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...

The article is devoted to the study of functioning English adjectival emotive units denoting positive semantics as direct linguistic means representing human emotional states that combine semantic and pragmatic components meaning. aim this paper determine features with meaning in modern English. defined approach investigation led use those research methods correspond best its goals: particular,...

Semantic units, meaning words or phrases with their topics and named entities with their specific types, are the basis of the human cognitive system. It can be argued that a large part of semantic units is not just a simple single word. However, most modern NLP applications simply use single word as the basic units to process our language, which may cause the loss of much valuable semantic mean...

Our customisable semantic analysis system implements a form of knowledge acquisition. It automatically extracts syntactic units from a text and semi-automatically assigns semantic information to pairs of units. The user can select the type of units of interest and the list of semantic relations to be assigned. The system examines parse trees to decide if there is interaction between concepts th...

The study on word similarity computation plays an important role in natural language processing (NLP). Recently the algorithm based on HowNet is widely used and proves to work well in Chinese word similarity computation. However, the relationship between the number of brother nodes and the fineness of the hierarchy is not considered. This paper investigates the ratio of two words on the brother...

Multi-word lexical units are a typical feature of specialized dictionaries, in particular monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. The paper studies the concept of the multi-word lexical unit and considers the similarities and differences of their selection and presentation in monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. The work analyses such issues as the classification of multi-w...

The paper deals with a group of Old English lexemes the meaning ʻpowerʼ, namely: wald/weald, mund, rīki/rīce, dōm. use dōm in genre-variegated original texts gives grounds for referring them to semantic field «Law», i.e., very important cluster vocabulary ancient Angles and Saxons. Working words expressing concept «power», authors set goal analyzing nuances that differentiate OE wald, etc., whi...