In this paper we present an innovative hybrid Text Classification (TC) system that bridges the gap between statistical and context based techniques. Our algorithm harnesses contextual information at two stages. First it extracts a cohesive set of keywords for each category by using lexical references, implicit context as derived from LSA and wordvicinity driven semantics. And secondly, each doc...

In 2 separate self-paced reading experiments, Farmer, Christiansen, and Monaghan (2006) found that the degree to which a word's phonology is typical of other words in its lexical category influences online processing of nouns and verbs in predictive contexts. Staub, Grant, Clifton, and Rayner (2009) failed to find an effect of phonological typicality when they combined stimuli from the separate...

The cyclic naming paradigm, in which participants are slower to name pictures blocked by semantic category than pictures in an unrelated context, offers a window into the dynamics of the mapping between lexical concepts and words. Here we provide evidence for the view that incremental adjustments to the connection weights from semantics to lexical items provides an elegant explanation of a rang...

We propose a novel algorithm to extract taxonomic (or isa/instanceOf ) relations from category structure by classifying each category link. Previous algorithms mainly focus on lexical patterns of category names to classify whether or not a given category link is an isa/instanceOf. In contrast, our algorithm extracts intrinsic properties that represent the definition of given category name, and ...

The article is devoted to the study of composite rhyming compounds as a means of word formation games. It explores the place of this category of words in the lexical system and peculiarities of their use in the Russian and English languages. Authors of the article represent compound words as a special lexical subgroup. On the specific publicistic material are revealed the peculiarities of compo...

Information about the syntactic category of a word can be derived from a number of complementary sources. We focus here on phonological and distributional cues for distinguishing nouns and verbs that have been proposed as useful for language acquisition. In this paper we assessed the extent to which this information affects lexical processing in adults. We hypothesised that the phonological or ...

In a previous study we have found that non-tone language speakers are able to form lexical tone categories through extracting frequency distribution in training, but only when attention is directed towards the distribution [12]. This study extends the distributional learning literature by investigating how tone language speakers’ linguistic experience with tones affects their distributional lea...

This paper describes a method for automatically extending the lexicon of wide-coverage parsers. The method is an extension to the automatic detection of coverage problems of natural language parsers, based on large amounts of raw text (van Noord 2004). The goal is to extend grammar coverage, focusing in particular on the acquisition of lexical information for missing and incomplete lexicon entr...

The mapping of phonetic information to lexical representations in second-language (L2) listening was examined using an eyetracking paradigm. Japanese listeners followed instructions in English to click on pictures in a display. When instructed to click on a picture of a rocket, they experienced interference when a picture of a locker was present, that is, they tended to look at the locker inste...