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NorthEuraLex: a wide-coverage lexical database of Northern Eurasia [PDF]
Language Resources and Evaluation, 2019 AbstractThis article describes the first release version of a new lexicostatistical database of Northern Eurasia, which includes Europe as the most well-researched linguistic area. Unlike in other areas of the world, where databases are restricted to covering a small number of concepts as far as possible based on often sparse documentation, good ...
Johannes Dellert +12 more
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Vocabulary Demands of the IELTS Listening Test: An In-Depth Analysis
SAGE Open, 2022 The article offers an in-depth lexical analysis of the listening sub-test of the famous International English Language Testing System (IELTS). The vocabulary profile of 239 listening transcripts from 60 IELTS official practice tests were analyzed.
Doan Hieu Phung, Hung Tan Ha
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CAN TED TALK TRANSCRIPTS SERVE AS EXTENSIVE READING MATERIAL FOR MID-FREQUENCY VOCABULARY LEARNING?
TEFLIN Journal, 2020 Schmitt and Schmitt (2014) labeled the first 4000 to 9000 word families as mid-frequency words and stressed their importance based on Nation's (2006) estimate that for adequate comprehension of a variety of authentic texts, knowledge of the first 9000 ...
Wenhua Hsu
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionUniversities in non-Anglophone countries are increasingly implementing English as the medium of instruction (EMI) lectures. There seems to be an assumption that students’ performance on standardized English examinations can be equated with ...
Barry Lee Reynolds +3 more
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Assessing Lexical Semantic Regularities in Portuguese Word Embeddings.
International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, 2021 Models of word embeddings are often assessed when solving syntactic and semantic analogies. Among the latter, we are interested in relations that one would find in lexical-semantic knowledge bases like WordNet, also covered by some analogy test sets for
Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira +2 more
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Vocabulary in English Language Learning, Teaching, and Testing in Vietnam: A Review
Education Sciences, 2021 This review paper aims to provide an overview of vocabulary in English language learning, teaching, and testing in Vietnam. First, we review studies on the vocabulary knowledge of Vietnamese EFL learners.
Duy Van Vu, Elke Peters
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Aggressive morphology for robust lexical coverage [PDF]
Proceedings of the sixth conference on Applied natural language processing -, 2000 This paper describes an approach to providing lexical information for natural language processing in unrestricted domains. A system of approximately 1200 morphological rules is used to extend a core lexicon of 39, 000 words to provide lexical coverage that exceeds that of a lexicon of 80, 000 words or 150, 000 word forms.
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Towards the Methodology for Extending Princeton WordNet
Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2015 Towards the Methodology for Extending Princeton WordNet The paper presents the methodology and results of the first, pilot stage of the extension of Princeton WordNet, a huge electronic English language thesaurus and lexico-semantic network based on ...
Ewa Katarzyna Rudnicka +2 more
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Multi-SimLex: A Large-Scale Evaluation of Multilingual and Crosslingual Lexical Semantic Similarity
Computational Linguistics, 2020 We introduce Multi-SimLex, a large-scale lexical resource and evaluation benchmark covering data sets for 12 typologically diverse languages, including major languages (e.g., Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Russian) as well as less-resourced ones (e.g., Welsh,
Ivan Vulić +11 more
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Perceptron training for a wide-coverage lexicalized-grammar parser [PDF]
Proceedings of the Workshop on Deep Linguistic Processing - DeepLP '07, 2007 This paper investigates perceptron training for a wide-coverage CCG parser and compares the perceptron with a log-linear model. The CCG parser uses a phrase-structure parsing model and dynamic programming in the form of the Viterbi algorithm to find the highest scoring derivation.
Stephen Clark, James R. Curran
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