We develop and evaluate a preliminary belief-updating model which links intermediate-term (i.e., over several days) syntactic adaptation to the joint statistics of syntactic structures and lexical cues to those structures. This model shows how subjects differentially depend on different cues to syntactic structure following changes in the reliability of those cues, as shown by Fine and Jaeger (...

The ISLE Computational Lexicon Working Group is committed to the consensual definition of a standardized infrastructure to develop multilingual resources for HLT applications. In particular, the ISLE-CLWG pursues this goal by designing MILE (Multilingual ISLE Lexical Entry), a general schema for the encoding of multilingual lexical information. This has to be intended as a meta-entry, acting as...

• Lexical cohesion on YouTube is multimodal, cross-modal and intertextual. Cohesive ties exist between the video comments as well comments. A discussion may appear fragmented but still show dense cohesion. Qualitative corpus methods reveal how fragmentation a feature surface only. This paper investigates use functions of lexical within across modes levels interaction channel, arguing that contr...

In the present paper, we describe the development of the lexical network DeriNet, which captures core word-formation relations on the set of around 266 thousand Czech lexemes. The network is currently limited to derivational relations because derivation is the most frequent and most productive word-formation process in Czech. This limitation is reflected in the architecture of the network: each...

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We present a new lexicographic enterprise that aims at producing a French Lexical Network or FLN. We begin by introducing the project as such and then proceed with a characterization of the FLN: the FLN as a generic lexical model, its network structure and the different types of lexical entities it models. Finally, we focus on two aspects of our lexicographic methodology: the incremental identi...

the present paper aims to examine the role of frequency lexicon in assessing lexical proficiency of persian learners. addressing the frequency distribution pattern of persian words, the research which is conducted in corpus-based method studies the relationship between words and lexical proficiency as well as derives the frequency lexicon from persian corpus. to do so, formal and colloquial per...

* An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Third Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop at Academia Sinica in May 2002. We are indebted to the participants as well as colleagues at CKIP for their comments. We would also like to thank the SemaNet 2002 reviewers for their helpful comments. It is our own responsibilities that, due to the short revision time, we were not able to incorporat...

The present study aims at investigating the effect of different levels of lexical collocational density on EFL learners’ reading comprehension. Eighty sophomore students with different levels of proficiency studying at  Zand Institute of Higher Education in Shiraz, Iran were chosen from among eighty five learners based on their score distribution on a reduced TOEFL test constructed by Education...