There is general agreement that perisylvian language cortex plays a major role in lexical and semantic processing; but the contribution of additional, more widespread, brain areas in the processing of different semantic word categories remains controversial. We investigated word processing in two groups of patients whose neurodegenerative diseases preferentially affect specific parts of the bra...

In the course of The Preposition Project, FrameNet sentences are used as instances to characteize preposition behavior. FrameNet sentences containing prepositional phrases beginning with a given preposition are presented to a lexicographer, whereupon the given preposition is tagged with a sense from a sense inventory derived from the Oxford Dictionary of English. For the 34 prepositions used in...

In this report, we present an account of the semantics of the English temporal prepositions. The approach taken here stresses the limited range of expressive possibilities afforded by these words, and pays particular attention to the irregular interactions they exhibit with verb-tense and -aspect. A framework is developed within which the semantics of English temporal expressions can be couched...

In recent years, we have witnessed the concomitant rise of communicative and contextualised approaches as well as the paradigmatic development of the Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) framework in analyzing language learning. The focus of MALL research has gradually shifted from content-based (delivery of learning content through mobile devices) to design-oriented (authentic and/or socia...

A [(15)O]water PET experiment was conducted to investigate the neural regions engaged in processing constructions unique to signed languages: classifier predicates in which the position of the hands in signing space schematically represents spatial relations among objects. Ten deaf native signers viewed line drawings depicting a spatial relation between two objects (e.g., a cup on a table) and ...

In this paper, a retrieval-based caption generation system that searches the web for suitable image descriptions is studied. Google’s search-by-image is used to find potentially relevant web multimedia content for query images. Sentences are extracted from web pages and the likelihood of the descriptions is computed to select one sentence from the retrieved text documents. The search mechanism ...