Wikipedia categories are a useful source of knowledge that is usually expressed in a noun-phrase that contains information about concepts of entities or relations among entities. In DBpedia KBs, they categorize their entities into Wikipedia categories using RDF triples. The RDF triples represent only categories of entities, but not concepts of entities or relations among entities despite the fa...

Previous research has demonstrated categorical perception (CP) of facial expressions from American Sign Language (ASL) in hearing, English-speaking non-signers. Notably, CP was observed even for faces with no obvious linguistic labels in English, suggesting the existence of covert categories based on nonlinguistic facial properties. However, in the earlier work, CP was assessed using memory pro...

PURPOSE This article discusses a novel approach for treatment of lexical retrieval deficits in aphasia in which treatment begins with complex, rather than simple, lexical stimuli. This treatment considers the semantic complexity of items within semantic categories, with a focus on their featural detail. Method and Results Previous work on training items within animate categories (S. Kiran & C. ...

This paper is devoted to a problem of lexical semantics, discussing various aspects gravitating around two distinct meanings of the terms “predicative” and/or “predicational” in some important and/or of particular interest linguistic approaches, trying to build a unitary mosaic image from “rocks” representing apparently disconnected examined viewpoints on the issue. The first meaning of the two...

This study investigates the multimodal implementation of prosodic-phonological categories, asking whether accentual fall and following rise in Swedish word accents (Accent 1, Accent 2) are varied as a function accompanying head eyebrow gestures. Our purpose is to evaluate hypothesis that prominence production displays cumulative relation between acoustic kinematic dimensions spoken language, es...

The article focuses on the peculiarities of lexical synonymy in Eastern steppe dialects based material one lexical-semantic group – common names clothes. source research is factual recorded from dialect speakers different age categories at end 20th and beginning 21st centuries settlements Donetsk region. Lexical doubletness (or absolute synonyms) defined as most type synonymous relations segmen...

Lexical ambiguity is an important source of inefficiency for wide-coverage HPSG parsing. In this paper, we propose a lexical analysis filter which removes unlikely lexical categories. The filter is implemented as a straightforward HMM n-gram POS-tagger, which computes the ’a posteriori’ probability of each lexical category. A lexical category is removed if a competing lexical category is suffic...

The article discusses a linguistic analysis of one the main fragments meteorological vocabulary modern Russian language – names atmospheric precipitation. material for study was units lexical-semantic group "precipitation", previously identified in Hydrometeorological Encyclopedia (2009). Three groups nouns were distinguished: common word precipitation itself and its synonym hydrometeors, liqui...

This Master's Thesis concerns research in the automatic analysis of the sub-lexical structure of English words. Sub-lexical structure includes linguistic categories such as syllabification, stress, phonemic representation, phonetics, and spelling. This information could be very useful in all sorts of speech applications, including duration modeling and speech recognition. ANGIE is a system that...