Lexical semantics is the study of word meaning. The semantic web is a vision of what the web could be if it would foremost consist of knowledge (structured data) rather than text or other unstructured data as it is today. This talk is about the future of word meaning if the semantic web becomes a reality. First, I will therefore briefly clarify what the semantic web vision consists of, followed...

Semantic knowledge has been adopted recently for SMT preprocessing, decoding and evaluation, in order to be able to compare sentences based on their meaning rather than on mere lexical and syntactic similarity. Little attention has been paid to semantic knowledge in the context of integrating fuzzy matches from a translation memory with SMT. We present work in progress which focuses on semantic...

Syntax-based vector spaces are used widely in lexical semantics and are more versatile than word-based spaces (Baroni and Lenci, 2010). However, they are also sparse, with resulting reliability and coverage problems. We address this problem by derivational smoothing, which uses knowledge about derivationally related words (oldish→ old) to improve semantic similarity estimates. We develop a set ...

The present study aims at the analysis of conventional implicatures (Grice, 1991) actualized in Ukrainian dialogical discourse. distinction between and conversational is described. We argue that what commonly considered implicature fact only Implicatures are inherently because they intended by speaker derived addressee Therefore, it makes sense to regard as such not discursive context (such bei...

This paper describes an application of distributional semantics to the study of syntactic productivity in diachrony, i.e., the property of grammatical constructions to attract new lexical items over time. By providing an empirical measure of semantic similarity between words derived from lexical co-occurrences, distributional semantics not only reliably captures how the verbs in the distributio...

Children seem to be relatively delayed in their comprehension of the verbal be-passive English, compared acquisition other constructions object-movement such as wh-questions and unaccusatives. Prior work has found that children’s performance on these passives can affected by verb’s lexical semantics. Through a meta-analysis experimental studies assessing English-speaking age for be- passive, we...

Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons is based on a 1996 workshop. It represents several fundamental lines of thinking that were, and remain, a useful organization of the issues in lexical semantics, and specifically in the organization and development of new generations of lexical corpora. The volume contains very useful background discussions of classic issues in lexical semantics (e.g., Eng...

Cultural, political, economic ties between peoples contribute to the emergence of mutual borrowing. Many lexemes in Ukrainian language come from Polish, and Polish language, turn, borrows Ukrainian. Lexical borrowings written records appeared lay for a long period XVI-XIX centuries. lexical elements had an influence on formation composition literary which was especially noticeable romanticism w...

1 The Problem Argument structure has two faces, semantic and syntactic. On the semantic side, argument structure represents the core participants in events (states, processes) designated by a single predicator. From this point of view it appears as a type of representation of event structure. On the syntactic side, argument structure represents the minimal information needed to characterize the...