The paper is focused on classes of lexical units which arise as a result of derivational processes – word formation and semantic transfers, acting either in isolation or together, on the basis of common semantic foundations that bind targets and sources of derivation. The lexical items which constitute the classes under study vary in their denotative characteristics and due to their categ...

Traditional language models rely on lexical units that are de ned as entities separated from each other by word boundary markers. Since there are no such boundaries in Thai, alternative de nitions of lexical units have to be pursued. The problem is to nd the optimal set of lexical units that constitutes the vocabulary of the language model and yields the best nal result. The word is a tradition...

Previous studies have suggested that children and adults form cognitive representations of co-occurring word sequences. We propose (1) that the formation of such multi-word unit (MWU) representations precedes and facilitates the formation of single-word representations in children and thus benefits word learning, and (2) that MWU representations facilitate adult word recognition and thus benefi...

This paper presents the application of a multi-scale paradigm to Chinese spoken document retrieval (SDR) for improving retrieval performance. Multi-scale refers to the use of both words and subwords for retrieval. Words are basic units in a language that carry lexical meaning and subword units (such as phonemes, syllables or characters) are building components for words. Retrieval using subword...

Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika 2022 ('Dictionary of the Slovenian Standard Language 2022') contains a modern linguistic description multifaceted and complex reality language based on use as reflected in diverse resources, primarily corpora. A total 489 dictionary entries introduced by single-word headwords offers wholesome systematic semantic, grammatical, pragmatic other characteristics m...

The importance and role of multi-word expressions (MWE) in the description and processing of natural language has been long recognized. However, multi-word information has often been relegated to the marginal role of idiosyncratic lexical information. The need for MWE lexicons grows even more acute for multi-lingual applications, for which (sometimes complex) correspondences must be identified,...

This paper discusses such issues as the format under which lexical units are stored in memory, the way in which inflection and derivation interact, and the definition of morphological units, such as stem, root, word form, etc. More largely, two competing models of morphological competence, a “units-plusrules” model and a global model based on analogy, are discussed. The main focus is on nouns a...

Natural languages contain many multi-word sequences that do not display the variety of syntactic processes we would expect given their phrase type, and consequently must be included in the lexicon as multiword units. This paper describes a method for identifying such items in corpora, focussing on English verb-noun combinations. In an evaluation using a set of dictionary-published MWEs we show ...

When NooJ performs an automatic lexical analysis of corpora, it recognizes five types of atomic linguistic units (ALUs) and represents them as annotations stored inside each text’s annotation structure (TAS). Unfortunately, the massive level of ambiguities generated by each of the five corresponding parsers produces a TAS far too heavy for most corpus linguistics applications. In consequence, m...