Using small sets of adjectival seed antonym pairs, we automatically find patterns where these pairs co-occur in a large corpus of Dutch, and then use these patterns to extract new antonym pairs. Evaluation of extracted pairs by five human judges showed that automatic scores correlate with human evaluation and that pattern based methods can be used to extract new antonym pairs. The majority of e...

This study examines the language to and of three children from age 2 to 5 in order to determine when and how children develop adult-like use of antonyms in discourse. Using the categories of antonym functions developed in Jones 2002, we find that child and child-directed language are similar to adultdirected printed journalism in their use of the two major antonym categories, Ancillary and Coor...

This paper presents a method for categorizing named entities in Wikipedia. In Wikipedia, an anchor text is glossed in a linked HTML text. We formalize named entity categorization as a task of categorizing anchor texts with linked HTML texts which glosses a named entity. Using this representation, we introduce a graph structure in which anchor texts are regarded as nodes. In order to incorporate...

One of the big challenges in understanding text, i.e., constructing an overall coherent representation of the text, is that much information needed in that representation is unstated (implicit). Thus, in order to "fill in the gaps" and create an overall representation, language processing systems need a large amount of world knowledge, and creating those knowledge resources remains a fundamenta...

Premodern Chinese texts pose problems that are difficult to accommodate with the current TEI text model, which bases the main hierarchy of a text on its structural content, rather than on a hierarchy that models the pages, lines and character positions. For the TEI, this is a sensible decision and has led to the abolishment of elements like and in the latest release of the Guideli...

A study was r~ade of tile degree of similarity between pairs of Russian nouns, as expressed by their tendency to occur in sentences with identical ~,,ords in identical syntactic relationships. A similarity matrix was prepared for forty nouns; for each pair of nouns the number of shared (i) adjective dependents, (ii) noun dependents, and (iii) noun governors was automatically retrieved from mach...

This study compared the effects of two annotation modalities on the reading comprehension of Iranian intermediate level EFL learners. The two experimental groups under study received treatment on 10 academic L2 reading passages under one of two conditions: One group received treatment on key words in the reading passages through a multimedia environment providing textual annotations. The second...

Incidental vocabulary acquisition is the primary way for second language learners to acquire knowledge and adding glosses has been proven a great contributor this process. Generally speaking, refer translation equivalent words, L2 synonyms or brief explanations of target words. This paper reviewed studies on role in incidental reading terms gloss languages, types, locations modalities. Findings...