We present extensive evaluations comparing the performance of taxonomy-based and corpus-based approaches on SimLex999. The results confirm our hypothesis that taxonomy-based approaches are more suitable to identify similarity. We introduce two new measures of evaluation that show that all measures perform well on a coarse-grained evaluation and that it is not always clear which approach is most...

Vector space models of word meaning typically represent the meaning of a word as a vector computed by summing over all its corpus occurrences. Words close to this point in space can be assumed to be similar to it in meaning. But how far around this point does the region of similar meaning extend? In this paper we discuss two models that represent word meaning as regions in vector space. Both re...

The research in this paper was carried out as part of a research project funded by Swansea University and directed by professors Stuart Macdonald and Nuria Lorenzo-Dus. The project examined jihadist propaganda from different disciplinary perspectives, including Terrorism Studies and Linguistics. All available online publications of five jihadist magazines released between January 2009 and the e...

This paper presents a novel approach to semantic role annotation implementing an entailmentbased view of the concept of semantic role. I propose to represent arguments of predicates with grammatically relevant primitive properties entailed by the semantics of predicates. Such meaning components generalise over a range of semantic relations which humans tend to express systematically through lan...

Pregnancy and parenting could be complex psychologically for infertile couples who conceived through Assisted Reproduction Treatment (ART). This study examines transition to parenthood of women and men during their first pregnancy obtained with ART. A face-to-face semi-structured interview was administered to 15 Italian couples waiting for the first child after a conception with ART. The interv...

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