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Participant’s Roles and Cognitive Relations in Niger Delta Conflict News Discourse

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2021
Media studies on Niger Delta (ND) conflict discourse have largely utilized stylistic, pragmatic, and critical discourse analytical tools in exploring media representation of news actors and ideologies in news texts but have not accommodated such issues ...
Chuka Fred Ononye   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nigerian English: History, functions and features

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a comprehensive overview of Nigerian English, a rapidly expanding variety of world Englishes, recognised as one of the fastest‐growing varieties of English globally in numerical terms. This article has four aims. First, it discusses the historical developments of English in Nigeria with reference to the events that led to ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The semantic classification of adjectives in the Bulgarian Wordnet: Towards a multiclass approach

open access: yesCognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2018
The semantic classification of adjectives in the Bulgarian Wordnet: Towards a multiclass approach The paper presents an attempt at semantic classification of adjectives in the Bulgarian wordnet.
Tsvetana Dimitrova, Valentina Stefanova
doaj   +1 more source

Cultural conceptualisations and the cultural model of fertility and infertility in Nigerian English

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The article scrutinises the concepts of fertility and infertility as reflected in Nigerian English. For this, a mixed‐methods approach is suggested that uses the Corpus of Global Web‐based English as a resource to shed light on lexical frequency and collocations, as well as a newspaper corpus of online articles from The Guardian and Vanguard ...
Anna Finzel
wiley   +1 more source

Dutch hypernym detection : does decompounding help? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This research presents experiments carried out to improve the precision and recall of Dutch hypernym detection. To do so, we applied a data-driven semantic relation finder that starts from a list of automatically extracted domain-specific terms from ...
Lefever, Els   +2 more
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Methodolo- gical Aspects of Semantic Relationship Extraction for Automatic Thesaurus Generation

open access: yesМоделирование и анализ информационных систем, 2016
The paper is devoted to analysis of methods for automatic generation of a specialized thesaurus. The main algorithm of generation consists of three stages: selection and preprocessing of a text corpus, recognition of thesaurus terms, and extraction of ...
N. S. Lagutina   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multiword Discourse Markers Across Languages: A Linguistic and Computational Perspective

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 2078-2090, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Discourse markers (DMs) are linguistic expressions that convey different semantic and pragmatic values, managing and organizing the structure of spoken and written discourses. They can be either single‐word or multiword expressions (MWE), made up of conjunctions, adverbs, and prepositional phrases.
Elena‐Simona Apostol   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards the Methodology for Extending Princeton WordNet

open access: yesCognitive 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
doaj   +1 more source

Semantic maps and temperature: Capturing the lexicon-grammar interface across languages

open access: yesZeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2022
Traditionally, lexical typology has to a large extent been interested in lexical categorization of various cognitive domains (e. g., colour, perception, body), i.
Koptjevskaja-Tamm Maria
doaj   +1 more source

Prerequisite Relations Annotation Tool: Annotation and analysis of educational relations in texts

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 7, Page 1006-1027, July 2025.
Abstract Relations between terms in texts have long been studied in linguistics and specialized knowledge domains, especially when occurring in educational materials like textbooks, where they play a crucial role in guiding instructional design and learning.
Chiara Alzetta, Ilaria Torre
wiley   +1 more source

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