This paper introduces the state-of-the-art MT evaluation survey that contains both manual and automatic evaluation methods. The traditional human evaluation criteria mainly include the intelligibility, fidelity, fluency, adequacy, comprehension, and informativeness. We classify the automatic evaluation methods into two categories, including lexical similarity and linguistic features application...

Two problematic issues in most lexicon systems today are their size and restricted domain of use. In this paper, we introduce a new approach to lexical organization that leads to more compact and flexible lexicons. The lexical entries are conceptual/phonological frames rather than word entries, and a number of expansion rules are used to generate entries of actual words from these frames. A sin...

This work investigates query translation using only Wikipedia-based resources in a two step approach: analysis and disambiguation. After arguing that data mined from Wikipedia is particularly relevant to query translation, both from a lexical and a semantic perspective, we detail the implementation of the approach. In the analysis phase, lexical units are extracted from queries and associated t...

one of the main dichotomies in syntactic analyses deals with the distinction between lexical and functional categories. functional categories gain in stature as the generative grammar moves ahead. they come into play in explaining the derivation stages of phrases and sentences. the present study critically evaluates different approaches to the role and function of one of these functional catego...

Infants are highly sensitive to statistical patterns in their auditory language input that mark word categories (e.g., noun and verb). However, it is unknown whether experience with these cues facilitates the acquisition of semantic properties of word categories. In a study testing this hypothesis, infants first listened to an artificial language in which word categories were reliably distingui...

Children learn a robust representation of lexical categories at a young age. We propose an incremental model of this process which efficiently groups words into lexical categories based on their local context using an information-theoretic criterion. We train our model on a corpus of childdirected speech from CHILDES and show that the model learns a fine-grained set of intuitive word categories...

Most morphological theories assume that a morphological change affects the meaning of a lexical item or indicates a specific relationship of the lexical item to some other lexical items in the utterance. Moreover, for item and arrangement morphology, most theories assume that a given morphological change may have only one lexical category in its scope. Most theories do not envision the existenc...

In this paper we present an innovative hybrid Text Classification (TC) system that bridges the gap between statistical and context based techniques. Our algorithm harnesses contextual information at two stages. First it extracts a cohesive set of keywords for each category by using lexical references, implicit context as derived from LSA and wordvicinity driven semantics. And secondly, each doc...

The current research investigated the relation of categorization and production using imitation and production paradigm. More specifically, the imitation and production responses of this experiment were analyzed in order to find out individual speaker differences in lexical pitch accent categories of North Kyungsang Korean. A significant number of imitation and production responses favoured the...