This paper presents the automatic extraction of Complex Predicates (CPs) in Bengali with a special focus on compound verbs (Verb + Verb) and conjunct verbs (Noun /Adjective + Verb). The lexical patterns of compound and conjunct verbs are extracted based on the information of shallow morphology and available seed lists of verbs. Lexical scopes of compound and conjunct verbs in consecutive sequen...

Nowadays, Wordnet is used in natural language processing as one of the major linguistic resources. Having such a resource for Persian language helps researchers in computational linguistics and natural language processing fields to develop more accurate systems with higher performances. In this research, we propose a model for semi-automatic construction of Persian wordnet of verbs. Compound ve...

The interaction between language and action systems has become an increasingly interesting topic of discussion in cognitive neuroscience. Several recent studies have shown that processing of action verbs elicits activation in the cerebral motor system in a somatotopic manner. The current study extends these findings to show that the brain responses for processing of verbs with specific motor me...

this study used keyword method during encoding information in transferring information from short term memory to make the retrieval easier. for this purpose, 50 adult female elementary students were chosen to participate in this study. this study required two groups of learners (control and experimental groups). the experimental group enjoyed some special flashcards which each of them involved ...

This paper investigates the syntactic and semantic properties of counterfactual attitude verbs in Taiwanese Southern Min, showing the differences between this type of attitude verbs and those discussed by Anand and Hacquard (2013). I propose that the semantics of counterfactual attitude verbs is composed of two components, a doxastic assertion and a counterfactual felicity condition, the former...

Neuroimaging and lesion studies suggest that processing of word classes, such as verbs and nouns, is associated with distinct neural mechanisms. Such studies also suggest that subcategories within these broad word class categories are differentially processed in the brain. Within the class of verbs, argument structure provides one linguistic dimension that distinguishes among verb exemplars, wi...

We investigated how the semantic properties of verbs influence the way in which language users process sentences and how well they remember the verb. In particular, our study focused on the frequency of motion repetition, that is, how many times actions generally repeat in a row. The experimental sentences contained action verbs, such as sneezing, knocking on a door, clapping, and bouncing a ba...

The goal of this system is to provide a measure of semantic similarity between any two verbs. The VerbOcean dataset contains various semantic relationships for a set of 3477 unique verbs. The pairwise relationships between verbs contained in VerbOcean were used to create a graph of semantic relations between many verbs. A tree traversal algorithm was implemented so that, given a starting word a...