This paper is devoted to a way of intending to improve the language mastery of students in every subject and in a broad range of education levels by using computer-based tools involving linguistic resources. Lexicon concepts useful for language learning are involved in dictionaries and other kinds of linguistic resources. These concepts (vocabulary, meanings, semantic categories, semantic relat...

A lexicon is essential to provide a proper semantic analysis of linguistic expressions. Thus, much work has been done to build one automatically. However, the results were not enough to define word meaning, but no more than a kind of thesaurus or taxonomy. In this paper, we present a new method that is not only more practical and efficient for implementing on computers, but also more reasonable...

Frame semantics is a linguistic theory which is currently gaining ground. The creation of lexical entries for a large number of words presupposes the development of complex lexical acquisition techniques in order to identify the vocabulary for describing the elements of a 'frame'. In this paper, we show how a lexical-semantic database compiled on the basis of a bilingual (English-French) dictio...

The first version of the Danish WordNet, DanNet, was released in March 2009 under an open source license similar to the Princeton Licence (cf. www.wordnet.dk). In order to present and discuss the set of encoded semantic information in a focused form and with some empirical data, we dive into a specific ontological type in the WordNet, namely humans. We present and discuss the information types ...

Lexical-semantic verb classifications have proved useful in supporting various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. The largest and the most widely deployed classification in English is Levin’s (1993) taxonomy of verbs and their classes. While this resource is attractive in being extensive enough for some NLP use, it is not comprehensive. In this paper, we present a substantial extension to...

Taxonomic case-based reasoning is a conversational casebased reasoning methodology that employs feature subsumption taxonomies for incremental case retrieval. Although this approach has several benefits over standard retrieval approaches, methods for automatically acquiring these taxonomies from text documents do not exist, which limits its widespread implementation. To accelerate and simplify ...

In The emergence of language, it is argued that much of what generative linguistics has characterized as ‘rules’ in fact can be derived from domaingeneral cognitive mechanisms. One example of this perspective is Bates & Goodman’s contribution ‘On the emergence of grammar in the lexicon’, which Sabbagh & Gelman say offers ‘...a series of compelling arguments detailing how development and early a...

In general the global pedagogical goal of the creation and use of dictionaries is the mastery of languages. The specific goal is to facilitate the assimilation of basic linguistic concepts: lexicon, sense (meaning), semantic categories, lexico-semantic relations, etc. In this paper, we describe the linguistic concepts that constitute the pedagogical goals to attain, as well as the constructivis...

We investigate the creation of corpora from web-harvested data following a scalable approach that has linear query complexity. Individual web queries are posed for a lexicon that includes thousands of nouns and the retrieved data are aggregated. A lexical network is constructed, in which the lexicon nouns are linked according to their context-based similarity. We introduce the notion of semanti...