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A linguistic analysis of event conceptualisation processes in first and second language discourse: Evidence for language-specificity in the temporal discourse organisation of basic and advanced Czech and Hungarian learners of English
(2013-05-11)This dissertation examines conceptual reorganisation in second language learners by comparing event construal patterns in first language (L1) and second language (L2) discourse. Previous research suggests that the way ... -
Bio-SimVerb and Bio-SimLex: wide-coverage evaluation sets of word similarity in biomedicine.
(BioMed Central, 2018-02-05)Background: Word representations support a variety of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. The quality of these representations is typically assessed by comparing the distances in the induced vector spaces against human ... -
Investigating the cross-lingual translatability of VerbNet-style classification
(Paradigm Press, 2017-10-20)VerbNet – the most extensive online verb lexicon currently available for English – has proved useful in supporting a variety of NLP tasks. However, its exploitation in multilingual NLP has been limited by the fact that ...
