This paper describes a system for morphological tagging and gloss-ing of Sesotho, a southern Bantu language. Sesotho has a rich agglu-tinative morphology, and morphemes cannot be disambiguated on the basis of the bigram or trigram statistics that work so well for languages like English. Our system estimates a simple PCFG for Sesotho clauses from a small hand-annotated corpus in an unsupervised ...

This paper presents the overall methodology that has been used to encode both the Brazilian Portuguese WordNet (WordNet.Br) standard language-independent conceptual-semantic relations (hyponymy, co-hyponymy, meronymy, cause, and entailment) and the so-called cross-lingual conceptual-semantic relations between different wordnets. Accordingly, after contextualizing the project and outlining the c...

Thanks are due to the Institute of the Czech National Corpus and to the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences which kindly provided the data source for this paper. I also wish to thank Denisa Lenertová and the audiences of the Potsdam Workshop on Heterogenity in Linguistic Databases and of the 13th JungslavistInnen-Treffen for discussion, and the editors for their frie...

High-quality lexical resources are needed to both train and evaluate Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) systems. The problem of ambiguity persists even in limited domains, thus the necessity for wide-coverage inventories of senses (dictionaries) and corpora sense-tagged to them. WordNet has been used extensively for WSD, for both its broad coverage and its large network of semantic relations. In t...

The purpose of the study is to investigate dictionary and glossary use pre-service English language teachers while reading on computer. participants were 26 first- second-year at a large Turkish public university. In order explore their clicking gloss-use behavior reading, web page with pop-up window was designed, screen capture tool used record participants' actions. findings suggested that us...

in this paper, efforts are made to compare the safety of steel moment resistant frames designed according to different editions of the iranian code of practice for seismic resistant design of buildings. also, failure risk of a low and medium height frame which designed for high and low seismicity regions according to three editions of the code are evaluated. first, the testing cases were design...

beryllium chemical combination has a considerable effect on the design and fabrication of the241am9be neutron source. in this investigation the beryllium combinations were studied as a generator ofneutrons with various mass percentage, and the neutron yields were also calculated using the results of thealice and srim codes calculations per unit incident charge. the neutron yields of beryllium ...

Many standard definitions of ‘argument’ that recognise an ambiguity between its active and objective senses seek to subsume these in various ways into a single, composite whole. This, it is argued, glosses over the distinction instead exploiting elucidatory potential. Whilst optimistic about prospects theory integration, paper recommends methodology differentiation as first necessary step towar...