We discuss an automatic method for the construction of hypertext links within and between newspaper articles. The method comprises three steps: determining the lexical chains in a text, building links between the paragraphs of articles, and building links between articles. Lexical chains capture the semantic relations between words that occur throughout a text. Each chain is a set of related wo...

The use of lexical resources in linguistic analysis has expanded rapidly in recent years. However, most lexical resources, such as WordNet or online dictionaries, at this point do not usually indicate figurative meanings, such as conceptual metaphors, as part of a lexical entry. Studies that attempt to establish the relationships between literal and figurative language by detecting the connecti...

We discuss an automatic method for the construction of hypertext links within and between newspaper articles. The method comprises three steps: determining the lexical chains in a text, building links between the paragraphs of articles, and building links between articles. Lexical chains capture the semantic relations between words that occur throughout a text. Each chain is a set of related wo...

Lexical Attraction Models (LAMs) were first introduced by Deniz Yuret in (Yuret 1998) to exemplify how an algorithm can learn word dependencies from raw text. His general thesis is that lexical attraction is the likelihood of a syntactic relation. However, the lexical attraction acquisition algorithm from (Yuret 1998) does not take into account the morpho-syntactical information provided by a p...

Servicization of language resources in a Web-based environment has opened up the potential for dynamically combined virtual lexical resources. Evolving lexical linked data could be realized, provided being recovered/discovered links among lexical resources are properly organized and maintained. This position paper examines a scenario, in which lexical semantic resources are cross-linguistically...

1. HARD track The main theme in our participation in this year's HARD track was experimentation with the effect of lexical cohesion on document retrieval. Lexical cohesion is a major characteristic of natural language texts, which is achieved through semantic connectedness between words in text, and expresses continuity between the parts of text [7]. Segments of text which are about the same or...

ETAP-3 is a system of machine translation consisting of various types of rules and dictionaries. Those dictionaries, being created especially for NLP system, provide for every lexeme not only data about its characteristics as a separate item, but also different types of information about its syntactic and semantic links to other lexemes. The paper shows how the information about certain types o...

Are compound words represented as unitary lexical units, or as individual constituents that are processed combinatorially? We investigated the neuro-cognitive processing of compounds using EEG and a passive-listening oddball design in which lexical access and combinatorial processing elicit dissociating Mismatch Negativity (MMN) brain-response patterns. MMN amplitude varied with compound freque...