This paper deals with the exploitation of dictionaries for the semi-automatic construction of lexicons and lexical knowledge bases. The final goal of our research is to enrich the Basque Lexical Database with semantic information such as senses, definitions, semantic relations, etc., extracted from a Basque monolingual dictionary. The work here presented focuses on the extraction of the semanti...

The present study aimed at investigating whether vocabulary-learning strategies had any impact on the vocabulary learning of Iranian EFL learners. The participants of the study were 67 male and female undergraduate university students, majoring in English Translation and English Literature at Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch, who were taking “Reading Comprehension II” course. In ord...

The work is based on the assumption that words with similar syntactic usage have similar meaning, which was proposed by Zellig S. Harris (1954,1968). We study his assumption from two aspects: firstly, different meanings (word senses) of a word should manifest themselves in different usages (contexts), and secondly, similar usages (contexts) should lead to similar meanings (word senses). If we s...

Bilingual dictionaries can be automatically generated using the GIZA++ tool. However, these dictionaries contain a lot of noise, because of which the qualities of outputs of tools relying on the dictionaries are negatively affected. In this work, we present three different methods for cleaning noise from automatically generated bilingual dictionaries: LLR, pivot and transliteration based approa...

This paper introduces the possible usages, benefits, and challenges involved in the use of domain-specific monolingual parallel corpora in determining textual entailment (TE). A system that finds entailing text for a given statement is to be developed using monolingual parallel translations of the Bible as corpus as this is one of the most accessible monolingual parallel corpora. Different exis...

We document the creation of a new set of OpenMath content dictionaries to support the expression of quantities and units under the International System of Units (SI). While preserving many of the concepts embodied in the original content dictionaries, these new content dictionaries provide a foundation for quantities and units that is compliant with international standards. We respond to questi...