ion over Parts of Speech. Lexical units are grouped into frames irrespective of their parts of speech. This allows to easily map, e. g., two text fragments onto each other that carry essentially the same meaning, but where one is headed by a verb and the other by a noun, such as ‘A bought B’ vs. ‘(the) acquisition of B by A’. In GermaNet, this mapping requires additional knowledge in the form o...

In this paper we argue why it is necessary to associate linguistic information with ontologies and why more expressive models, beyond RDFS, OWL and SKOS, are needed to capture the relation between natural language constructs on the one hand and ontological entities on the other. We argue that in the light of tasks such as ontology-based information extraction, ontology learning and population f...

This paper describes TEXTSIM, a system for determining the similarity between texts. Further, we show the results of a comparison between two various configurations of TEXTSIM; one with and one without any deeper linguistic analysis. To evaluate and compare the two models of TEXTSIM we used two sets of examples: a set of automatically generated examples and a set of examples acquired from two a...

Abstract Linguistic research refers to many related accents in Southeast England: Standard Southern British English (SSBE), Received Pronunciation (RP), Estuary (EE), Cockney and Multicultural London (MLE). However, there is inconsistency imprecision the demarcation of these based on linguistic social factors. This paper delineates England patterns co-variation which we then relate predictors. ...

Characterization of Children's Decision Making: Sensitivity to Punishment Frequency, Not Task Complexity Eveline A. Crone a d , Silvia A. Bunge a b , Heleen Latenstein c & Maurits W. van der Molen c a Center for Mind and Brain, University of California , Davis, USA b Department of Psychology , University of California , Davis, USA c Department of Psychology , University of Amsterdam , the Nethe...

Parallel grammars and parallel treebanks can be a useful method for studying linguistic diversity and commonality. We use this approach to study how arguments to similar predicates are realized across languages. To that end, we formulate formal principles for aligning at phrase and word levels based on translational correspondences at predicate-argument level. A first version of a new tool for ...

Implementations of models of morphologically rich languages such as Arabic typically achieve speed and small memory footprint at the cost of abandoning linguistically abstract and elegant representations. We present a solution to modeling rich morphologies that is both fast and based on linguistically rich representations. In our approach, we convert a linguistically complex and abstract implem...