This paper surveys the strategies that the Contrastive, Typological, and Translation Mining
parallel corpus traditions rely on to deal with the issue of target language representativeness …

To process language in a way that is compatible with human expectations in a
communicative interaction, we need computational representations of lexical properties that …

The vocabulary of human languages has been argued to support efficient communication by
optimizing the trade‐off between simplicity and informativeness. The argument has been …

Languages differ in how systematically and obligatorily they encode conceptual categories
such as tense and aspect. By drawing on large parallel corpora, these differences can be …

The vocabulary of human languages has been argued to support efficient communication by
optimizing the trade-off between complexity and informativeness (Kemp & Regier 2012). The …

This paper reports on the state-of-the-art in application of multidimensional scaling (MDS)
techniques to create semantic maps in linguistic research. MDS refers to a statistical …

Recent evidence from cognitive science suggests that there exist two classes of cognitive
representations within the spatial terms of a language, one represented geometrically (eg …

We propose a grounded approach to meaning in language typology. We treat data from
perceptual modalities, such as images, as a language-agnostic representation of meaning …

Abstract is paper reports on the state-of-the-art in the application of multidimensional scaling
(MDS) techniques to create semantic maps in linguistic research. MDS refers to a statistical …

Work has shown that greater need to refer to a semantic domain drives greater lexical
precision within that domain, both across languages, and in lexical choice in (within …