Verb aspect is a grammatical and lexical category that encodes temporal unfolding and duration of events described by verbs. It is a potentially interesting source of information for various computational tasks, but has so far not been studied in much depth from the perspective of automatic processing. Slavic languages are particularly interesting in this respect, as they encode aspect through ...

It is well established that adults converge on common referring expressions in dialogue, and that such lexical alignment is important for successful and rewarding communication. The authors show that children with an autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) and chronological- and verbal-age-matched typically developing (TD) children also show spontaneous lexical alignment. In a card game, both groups t...

This paper examines parallels in semantic structure between noun phrases and verbal predicates in constructions in which they are mutually constraining and contribute to the expression of LEXICAL ASPECT and GRAMMATICAL ASPECT. One of the main claims pursued here is that such interactions are semantically motivated: it is the nominal argument linked to the Incremental Theme role that interacts w...

Machine translation between any two languages requires the generation of information that is implicit in the source language. In translating from Chinese to English, tense and other temporal information must be inferred from other grammatical and lexical cues. Moreover, Chinese multiple-clause sentences may contain inter-clausal relations (temporal or otherwise) that must be explicit in English...

Current models of word recognition differ on the potential influence of lexical knowledge on sublexical processes. The present study addresses this issue through a paradigm based on the perceptual ‘‘migration’’ of linguistic units between two stimuli presented simultaneously, resulting in an illusory percept. For example, ‘‘kinrtrorverrsy’’ and ‘‘bosrglorrarfe’’ were played at the same time, wi...

Roumyana Slabakova University of Iowa This review article surveys recent research on the first and second language acquisition of temporal and aspectual properties of natural languages. Three recently published books are discussed in the context of the Aspect Hypothesis and the prototype, the connectionist, and the discourse explanations for the attested acquisition sequences. A potentially mis...

This paper reports the IIT-TUDA participation in the SemEval 2016 shared Task 5 of Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) for subtask 1. We describe our system incorporating domain dependency graph features, distributional thesaurus and unsupervised lexical induction using an unlabeled external corpus for aspect based sentiment analysis. Overall, we submitted 29 runs, covering 7 languages and 4...

This paper describes the aspect extraction system submitted by IHS R&D Belarus team at the SemEval-2014 shared task related to Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis. Our system is based on IHS Goldfire linguistic processor and uses a rich set of lexical, syntactic and statistical features in CRF model. We participated in two domain-specific tasks – restaurants and laptops – with the same system train...

The structure of lexical entries and the status of lexical decomposition remain controversial. In the psycholinguistic literature, one aspect of this debate concerns the psychological reality of the morphological complexity difference between compound words (teacup) and single words (crescent). The present study investigates morphological decomposition in compound words using visual lexical dec...

This paper reports on a pilot study of aspect marker generation in an English-to-Chinese translation scenario. Our classifier combines a number of linguistic features in a Maximum Entropy framework and achieves an overall accuracy of 78%. We also investigate the impact of different clusters of linguistic features; we find that syntactic features have the highest utility and lexical aspectual pr...