In this paper we describe a proof-of-concept for the bootstrapping of a Persian WordNet. This effort was motivated by previous work done at Stanford University on bootstrapping an Arabic WordNet using a parallel corpus and an English WordNet. The principle of that work is based on the premise that paradigmatic relations are by nature deeply semantic, and as such, are likely to remain intact bet...

This article reports the results of an analysis of translation equivalents in six languages from different language families, extracted from an on-line parallel corpus of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. The goal is to determine sense distinctions that can be used to automatically sense-tag the data. Our results show that sense distinctions derived from crosslingual information correspond ...

Propaganda and surveillance are pervasive in contemporary society. Extensive literatures have developed around each. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is an important point of reference in both literatures. Orwell takes both propaganda and surveillance to extreme limits: total surveillance and total propaganda. Writing them large he brings important aspects of each into sharp relief, which i...

To investigate why 3-year-olds have difficulty in switching sorting dimensions, children of 3 and 4 years were tested in one of four conditions on Zelazo’s card sort task: standard, sleeve, label and face-up. In the standard condition, children were required to sort blue-truck and red-star cards under either a blue-star or red-truck model card, first by color or shape, and then by the other dim...

The paper presents the third edition of the MULTEXT-East language resources, a multilingual dataset for language engineering research and development. This standardised and linked set of resources covers a large number of mainly Central and Eastern European languages and includes the EAGLES-based morphosyntactic specifications, defining the features that describe word-level syntactic annotation...

The paper reports on a series of experiments conducted in order to test the feasibility of automatically generating synsets for Slovene wordnet. The resources used were the multilingual parallel corpus of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and wordnets for several languages. First, the corpus was word-aligned to obtain multilingual lexicons and then these lexicons were compared to the wordnet...

Used as a noun, the term refers to a short summary or outline of a longer work. As an adjective applied to writing or literary works, abstract refers to words or phrases that name things not knowable through the five senses. Allegory: A narrative technique in which characters representing objects or abstract ideas are used to convey a message or teach a lesson. Allegory is typically used to tea...