the context-free rule-based combination of lexical-semantic features of the words within a sentence ("semantics"), and the contributions made by wider context ("pragmatics"). In psycholinguistics, this distinction has led to the view that listeners initially compute a local, context-independent meaning o...

Delays in early expressive vocabulary can reflect a specific delay language acquisition or more general impairments social communication. The neural mechanisms underlying the (dis)ability to establish first lexical–semantic representations remain relatively unknown. Here, we investigate electrophysiological underpinnings of these during critical phase lexical two groups 19-month-old toddlers at...

The present paper deals with the issues pertaining to role of language in quantity interpretation process modern English. authors attempt describe means at different linguistic levels show level peculiarities each case. To prove that is integrative and multiple-factor levels, execute analysis quantitative meanings senses formed by lexical grammatical (morphological) units semantics. Cognitive m...

Interpreting anaphoric references is a fundamental aspect of our language competence that has long attracted the attention computational linguists. The appearance ever-larger anaphorically annotated data sets covering more and phenomena in ever-greater detail spurred development increasingly sophisticated models; as result, most recent state-of-the-art neural models are able to achieve impressi...

In this tutorial, we demonstrate how elements of Generative Lexicon Theory (GL) can be used to help enrich both established and developing lexical and computational semantic resources within the CL community. This includes lexicons, ontologies, annotation schemes, and annotated corpora (WordNet, VerbNet, PropBank, FrameNet, AMR, GMB, SIMPLE, and others). The tutorial is organized into two parts...