This paper describes a new formalization of Lexical-Functional Grammar called R-LFG (where the “R” stands for “Resource-based”). The formal details of R-LFG are presented in Johnson (1997); the present work concentrates on motivating R-LFG and explaining to linguists how it differs from the “classical” LFG framework presented in Kaplan and Bresnan (1982). This work is largely a reaction to the ...

abstract: lexical interpretation is a method that guides interpreter to study words and vocabulary of quran from different perspectives and in his interpretative understandings of quran's terms refers mainly to various definitions of a word, their roots and the compositions of the sentences. there is no doubt that the holy prophet, based on divine tradition, didn’t invent a new method to e...

This paper presents a study on the interpretation and bracketing of noun compounds (“NCs”), based on lexical semantics. Our primary goal is to develop a method to automatically interpret NCs through the use of semantic relations. Our NC interpretation method is based on lexical similarity with tagged NCs, based on lexical similarity measures derived fromWordNet. We apply the interpretation meth...

Studies with adult listeners have demonstrated that prosody, lexical information and referential evidence all have rapid effects on the interpretation of syntactically ambiguous sentences, lending support to highly interactive models of online interpretation. But young children in parallel studies often fail to use referential information and instead rely heavily on lexical constraints (Trueswe...

Semiotic interpretation of lexical cohesion is a major research challenge both in theoretical and applied linguistics. From the point of view of usagebased language description, individual lexical units can be roughly characterized by their collocation profiles, i.e., by collections of condensed usage patterns extracted from very large corpora. It is posited that related lexical units tend to s...

This paper addresses the problem of developing a large semantic lexicon for natural language processing. The increas~g availability of machine readable documents offers an opportunity to the field of lexieal semantics, by providing experimental evidence of word uses (on-line texts) and word definitions (on-line dictionaries). The system presented hereafter, PETRARCA, detects word e.occurrences ...

Experiencer or psych verbs are a notorious problem for the interface between lexical semantics and syntax (e.g., Grimshaw 1990, Pesetsky 1995). This paper shows that the consideration of discourse structure sheds new light on the data observed in the literature. In particular, this paper follows Asher and Lascarides’ (1995, 2003) and Asher and Pustejovsky’s (2000) ideas on the close interaction...