This paper presents a statistical decision procedure for lexical ambiguity resolution. The algorithm exploits both local syntactic patterns and more distant collocational evidence, generating an efficient, effective, and highly perspicuous recipe for resolving a given ambiguity. By identifying and utilizing only the single best disambiguating evidence in a target context, the algorithm avoids t...

The paper describes the FidaPLUS corpus which is an upgrade of the Slovenian reference corpus. The corpus has been improved on various levels: size, up-todateness, quality of linguistic annotation (lemmatization, POS-tagging), availability and user-friendliness of the on-line concordancer. It has also been implemented in the Sketch Engine software which produces one-page automatic, corpus-based...

This tutorial presents a corpus-driven, pattern-based empirical approach to meaning representation and computation. Patterns in text are everywhere, but techniques for identifying and processing them are still rudimentary. Patterns are not merely syntactic but syntagmatic: each pattern identifies a lexico-semantic clause structure consisting of a predicator (verb or predicative adjective) toget...

Multiword expressions as they appear as nominal compounds, collocational forms, and idioms are now leveraged in educational technology in assessment and instruction contexts. The talk will focus on how multiword expression identification is used in different kinds of educational applications, including automated essay evaluation, and teacher professional development in curriculum development fo...

Metaphor is a pervasive phenomenon in natural language. This paper focuses on metaphor identification. Based on the linguistic definition, an improved classification system of Chinese metaphors is presented, classifying metaphorical language into two categories: referential metaphor with ten subclasses and collocational metaphor with five subclasses. Furthermore, a novel pattern matching algori...

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Auditory and acoustic data are presented to document some tonologically challenging aspects of the seven tones of Wénchéng, a south-west Oujiang Wu dialect of Chinese. Tones are described both in isolation form and in selected lexical tone sandhi combinations. It is shown how the complexity of the tonal system results in clashes between tonological representation and phonetic reality.