This paper investigates the impact on French dependency parsing of lexical generalization methods beyond lemmatization and morphological analysis. A distributional thesaurus is created from a large text corpus and used for distributional clustering and WordNet automatic sense ranking. The standard approach for lexical generalization in parsing is to map a word to a single generalized class, eit...

Pragmatics is the study of how people exchange meanings through the use of language. In this paper we describe our experience with regard to texts belonging to a large contemporary corpus of written language, in order to verify the uses, changes and flexibility of the meaning of Proper Names (PN). As a matter of fact, while building the lexical semantic database ItalWordNet (IWN), a considerabl...

In this paper we present new approach to lexical analysis in the Synt parser. We describe three fast lexical analyzers we have exploited for lexical analysis and advantages of the re2c fast lexical analyzer in comparison to others. This paper shows a new lexical analysis workflow which is both easy to maintain and portable to new languages. Finally we provide an evaluation of the new lexical an...

Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is generated by heterogenous ‘information communities’ that co-operate to produce reusable units of geographic knowledge. A consensual lexicon is a key factor to enable this open production model. Lexical definitions help demarcate the boundaries of terms, forming a thin semantic ground on which knowledge can travel. In VGI, lexical definitions often app...

We introduce a new approach for manually constructing broad-coverage lexical ressources based on a specific type of lexical network called lexical system. Drawing on experience gained from the construction of the French Lexical Network (fr-LN), we begin by formally characterizing lexical systems as “small-world” graphs of lexical units that are primarily organized around the system of Meaning-T...

using a critical discourse analytic model of translation criticism, the present study attempts to explore the effect of ideology and idiosyncrasy on the lexical choices in translation studies. the study employed a descriptive approach to answer two research questions: is there any relationship between ideology and idiosyncratic features of translators' lexical choices? and if yes, can it be ana...

this study is carried out to shed light on one of the lexical problems affecting the performance of translators while attempting to translate from an original text into a target language (in present study, from french to persian). polysemy is one of the well identified semantic problems. the words possess different meanings and significations according to the situation and the context in which ...

We present the data structure of a lexical resource—the French Lexical Network (FLN)—, that is being hand-crafted using a knowledge-based lexicographic editor. The FLN is formally a lexical graph whose structuring is mainly supported by the system of paradigmatic and syntagmatic lexical functions of the Meaning-Text linguistic approach. Section 1 offers a general characterization of the FLN. Se...

This paper investigates a special type of recurrent expressions, lexical bundles, defined as a sequence of three or more words that co-occur frequently in a particular register (Biber et al., 1999). Considering the importance of this group of multi-word sequences in academic prose, this study explores the forms and syntactic structures of three- and four-word bundles in English abstracts writte...