Human Language Technologies (HLT) need dictionaries, to tell them what words mean and how they behave. People making dictionaries (lexicographers) need HLT, to help them identify how words behave so they can make better dictionaries. Thus a potential for synergy exists across the range of lexical data in the construction of headword lists, for spelling correction, phonetics, morphology and synt...

Human Language Technologies (HLT) need dictionaries, to tell them what words mean and how they behave. People making dictionaries (lexicographers) need HLT, to help them identify how words behave so they can make better dictionaries. Thus a potential for synergy exists across the range of lexical data in the construction of headword lists, for spelling correction, phonetics, morphology and synt...

This article presents theory-based model explanations of meaning and compares them with the presented in Dictionary Slovenian Standard Language, third edition , Proverbs Similar Paremiological Expressions – paremiological dictionary contemporary Slovenian. The making is connected particularly a desire to help lexicographers present meanings expressions as uniformly possible. discusses scope gen...

the present writing seeks to explain the concepts of ummas and the ethnic exclusivism in light of the holy scripture and the concept of ummī (illiterate) and ummiyūn, in the holy qur’ān. is the title ummī equivalent to polytheist and idolater or is it applied to the gentile people? similarly, does the prophet muḥammad’s (s.a.w.) being called ummī in the qur’ān concern his being illiterate, or, ...

The traditional notion of word meaning used in natural language processing is literal or lexical meaning as used in dictionaries and lexicons. This relatively objective notion of lexical meaning is different from more subjective notions of emotive or affective meaning. Our aim is to come to grips with subjective aspects of meaning expressed in written texts, such as the attitudes or value expre...