Over the past couple of decades, it has been repeatedly investigated whether open-class items are processed in a different way from closed-class items. Most studies, however, have been bedeviled by difficulties in controlling all relevant distinctions between openand closed-class items. For example, whereas openclass items have a relatively low frequency of occurrence, closedclass words have a ...

multi-word lexical units are a typical feature of specialized dictionaries, in particular monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. the paper studies the concept of the multi-word lexical unit and considers the similarities and differences of their selection and presentation in monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. the work analyses such issues as the classification of multi-w...

We investigate the lexical and syntactic flexibility of a class of idiomatic expressions. We develop measures that draw on such linguistic properties, and demonstrate that these statistical, corpus-based measures can be successfully used for distinguishing idiomatic combinations from non-idiomatic ones. We also propose a means for automatically determining which syntactic forms a particular idi...

We present the first results in the development of a multilingual resource that should enable the exploration of the possibility to apply various different lexical bases, such as edictionaries in LADL format and multilingual lexical databases like Wordnet and Prolex that were developed during the last decade. We discuss the problems of morphosyntactic annotation of the phenomena of regular deri...

As biomedical ontologies grow in size and complexity it is crucial to develop methods for detecting inconsistencies within ontologies. The Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) ontology represents knowledge of human anatomy, with structural organization provided by class and part relationships. Using a manual audit, I identify types of inconsistencies arising from class and regional part relation...

Higher-level graphical and lexical punctuation (paragraphing, indentation, font changes, ...) must be taken into consideration in comprehension processes and text generation. In this paper, we analyse a class of text punctuation marks which includes lexical units (chapter, introduction). We give a method for the analysis of the semantics of these units, in terms of metalanguage. In addition, th...

This paper specifically addresses the question of polysemy with respect to verbs, and whether or not the sense distinctions that are made in on-line lexical resources such as WordNet are appropriate for computational lexicons. The use of sets of related syntactic frames and verb classes are examined as a means of simplifying the task of defining different senses, and the importance of concrete ...

We apply machine learning techniques to classify automatically a set of verbs into lexical semantic classes, based on distributional approximations of diathe-ses, extracted from a very large annotated corpus. Distributions of four grammatical features are suucient to reduce error rate by 50% over chance. We conclude that corpus data is a usable repository of verb class information, and that cor...

This paper unearths the contribution of lexical cohesion to the textuality and overall meaning of Malcolm X’s speech 'The Ballot or the Bullet'. Drawing on Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) and Hoey’s (1991) theory of cohesion, specifically lexical   cohesion, whose main thrust is the role of lexical items in not only contributing to meaning but also serving as cohesive ties, the paper discusses how ...