This article tackles the problem of performing multilingual polarity classification on Twitter, comparing three techniques: (1) a multilingual model trained on a multilingual dataset, obtained by fusing existing monolingual resources, that does not need any language recognition step, (2) a dual monolingual model with perfect language detection on monolingual texts and (3) a monolingual model th...

During a quarter of a century of existence and in spite of much criticism, wordnets have thoroughly proved their appropriateness as repositories of linguistic knowledge and their usefulness in various applications. In this paper we present the methodology of creating the Romanian wordnet (RoWN), with special emphasis on the strategies adopted during ten years of ceaseless implementation and whi...

Times have changed over the last ten years in terms of dictionary production. With the introduction of digital support and networking, the lifespan of dictionaries has been considerably extended. The dictionary manuscript has become a unique data-source that can be reused and manipulated many times by numerous in-house and external experts. The traditional relationship between author, publisher...

Lexicography has long faced the challenge of having too few specialists to document too many words in too many languages with too many linguistic features. Great dictionaries are invariably the product of many person-years of labor, whether the lifetime work of an individual or the lengthy collaboration of a team. Is it possible to use public contributions to vastly reduce the time and cost of ...

This work shows how to improve state-of-the-art monolingual natural language processing models using unannotated bilingual text. We build a multiview learning objective that enforces agreement between monolingual and bilingual models. In our method the first, monolingual view consists of supervised predictors learned separately for each language. The second, bilingual view consists of log-linea...

Previous studies indicate that the discrimination of native phonetic contrasts in infants exposed to two languages from birth follows a different developmental time course from that observed in monolingual infants. We compared infant discrimination of dental (French) and alveolar (English) place variants of /d/ in three groups differing in language experience. At 6-8 months, infants in all thre...

presenting a brief description of bilingualism and its correlation with cognitive development and 3rd language learning, the present research primarily aims to compare the knowledge of english vocabulary and grammar in a sample of monolingual and bilingual high school students (fourth graders) of fars and khuzestan provinces in iran. to fulfill this objective, 448 monolingual and bilingual stud...