Polarity lexicons have been a valuable resource for sentiment analysis and opinion mining. There are a number of such lexical resources available, but it is often suboptimal to us...
In this paper, we describe an approach based on off-the-shelf parsers and semantic resources for the Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) challenge that can be generally applied t...
We describe a model for the lexical analysis of Arabic text, using the lists of alternatives supplied by a broad-coverage morphological analyzer, SAMA, which include stable lemma ...
Rushin Shah, Paramveer S. Dhillon, Mark Liberman, ...
We describe a method for automatically generating Lexical Transfer Rules (LTRs) from word equivalences using transfer rule templates. Templates are skeletal LTRs, unspecified for ...
Davide Turcato, Paul McFetridge, Fred Popowich, Ja...
A theoryof interlanguage(IL)lexiconsis outlined,with emphasis on IL lexical entries, based on the HPSG notion of lexical sign. This theory accounts for idiosyncratic or lexical tr...
The focus of this article is the integration of two different perspectives on lexical semantics: Discourse Representation Theory's (DRT) inferentially motivated approach and ...
We present and experimentally evaluate a new model of pronunciation by analogy: the paradigmatic cascades model. Given a pronunciation lexicon, this algorithm first extracts the m...
Verbal and compositional lexical aspect provide the underlying temporal structure of events. Knowledge of lexical aspect, e.g., (a)telicity, is therefore required for interpreting...
We argue that in general, the analysis of lexical cohesion factors in a document can drive a summarizer, as well as enable other content characterization tasks. More narrowly, thi...
The lexical acquisition system presented in this paper incrementallyupdates linguisticproperties of unknown words inferred from their surrounding context by parsing sentences with...