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Concreteness and Subjectivity as Dimensions of Lexical Meaning
... The results underline the relevance of both sub- jectivity and concreteness to lexical and phrasal semantics, and their application to language pro- cessing tasks. We hypothesize that concreteness and subjectivity ...
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Near Synonymy and Lexical Choice
... by lexical mismatches in machine translation (Kameyama et ...or lexical-conceptual structures in UNITRAN (Dorr 1993) is used in encoding lexical meaning (and all other ...in meaning to ...
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Anatomy of word and sentence meaning
... in lexical semantics while the posterior area is involved in integration of words into ...a meaning and then have subjects respond to a target, have shown greater impairment from frontal than from posterior ...
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The grammaticalization of Keep V-ing
... semantic meaning and a progressive increase of grammatical functions —what Hengeveld (2011, ...the lexical candidates to become grammaticalized must have some property that makes them useful as ‘assistants’ ...
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Modeling MWEs in BTB WN
... We focus on modeling compositionality of MWEs as reflected in their morphosyntactic and semantic properties. With respect to semantics we follow (Bentivogli and Pianta, 2004) in requir- ing the representation of both ...
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A Linguistically Motivated Computational Framework for Irish Sign Language
... We develop a 3D humanoid character to motivate our analysis using MakeHuman [MakeHuman] and Blender [Blender] as our core technologies. Prior to preparing a linguistically motivated computational definition of lexicon ...
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The effects of vocabulary knowledge in L2 semantic lexical engagement: The case of adult learners of English as a second language
... L2 lexical engagement of novel items occurs in ...semantic lexical engagement gains in L1 and L2 adult ...semantic lexical engagement of recently learned novel ...the meaning of the ...
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On the issue of synonymic definitions acceptability in English monolingual lexicography
... It is an excerpt from the conversation between two characters of the novel. One of them, Mr. Crocker, who came to England from America five years ago and was interested in baseball all his life, has just started to be ...
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The Logical Analysis of Lexical Ambiguity
... The complexes of meanings associated with polysemous lexical items are generated, structured and extended by a kind of "grammar" of word meaning: a set of operators which take descriptiv[r] ...
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A Structured Vector Space Model for Word Meaning in Context
... The SVS scheme we have proposed incorporates syntactic information in a more general manner than previous models, and thus addresses the issues we have discussed in Section 1. Since the representation retains individual ...
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Driving Semantic Parsing from the World’s Response
... Furthermore, to account for the many syntac- tic variations associated with the MR, we propose a new model for semantic parsing that allows us to learn effectively and generalize better. Cur- rent semantic parsing ...
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Towards the understanding of the alphabetic principle : conceptual changes as children learn to identify and spell novel words
... 1) The characteristics of written words are not related to their meaning - letters represent sub-lexical phonological units. This allows children to detect phonological identity of the[r] ...
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THE TRANSLATION OF PHRASAL VERBS IN THIRTEEN REASONS WHY
... the lexical problems and stylistics. Lexical problems coccur when a word, a phrase or an expression is not understood clearly and directly, misunderstood, not known at all to translators, or not found in ...
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The Influence of Cross-linguistic Similarities on L2 Idiom Production
... representations, lexical and conceptual, are suggested for the L2 idiomatic ...The lexical representation is at the mental lexicon, while the conceptual representation is at the general cognitive level and ...
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Impact of Meaning-Inferred Method vs. Marginal Glosses on Improving L2 Lexical Short-term and Long-term Retention of Intermediate EFL Learners
... of meaning-inferred method and marginal glosses on improving L2 lexical short-term and long-term retention of word meanings by intermediate EFL ...the meaning of words through guessing, the latter ...
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... As English language teachers, we are always looking for techniques that enable our learners to communicate more effectively in the target language. For this purpose, we develop techniques to encourage our learners to use ...
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Sustained meaning activation for polysemous but not homonymous words: Evidence from EEG
... of lexical ambiguity distinguish between homonymy, where words that share a lexical form have unrelated meanings, and polysemy, where the meanings are ...of meaning activation of different types of ...
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Towards an Optimal Lexicalization in a Natural Sounding Portable Natural Language Generator for Dialog Systems
... In contrast to the latest progress in speech recognition, the state-of-the-art in natural language generation for spoken language dialog systems is lagging behind. The core dialog managers are now more so- phisticated; ...
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GEMS: A Model of Sentence Production
... After a central processor has selected the first units from the knowledge store and activated the corresponding lexical entry, the further construction of the sentences meaning is entrus[r] ...
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