Formulaic Language in Native and Second Language Speakers: Psycholinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, and TESOL

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/89473/1/j.1545-7249.2008.tb00137.x.pd

Constructing a poor man’s wordnet in a resource-rich world

International audienceIn this paper we present a language-independent, fully modular and automatic approach to bootstrap a wordnet for a new language by recycling different types of already existing language resources, such as machine-readable dictionaries, parallel corpora, and Wikipedia. The approach, which we apply here to Slovene, takes into account monosemous and polysemous words, general and specialised vocabulary as well as simple and multi-word lexemes. The extracted words are then assigned one or several synset ids, based on a classifier that relies on several features including distributional similarity. Finally, we identify and remove highly dubious (literal, synset) pairs, based on simple distributional information extracted from a large corpus in an unsupervised way. Automatic, manual and task-based evaluations show that the resulting resource, the latest version of the Slovene wordnet, is already a valuable source of lexico-semantic information

Making use of iron sensors for environmental applications

New sensors based on iron(II) coordination complexes are discussed in detail

Mossbauer study on the gamma-radiolysis of tetralithium iron(III) trioxalate chloride nonahydrate

The final product of the gamma-radiolysis of tetralithium iron (III) trioxalate chloride nonahydrate has been identified by Mossbauer spectroscopy as FeC2O4 .2H2O. The radiolytic decomposition proceeds as a first-order process due to the original compound depletion and to the radiolytic stability of the ferrous compound. Chemical calibration of the relative peaks areas of the two iron species indicates that the corresponding f-factors ratio is unaffected by the radiolysis