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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"lexical similarity"”.
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The Potential Influence of Crosslinguistic Similarity on Lexical Transfer: Examining Vocabulary Use in L2 English
… language (L2) vocabulary, a phenomenon known as lexical transfer. Past research on this shows that learners’ L1 influences their L2 word choices, and that lexical similarity—which relates to cognancy—between L1 words and their L2 counterparts facilitates the processing of the L2 words, …
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On lexical level matching
… applications, text processing requires comparing lexical units: words, phrases, name entities and sentences. A significant amount of research has taken place in studying evaluating similarity metrics between those units. In this thesis, we summarize some research work in computing lexical …
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Improving neural language models on low-resource creole languages
… morphology and syntax. Creole languages are most lexically similar to their lexifier and most syntactically similar to otherwise unrelated creole languages. High lexical similarity to the lexifier is unsurprising because by definition lexifiers provide a creole’s lexicon, but high syntactic …
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The Role of Contingency and Ostensive Cues on Infants' Cognitively Demanding Word-Object Learning
… can be made more challenging by increasing the lexical similarity between labels. The primary goal of this study was to examine whether an adult speaker's ostensive cues and eye gaze-object contingency could augment referential learning in 14-month-old infants under difficult conditions (i.e., …
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Modeling Empathic Similarity in Personal Narratives
… personal experiences through identifying similarity in personal narratives based on empathic resonance as opposed to raw semantic or lexical similarity. We present a novel task for the retrieval of empathically similar stories, as well as the first evaluation benchmark on this task. We …
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Splitting rocks: Learning word sense representations from corpora and lexica
… them into a vector space, where semantic or lexical similarity is a function of geometric distance. Co-occurrence information of words in context is the main source of data used to learn these representations. Such models have typically been applied to learning representations for word forms, …
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Semantic Representation of L2 Lexicon in Japanese University Students
… Jiang (2000, 2002, 2004a) has claimed that L2 lexical entries fossilize with their equivalent L1 content or something very close to it. In another study using a more productive test of lexical knowledge (Jiang 2004b), however, the evidence for this conclusion was less clear. The present study …
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Structural indicators for effective quality assurance of snomed ct
… concepts of SCT that require QA. As such, similarity sets are introduced which are groups of concepts that are lexically identical except for one word. Concepts in a similarity set are expected to be modeled in a consistent way. If not, the set is considered to be inconsistent and submitted …