Latent semantic analysis (LSA) and transitional probability (TP), two computational methods used to reflect lexical semantic representation from large text corpora, were employed to examine the effects of word predictability on Chinese reading. Participants' eye movements were monitored, and the influence of word complexity (number of strokes), word frequency, and word predictability on differe...

Our study targets interoperable semantic annotation of Cultural Heritage or eHumanities texts in German and Hungarian. A semantic resource we focus on is the Thompson Motif-index of folk-literature (TMI), the labels of which are available only in English. We investigate the use lexical data on the Web in German and Hungarian for supporting semi-automatic translation of TMI: lexical resources of...

Models of bilingual speech production generally assume that translation equivalent lexical nodes share a common semantic representation. Though this type of architecture is highly desirable on both theoretical and empirical grounds, it could create difficulty at the point of lexical selection. If two translation equivalent lexical nodes are activated to roughly equal levels every time that thei...

In this paper, we present a new approach to the syntax and semantics of wh-questions. On the basis of an appropriate type hierarchy whose members model contributions of lexical items to sentence mood, we introduce a head-interrogative schema that licences wh-sentences syntactically and contributes the semantic interrogative operator. This syntactic basis allows the compositional construction of...

One of the reasons for the popularity of dependency approaches in recent computational linguistics is their ability to efficiently derive the core functorargument structure of a sentence as an interface to semantic interpretation. Exploring this feature of dependency structures further, in this paper we show how basic dependency representations can be mapped to semantic representation as used i...

Normally, the tense and aspect systems of natural languages do not coincide and the correct translation of the tense forms needs a semantic analysis of the text or sentence which uses these forms. The problem with semantic representations is that, often, ambiguities cannot be resolved, though a remarkable effort of inferencing has been invested to the effect that the analysis of the source text...