We investigate the utility of an algorithm for translation lexicon acquisition (SABLE), used previously on a very large corpus to acquire general translation lexicons, when that algorithm is applied to a much smaller corpus to produce candidates for domain-specific translation lexicons. 1 I n t r o d u c t i o n Reliable translation lexicons are useful in many applications, such as cross-langua...

Abstract Previous research on the acquisition of grammatical gender has shown that this property is acquired early in transparent systems such as Russian. However, it not clear to what extent children are sensitive assignment cues and they simply memorize correspondences between frequent lexical items. Furthermore, we do know if bilingual different from monolingual respect. This article reports...

This paper presents a very simple and effective approach to using parallel corpora for automatic bilingual lexicon acquisition. The approach, which uses the Random Indexing vector space methodology, is based on finding correlations between terms based on their distributional characteristics. The approach requires a minimum of preprocessing and linguistic knowledge, and is efficient, fast and sc...

We investigate the utility of an algorithm for translation lexicon acquisition (SABLE), used previously on a very large corpus to acquire general translation lexicons, when that algorithm is applied to a much smaller corpus to produce candidates for domain-specific translation lexicons. 1 I n t r o d u c t i o n Reliable translation lexicons are useful in many applications, such as cross-langua...

The responsibility of deciding which of the activated lexical item needs to be prioritized for further processing is done by lexical selection mechanism. This uncomplicated mechanism is complicated for bilingual and multilingual populations as they face a cognitive challenge during speech processing and production. That is, the words in all the languages begin to get operative to certain extent...

Solving arithmetic problems is a cognitive task that heavily relies on language processing. One might thus wonder whether this language-reliance leads to qualitative differences (e.g., greater difficulties, error types, etc.) in arithmetic for bilingual individuals who frequently have to solve arithmetic problems in more than one language. The present study investigated how proficiency in two l...