In this paper, we look at lexical categories and their predictability from a machine learning perspective. Starting from linguistic intuitions about predictability in three different domains, we show how standard techniques for analyzing classification tasks arive at a similar predictability scale. In the second part of the paper, we carry out machine learning experiments covering these domains...

In this article we report on listener categorization of meaningful environmental sounds. A starting point for this study was the phenomenological taxonomy proposed by Gaver (1993b). In the first experimental study, 15 participants classified 60 environmental sounds and indicated the properties shared by the sounds in each class. In a second experimental study, 30 participants classified and des...

The meaning and lexical category of so-called verbal roots is one aspect of the voice systems in Tagalog and other Philippine-type languages which has received little attention in the controversy surrounding the analysis of these systems. It is common to assume that these roots cannot occur without any affixation and that, therefore, they should be considered precategorial. Here it is shown tha...

Metadata registries comprising sets of categories to be used in data collections exist in many fields. The purpose of a metadata registry is to facilitate data exchange and interoperability within a domain, and registries often contain definitions and examples. In this paper we will argue that in order to ensure completeness, consistency, user-friendliness and extensibility, metadata registries...

We present an approach for smoothing treebank-PCFG lexicons by interpolating treebank lexical parameter estimates with estimates obtained from unannotated data via the Inside-outside algorithm. The PCFG has complex lexical categories, making relative-frequency estimates from a treebank very sparse. This kind of smoothing for complex lexical categories results in improved parsing performance, wi...

This article concerns the general functional features of an adjective in modern English, and in particular multistate lexical item “just”, which carries different meanings in different variants of combinatorics. The authors analyze the combinations used with the adjectival lexeme item “just” and reveal the categories that determine the degree of semantic content of each given statement. The nee...

The matter under research is lexical-grammatical categories of adjectives in the modern Crimean Tatar language. Asanova anayzes researches that offer different classification features can be used to determine categories. She discovers qualitative and relative do not constitute independent grammatical Morphological, syntactic structural criteria are important for differentiation between adjectiv...