Whereas multilingual comparable corpora have been used to identify translations of words or terms, monolingual corpora can help identify paraphrases. The present work addresses paraphrases found between two different discourse types: specialized and lay texts. We therefore built comparable corpora of specialized and lay texts in order to detect equivalent lay and specialized expressions. We ide...

Nominalization is a very universal phenomenon in English written language as well as other languages. It has compact relations with written texts that it becomes one of important components in the formal style writing such as technical writing or legal writing. However, this does not mean that we should use as many nominalizations as possible in formal written texts. Overuse of nominalization i...

Abstract The aim of this study was to explore the use nominalizations in segmented abstracts, examining their distribution and characteristics whether they differ from traditional non-segmented abstracts terms nominalizations. adopted a corpus-based approach, querying nominalization tokens using suffixes nominalization, analyse different sections 30 research articles American Journal Psychiatry...

We discuss nominalizations in Portuguese formed by the suffix -ura. We have done a corpus-based description of the behavior of these nominals and proposed a type ontology to categorize them. In order to offer a rich description, we also tested all words formed by -ura in co-predication contexts to check if their types could be co-predicated. Although our main goal was to produce a corpus-based ...

Based on linguistic generalizations, we enhanced an existing semantic processor, SemRep, for effective interpretation of a wide range of patterns used to express arguments of nominalization in clinically oriented biomedical text. Nominalizations are pervasive in the scientific literature, yet few text mining systems adequately address them, thus missing a wealth of information. We evaluated the...