In this paper, we present a computational approach to bilingual speakers’ non-native (L2) lexical-semantic representations. Specifically, based on detailed analyses of the error patterns shown in our previous simulation results ( Zhao and Li Int. J. Bilingual. Educ. Bilingual., 2010, 13, 505–524 ; Li, Bilingualism, 2013, 16, 288–303 ), aim at revealing underlying learning factors that may affec...

Abstract Loanwords are lexical terms borrowed from foreign languages by transliterating the original sound of words with recipient language’s consonants and vowels. This paper focuses on borrowing in Korean language a diachronic perspective. Based approximately 9,500 loanwords extracted corpus women’s magazine articles residential sections (the Contemporary Residential Culture Corpus), we inves...

It is a much-debated issue whether one should assume separate lexical entries for participles used in passive and perfect constructions or whether there is just one lexical entry that is used in different ways depending on whether a passive or perfect auxiliary is present in the clause. In previous work I criticized approaches trying to analyze the passive with one lexical entry for making empi...

Lexical selection is of great importance to statistical machine translation. In this paper, we propose a graph-based framework for collective lexical selection. The framework is established on a translation graph that captures not only local associations between source-side content words and their target translations but also targetside global dependencies in terms of relatedness among target i...

This paper describes research into the use of lexical chains to build effective Topic Tracking systems and compares the performance with a simple keyword-based approach. Lexical chaining is a method of grouping lexically related terms into so called lexical chains, using simple natural language processing techniques. Topic tracking involves tracking a given news event in a stream of news storie...

In this paper, we present an innovative chart mining technique for improving parse coverage based on partial parse outputs from precision grammars. The general approach of mining features from partial analyses is applicable to a range of lexical acquisition tasks, and is particularly suited to domain-specific lexical tuning and lexical acquisition using lowcoverage grammars. As an illustration ...

This paper shows how DATR, a widely used formal language for lexical knowledge representation, can be used to de ne an LTAG lexicon as an inheritance hierarchy with internal lexical rules. A bottom-up featural encoding is used for LTAG trees and this allows lexical rules to be implemented as covariation constraints within feature structures. Such an approach eliminates the considerable redundan...

WE OFFER A COMPUTATIONAL MODEL OF GAZE PLANNING DURING READING THAT CONSISTS OF TWO MAIN COMPONENTS: a lexical representation network, acquiring lexical representations from input texts (a subset of the Italian CHILDES database), and a gaze planner, designed to recognize written words by mapping strings of characters onto lexical representations. The model implements an active sensing strategy ...