Lexical semantics concerns the representation and use of word meanings in natural language processing. Our work in the area has focused on learning word meanings for use in semantic parsing and, more ...

ATHENA Research Centre, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Maroussi, Greece Multiword expressions (MWEs) are sequences of words that pose a challenge to the computational processing of ...

As a person reads, the brain performs complex operations to create higher order semantic representations from individual words. While these steps are effortless for competent readers, we are only ...

Context-dependent word similarity can be measured over multiple cross-cutting dimensions. For example, lung and breath are similar thematically, while authoritative and superficial occur in similar ...

Lexical semantics has become a major research area within computational linguistics, drawing from psycholinguistics, knowledge representation, and computer algorithms and architecture. Research ...

The Research Topic “The evolution of meaning: challenges in quantitative lexical typology” deals with a field of increasing interest in current linguistics: quantitative studies on the evolution of ...