Theories of Lexical Semantics offers a comprehensive overview of the major traditions of
word meaning research in linguistics. In spite of the growing importance of the lexicon in …

WordNet is a large electronic lexical database for English (Miller 1995, Fellbaum 1998a). It
originated in 1986 at Princeton University where it continues to be developed and …

Arabic is the official language of hundreds of millions of people in twenty Middle East and
northern African countries, and is the religious language of all Muslims of various ethnicities …

This article presents clustering experiments on German verbs: A statistical grammar model
for German serves as the source for a distributional verb description at the lexical syntax …

We report on the current status of the Arabic WordNet project and in particular on the
contents of the database, the lexicographer and user interfaces, the Arabic WordNet …

After a long history of compilation of our own lexical resources, EDR Japanese/English
Electronic Dictionary, and discussions with major players on development of various …

This paper presents a novel approach to constructing multilingual lexical databases using
semantic frames. Starting with the conceptual information contained in the English FrameNet …

Cross-language plagiarism detection aims to detect plagiarised fragments of text among
documents in different languages. In this paper, we perform a systematic examination of …

This paper introduces a recently initiated project that focuses on building a lexical resource
for Modern Standard Arabic based on the widely used Princeton WordNet for English …

Current approaches to cross-language document retrieval and categorization are based on
discriminative methods which represent documents in a low-dimensional vector space. In …