hapax legomenon (pl. hapax legomena; sometimes abbreviated to hapax, pl. hapaxes), is a word that occurs only once within a context, either in the written record of an entire language, in the works of an author, or in a single text. the related terms, dis legomenon, tris legomenon, and tetrakis legomenon respectively refer to double, triple, or quadruple occurrences, but are far less commonly u...

Abstract Given a previously unseen form that is morphologically n-ways ambiguous, what is the best estimator for the lexical prior probabilities for the various functions of the form? We argue that the best estimator is provided by computing the relative frequencies of the various functions among the hapax legomena — the forms that occur exactly once in a corpus. This result has important impli...

We present an alignment strategy that specifically deals with the correct alignment of rare German nominal compounds to their English multiword translations. It recognizes compounds and multiwords based on their character lengths and on their most frequent POSpatterns, and aligns them based on their length ratios. Our approach is designed on the basis of a data analysis on roughly 500 German ha...

This paper describes the LINA system for the BUCC 2015 shared track. Following (Enright and Kondrak, 2007), our system identify comparable documents by collecting counts of hapax words. We extend this method by filtering out document pairs sharing target documents using pigeonhole reasoning and cross-lingual information.

This contribution examines the macro quantitative features of 15 lowfrequency word classes. The relationship between word frequency classes and the sizes of the frequency classes obeys Altmann’s power law, and the sizes of lowfrequency word classes increase along with the increase of text length. The relationship between text length and the sizes of low-frequency word classes also obeys Altmann...

We show that the Zipf's law for Chinese characters perfectly holds for sufficiently short texts (few thousand different characters). The scenario of its validity is similar to the Zipf's law for words in short English texts. For long Chinese texts (or for mixtures of short Chinese texts), rank-frequency relations for Chinese characters display a two-layer, hierarchic structure that combines a Z...

The aim of this study is to stimulate interest in searching the Electronic Archive of Carlo Emilio Gadda’s Works and the web site dedicated to this important Italian author in order to receive and implement suggestions, and to create new lexical resources for students, translators and readers. The article starts with a brief description of the editorial features of this Archive, that runs under...