Recent studies have shown that the involvement of semantic information in visual lexical decision depends on the nature of nonword foils with semantic effects increased as nonwords become more word-like (Evans, Lambon Ralph &Woollams, 2012). Given that most models of lexical decision focus on orthographic information (Coltheart, Rastle, Perry, Langdon & Ziegler, 2001; Grainger & Jacobs, 1996; S...

Whether verbs have to be marked as punctual vs. durative has been a controversial issue from the very beginnings of research on aktionsarten in the last century right on up to modern theories of aspectual classes and aspect composition. Debates about the linguistic necessity of this distinction have often been accompanied by the question of what it means for a verb to be temporally punctual. In...

Product feature mining is a key subtask in fine-grained opinion mining. Previous works often use syntax constituents in this task. However, syntax-based methods can only use discrete contextual information, which may suffer from data sparsity. This paper proposes a novel product feature mining method which leverages lexical and contextual semantic clues. Lexical semantic clue verifies whether a...

Lexical and dynamic scoping are the two primary approaches to variable binding in functional programming languages. While medieval Lisp dialects commonly featured dynamic scoping, most languages today emphasize lexical scoping. This is a sensible choice: lexical scoping enables local reasoning about programs at the source code level. Nonetheless, dynamic variables are more appropriate for certa...

Modern context-free grammars, especially featured ones, can achieve reasonably high accuracy rates in parsing. However, because any CFG that can handle any substantial chunk of a language must contain a very large number of rules, some of which will match in unintended ways, parsers suffer from an overload of parses: there are so many possible parses that the parser must prune away unlikely par...

The domain of operating system reference manuals uses linguistic constructs that are difficult to process since many terms are similar and most concepts are abstract software engineering constructs. The SIFT system for automatic test generation from these documents uses a natural-languagebased formalism for software domain models. The formalism is based on the generative lexicon framework (Pust...