...
defined a lexical chain within Roget’s very gen-
eral hierarchy, in which lexical relationships are
traced through a common category.
Hirst and St-Onge (1997) define a lexical
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and lexical semantic relations (superordinate and
subordinate). Morris and Hirst (1991) suggested
building lexical chains is important in the resolu-
tion of lexical ambiguity...
... links
between lexical items create cohesion.
In response to Halliday & Hasan (1976)’s initiation of cohesion, other researchers have
discussed lexical cohesion. However, cohesion can be ... and comprehensive description of lexicalcohesion features in
English
- figure out how these devices are used in texts
- make comparative analysis of lexicalcohesion between English and Vietnamese ... surmount difficulties
in using and understanding the lexical cohesive devices.
3. Scope of the study
Within the framework of a minor M. A thesis, we only study on lexicalcohesion in the
corporate...
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Athens, Greece, 30 March – 3 April 2009.
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Using lexical and relational similarity to classify semantic relations
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Computer ... similarity: lexical similarity
and relational similarity. We present an
efficient and flexible technique for imple-
menting relational similarity and show the
effectiveness of combining lexical and ... 58.1
Table 2: Results for set kernel and lexical kernel combination. */** indicate significant improvement at
the 0.05/0.01 level over the corresponding lexical kernel alone, estimated by paired...
... improvement through
query expansion using information only from man-
ually created lexical resources.
In this paper, we re-examine the problem of query
expansion usinglexical resources in recently ... whether query
expansion using only manually created lexical re-
sources could lead to the performance improve-
ment. The main contribution of our work is to
show query expansion using only hand-crafted ... Section 2, and briefly re-
view the studies of query expansion using axiomatic
approaches in Section 3. We then present our study
of usinglexical resources, such as WordNet, for
query expansion in...
... Sessions, pages 215–222,
Sydney, July 2006.
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Using Lexical Dependency and Ontological Knowledge to Improve a
Detailed Syntactic and Semantic Tagger ... (in our case,
the uniform distribution, since all of the in-
formation in the model is specified using ME
constraints).
Our baseline model contains the following fea-
ture predecate set:
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where:
- ... whereas
in (Black et al., 1998) both syntax and semantics
were predicted together in one step. In using syn-
tactic tags as features, we take a softer approach
to the two-stage process. The tagger...
...
In this section, we define comparative keywords
and extract comparative-sentence candidates by
using those keywords.
3.1 Comparative keyword
First of all, we classify comparative sentences ... 2009.
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Extracting Comparative Sentences from Korean Text Documents Us-
ing Comparative Lexical Patterns and Machine Learning Techniques
Seon Yang
Department of Computer Engineering, ... As a result, we achieved signifi-
cant performance, an F1-score of 88.54%, in
our experiments using various web documents.
1 Introduction
Comparing one entity with other entities is one...
... labeling
Database
template fillup
Mining metalinguistic activity in corpora to create lexical resources using
Information Extraction techniques: the MOP system
Carlos Rodríguez Penagos
Language ...
and guerrilla attacks, while the ACQUILEX pro-
ject used similar methods for creating lexical da-
tabases using the highly structured environment of
machine-readable dictionary entries and other ... non -lexical markers included quota-
tion marks, apposition and text formatting.
A collection of potential metalinguistic patterns
identified in the exploratory Sociology corpus was
expanded (using...
...
Number of target different content words (Japanese) 6,686
Table 3 Corpus statistics
Lexical transfer using a vector-space model
Eiichiro SUMITA
ATR Spoken Language Translation Research ... overcome a bottleneck in
building a bilingual dictionary, we proposed a
simple mechanism for lexical transfer using a
vector space.
A preliminary computational experiment
showed that our basic proposal ... is very
time-consuming. In order to overcome
this bottleneck, we propose a new
mechanism for lexical transfer, which is
simple and suitable for learning from
bilingual corpora. It exploits...
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4 Conclusion
In this paper we described a genetic programming
approach for evolving new lexical association mea-
sures in order to extract collocations.
The evolved association measure ... lexicog-
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Figure 1 shows the representation of the Dice co-
efficient using our representation.
2.2 Genetic operators
The crossover operator combines two parent solu-
tions...
... for
computational models of lexical cohesion: any good
model should at least get the core part right. Much
of the existing applied research on lexical cohesion
uses WordNet-based (Miller, 1990) lexical chains ... textual cohesion.
They identified a number of cohesive constructions:
repetition (using the same words, or via repeated
reference, substitution and ellipsis), conjunction and
lexical cohesion.
Some ... on lexical cohesion, detailing the
task given to readers and the analysis of
the experimental data. We conclude with
discussion of the usefulness of the data in
future research on lexical cohesion.
1...
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dows in the text. High values indicate lexical close-
ness. Troughs in the resulting similarity'curve mark
spots with low cohesion.
3.3 Text Segmentation
To evaluate the performance...