Priming effects have been well documented in behavioral psycholinguistics experiments: The processing of a word or a sentence is typically facilitated when it shares lexico-semantic or syntactic features with a previously encountered stimulus. Here, we used fMRI priming to investigate which brain areas show adaptation to the repetition of a sentence's content or syntax. Participants read or lis...

DRAMATICS TRANSLATION: LEXICO-SEMANTIC ASPECT

In this paper we describe an implemented framework for developing monolingual or multilingual natural language generation (NLG) applications and machine translation (MT) applications. The framework demonstrates a uniform approach to generation and transfer based on declarative lexico-structural transformations of dependency structures of syntactic or conceptual levels ("uniform lexico-structura...

We present an open-domain QuestionAnswering system that learns to answer questions based on successful past interactions. We follow a pattern-based approach to Answer Extraction, where (lexico-syntactic) patterns that relate a question to its answer are automatically learned and used to answer future questions. Results show that our approach contributes to the system’s best performance when it ...

Résumé. Nous présentons la méthode INSYSE (Interface Syntaxe SEmantique) pour l’annotation de documents textuels. Notre objectif est de construire des annotations sémantiques de ces résumés pour interroger le corpus sur la fonction des gènes et leurs relations de causalité avec certaines maladies. Notre approche est semi-automatique, centrée sur (1) l’extraction d’informations lexico-syntaxique...

second language  learners often develop grammatical competence in the absence of concomitant pragmatic competence (kasper & roever, 2005) and the exact nature of the relationship between the two competences is still indistinct and in need of inquiries ( bardovi-harlig, 1999; khatib & ahmadisafa, 2011). this study is a partial attempt to address the lacuna and aims to see if any relation...

Causal relations of various kinds are a pervasive feature of human language and theorising about the world. Despite this, the specification of a satisfactory general analysis of causal relations has long proved difficult. This paper provides a syntactic and semantic classification of cause-effect lexico-syntactic patterns for automatic detection and extraction of causation relationships in Engl...

Integrating concept and citation networks on a specific research subject can help researchers focus their own work or use methods described in prior works. In this paper, we propose a method to extract semantic relations from concepts and citation in the descriptions of related work. Specifically, we examined (i) topic-paper relations between research topics and reference papers and (ii) method...

The aim of this work is to nd sub-typed Geographic Named Entities from the analysis of relations between Place Names surrounded nominal group within a speci c phrasal context in a set of textual documents. The paper presents a method involving natural language processing and heterogeneous resources like gazetteers, thesauri or ontologies. The work and the results focus a French language corpus....