chology and, therefore, a chapter on the topic must be selective. This chapter will first place the relevant issues in a historical context and then review the basic visual word recognition phenomena within the context of current models. It will then be argued that any successful model of visual word recognition needs to incorporate the assumption of “interactivity,” that is, that the various c...

This paper presents a semi-automatic method for identifying terms that evoke semantic frames (Fillmore, 1982). The method is tested as a means of identifying lexical units that can be added to existing frames or to new, related frames, using a large corpus on the environment. It is hypothesized that a method based on distributional semantics, which exploits the assumption that words that appear...

We present a framework for learning a pronunciation lexicon for an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system from multiple utterances of the same training words, where the lexical identities of the words are unknown. Instead of only trying to learn pronunciations for known words we go one step further and try to learn both spelling and pronunciation in a joint optimization. Decoding based on li...

The paper presents an approach to building a very large emotive lexicon for Polish based on plWordNet. An expanded annotation model is discussed, in which lexical units (word senses) are annotated with basic emotions, fundamental human values and sentiment polarisation. The annotation process is performed manually in the 2+1 scheme by pairs of linguists and psychologies. Guidelines referring to...

EDBL (Euskararen Datu-Base Lexikala) is a general-purpose lexical database used in Basque text-processing tasks. It is a large repository of lexical knowledge (currently around 80,000 entries) that acts as basis and support in a number of different NLP tasks, thus providing lexical information for several language tools: morphological analysis, spell checking and correction, lemmatization and t...

1 Introduction The balance between storage and computation of complex words is a major point of departure both for theories of lexical representation (e. The atoms of lexical memory that are implicated in lexical processing experiments—be they whole words, roots and affixes, or some combination thereof—must ultimately coincide with the units of morphological theory if the latter are to be theor...

A connectionist architecture comprised of cell assemblies was developed and applied to the problem of speech perception at the phonemic and lexical levels. The problem addressed involved a disagreement amongst theorists over the possible sources of lexical priming effects. Speech was encoded in the model as the temporal activity of phoneme units that are connected to higher-level word assemblie...

Word segmentation is a process to divide a sentence into meaningful units called “word unit” [ISO/DIS 24614-1]. What is a word unit is judged by principles for its internal integrity and external use constraints. A word unit’s internal structure is bound by principles of lexical integrity, unpredictability and so on in order to represent one syntactically meaningful unit. Principles for externa...

Resumen. Lexical functions formalize semantic and syntactic relations between lexical units, given that meaning of an individual word largely depends on various relations connecting it to other words in context. Collocational relation is a type of institutionalized lexical relations that holds between the base and its partner in a collocation in contrast to free word combination where both word...