2 Abstract A series of experiments investigated whether naming latencies for homophones (e.g., /nΛn/) are a function of specific-word frequency (i.e., the frequency of nun) or a function of cumulative-homophone frequency (i.e., the sum of the frequencies of nun and none). Specific-word but not cumulative-homophone frequency affected picture-naming latencies. This result was obtained in two lang...

This paper presents a method to create WordNet-like lexical resources for different languages. Instead of directly translating glosses from one language to another, we perform first semantic parsing of WordNet glosses and then translate the resulting semantic representation. The proposed approach simplifies the machine translation of the glosses. The approach provides ready to use semantic repr...

The paperpresents a computationally tractable application of Bulgarian pronouns representation using Universal Networking Language (UNL) formalism. It analyses grammar features of pronouns and offers a model of their formal representation based on incorporation of grammar, semantic and lexical knowledge by using standard UNL knowledge representation mechanisms. Also a comparison of different ap...

In order to train machines to ‘understand’ natural language, we propose a meaning representation mechanism called E-HowNet to encode lexical senses. In this paper, we take interrogatives as examples to demonstrate the mechanisms of semantic representation and composition of interrogative constructions under the framework of E-HowNet. We classify the interrogative words into five classes accordi...

The Abstract Much effort has been put into computational lexicons over tile years, and most systems give much room to (lexical) semantic data. However, in these systems, the effort put on tile study and representation of lexical items to express the umterlying continuum existing in 1) language vagueness and polysemy, and 2) language gaps and mismatches, has remained embryonic. A sense enumerati...

In this work, we present an approach for semantically based search for similar segments of a speech task, i.e., the search for audio segments in a row audio repository that are semantically related to the audio segment given by a user. Our approach is based on the lexical representation of segments of words that are enriched by semantic relations. We have studied different distance measures and...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the mental representation of cognate and noncognate translation pairs in languages with different scripts to test the prediction of dual lexicon model (gollan, forster, & frost, 1997). two groups of persian-speaking english language learners were tested on cognate and noncognate translation pairs in persian-english and english-persian directions ...

The purpose of designing the lexical semantic representation model E-HowNet is for natural language understanding. E-HowNet is a frame-based entity-relation model extended from HowNet to define lexical senses and achieving compositional semantics. The followings are major extension features of E-HowNet to achieve the goal. a) Word senses (concepts) are defined by either primitives or any well-d...