New York University has produced a dictionary of nominalizations (NOMLEX) whose entries capture the relationship of the nominalization with its associated verb. This dictionary indicates where the verbal arguments may be found in the noun phrase which contains the nominalization. We have now made a study and produced some entries for nominalizations and their co-occurring verbs. These entries a...

This paper describes automatic techniques for mapping 9611 entries in a database of English verbs to WordNet senses. The verbs were initially grouped into 491 classes based on syntactic categories. Mapping these verbs into WordNet senses provides a resource that may be used for disambiguation in multilingual applications such as machine translation and crosslanguage information retrieval. Our t...

Four experiments were designed to investigate whether the frequency of words used to create pseudowords plays an important role in lexical decision. Computational models of the lexical decision task (e.g., the dual route cascaded model and the multiple read-out model) predict that latencies to low-frequency pseudowords should be faster than latencies to high-frequency pseudowords. Consistent wi...

Where does a verb’s frame come from? The obvious answer is the verb itself, and this is the answer that syntacticians have traditionally provided, whether they describe predicator-argument relations as syntactic sisterhood relations or as lexical properties (the predicator’s combinatoric potential, or valence). Thus, Haegeman, in her introduction to Government and Binding theory, states, “the t...

The focus of this article is the integration of two different perspectives on lexical semantics: Discourse Representation Theory's (DRT) inferentially motivated approach and Semantic Emphasis The-ory's (SET) lexical field based view. A new joined representation format is developed which is exemplified by analyses of German verbs. The benefits thereof are on both sides. DI/T gains basic entries ...

We describe a general technique for the encoding of lexical functions | such as lexical classiication, gender and number marking, innections and conjugations | using minimized acyclic nite-state automata. This technique has been used to store a Portuguese lexicon with over 2 million entries in about 1 megabyte. Unlike general le compression schemes, this representation allows random access to t...

The Bank of Swedish is described: affiliation, organisation, linguistic resources and tools. A point is made of the close connection between lexical research and corpus data, the broad textual coverage from Modern Swedish to Old Swedish, the official status of the organisation and its connection to Göteborg University. The relation to the broader scope of the comprehensive Language Database of ...

Story segmentation plays a critical role in spoken document processing. Spoken documents often come in a continuous audio stream without explicit boundaries related to stories or topics. It is important to be able to automatically segment these audio streams into coherent units. This work is an initial attempt to make use of informative lexical terms (or key terms) in recognition transcripts of...

Introduction : The variety of lexical structures Lexical data appear in a wide variety of forms. These can range from basic morpho-syntactic structures (Romary et al., 2004) intended to be used in language engineering application to important editorial projects that cover multiple levels of lexicographic description: morphological information, syntactic constructs, sense related information (de...

The importance and role of multi-word expressions (MWE) in the description and processing of natural language has been long recognized. However, multi-word information has often been relegated to the marginal role of idiosyncratic lexical information. The need for MWE lexicons grows even more acute for multi-lingual applications, for which (sometimes complex) correspondences must be identified,...