This paper discusses an approach to augmenting a lexicon for knowledge-based machine translation (KBMT) with information derived from WordNet. The Mikrokosmos project at NMSU's Computing Research Laboratory has concentrated on the creation of the Spanish and Japanese lexicons, so the English lexicon is less developed. We investigated using WordNet as a means to automate portions of the English ...

This paper presents NileULex, which is an Arabic sentiment lexicon containing close to six thousands Arabic words and compound phrases. Forty five percent of the terms and expressions in the lexicon are Egyptian or colloquial while fifty five percent are Modern Standard Arabic. The development of the presented lexicon has taken place over the past two years. While the collection of many of the ...

PURPOSE We sought to identify the core lexicon of a picture-description task using transcripts from the AphasiaBank database and to determine differences in core-lexicon usage between control speakers and persons with aphasia (PWAs). We also investigated the relationship between core lexicon and an established discourse measure, main-concept analysis. METHOD A core lexicon was developed by id...

qeysar aminpour (1959-2007) is one of the outstanding figures in contemporary persian poetry. one of the prominent aspects of his poetic style is the distinct language of his poems in the three areas of lexicon, compositions and syntax. relying on these three areas, this study attempted to investigate the most important linguistic features of his poetry in order to figure out special style of t...

the spreading activation models of mental lexicon's structure have presented the lexicon in multiple layers (semantic- syntactic- phonological). each layer is a network of nodes which are associated by links. the nature of these links is different from layer to layer. the literature for english speakers has shown that in the phonological layer, phonological forms of words have been linked based...

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-speciic translation lexicons.

The aim of this paper is to diagnose the sufficiency first-year pedagogy students’ discoursive competence, considering lexical, reading comprehension and written competences. Whit objective, three instruments were designed adapted, one for each competence: lexical availability test, test rubric evaluate an argumentative writing task. Among main findings, it stands out that highest performance c...