Abstract: Prosody not only distinguishes “lexical” meaning but also plays a key role in information packaging by highlighting the most relevant constituent of the discourse, namely, “focus” ...

Abstract: The lexical entailment recognition problem aims to identify the is-a relation between words. The problem has recently been receiving research attention in the natural language processing ...

This chapter specifies the lexical structure of Java. A raw Unicode character stream is translated into a sequence of Java tokens, using the following three lexical translation steps, which are ...

A grammar describes the syntax of a programming language, and might be defined in Backus-Naur form (BNF). A lexer performs lexical analysis, turning text into tokens. A parser takes tokens and builds ...

New words are regularly introduced to communities, yet not all of these words persist in a community's lexicon. Among the many factors contributing to lexical change, we focus on the understudied ...

ABSTRACT: Massive researches and experiments are attempting to explore the exact process of verb acquisition of child learners at an early age (1 to 3 years old). Therefore, the “syntactic ...