learning vocabulary constitutes a crucial step in language learning. amongst different word categories, compound words have failed to attract the attention they deserve. this led us to conduct a study trying to pinpoint the difficulties learning these words and to suggest some techniques facilitating their acquisition. to that effect, a questionnaire as well as a vocabu-lary test were given to ...

In Construction Morphology (CM), a compound is treated as a construction at the word level with a systematic correlation between its form and meaning, in the sense that any change in the form is accompanied by a change in the meaning. Compound words are coined by compounding templates which are called abstract schemas in CM. These abstract constructional schemas generalize over sets of existing...

Document clustering is a kind of text data mining and organization technique that automatically groups related documents into clusters. Traditionally single words occurring in the documents are identified to determine the similarities among documents. In this work, we investigate using compound words as features for document clustering. Our experimental results demonstrate that using compound w...

Early verbal-memory researchers assumed participants represent memory of a pair of unrelated items with 2 independent, separately modifiable, directional associations. However, memory for pairs of unrelated words (A-B) exhibits associative symmetry: a near-perfect correlation between accuracy on forward (A →?) and backward (?← B) cued recall. This was viewed as arguing against the independent-a...