Iberian Names in North America: the Case of Asturian (2008)
Roser Saurí Colomer, Patrick Hanks
Family names in every culture constitute an element of the character of that culture and reflect aspects of its past. Among other features, they embrace elements of its current or past social...
Automated Induction of Sense in Context James PUSTEJOVSKY (2008)
In this paper, we introduce a model for sense assignment which relies on assigning senses to the contexts within which words appear, rather than to the words themselves. We argue that word senses as...
The Lexicographical Legacy of John Sinclair (2008)
John Sinclair opened up possibilities for new kinds of dictionaries. He assigned a central role to collocations and phraseology, insisting on close attention to textual evidence coupled with a broad...
WORD ASSOCIATION NORMS, ] /IUTUAL INFORMATION, AND LEXICOGRAPHY (2007)
Kenneth Ward Church, Patrick Hanks
The term word association is used in a very particular sense in the psycholinguistic literature. (Generally speaking, subjects respond quicker than normal to the word nurse if it follows a highly...
Abstract Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography (2007)
Kenneth Ward Church, Patrick Hanks
The term word assaciation is used in a very particular sense in the psycholinguistic literature. (Generally speaking, subjects respond quicker than normal to the word "nurse " if it...
Uri Zernik (editor, Victor Sadler, Kenneth Church, William Gale, Patrick Hanks, Don Hindle
It's taken a good three years to squeeze this collection of workshop papers through the publishing pipeline. No great matter: the state of the art in lexical acquisition is still much as it was....
Very Large Lexical Databases: An ACL Tutorial (2007)
James Pustejovsky, Patrick Hanks
The current generation of natural language systems for text processing being deployed on the weband in enterprise settings is uniquely different from everything that the natural language community...
Towards a generative lexical resource: The Brandeis Semantic Ontology (2006)
James Pustejovsky, Catherine Havasi, Roser Saurí, Patrick Hanks, Anna Rumshisky, Jessica Littman, ...
Generative Lexicon (GL) is a theory of linguistic semantics which focuses on the distributed nature of compositionality in natural language (Pustejovsky, 1995). Unlike purely verb-based ap-proaches...
German Light Verb Constructions in Corpora and Dictionaries (2006)
Hanks, Patrick, Urbschat, Anne, Gehweiler, Elke
In this paper we explore the collocations and semantics of light verbs in German and propose a new kind of monolingual German dictionary entry for such verbs, paying equal attention to phraseology...
German Light Verb Constructions in Corpora and Dictionaries (2006)
Hanks, Patrick, Urbschat, Anne, Gehweiler, Elke
In this paper we explore the collocations and semantics of light verbs in German and propose a new kind of monolingual German dictionary entry for such verbs, paying equal attention to phraseology...
German Light Verb Constructions in Corpora and Dictionaries (2006)
Hanks, Patrick, Urbschat, Anne, Gehweiler, Elke
In this paper we explore the collocations and semantics of light verbs in German and propose a new kind of monolingual German dictionary entry for such verbs, paying equal attention to phraseology...
Johnson and Modern Lexicography (2005)
Johnson not only compiled a magnificent dictionary, he also explicitly addressed some of the theoretical issues involved. His comments can be compared with modern lexicographical practice and its...
Johnson and Modern Lexicography (2005)
Johnson not only compiled a magnificent dictionary, he also explicitly addressed some of the theoretical issues involved. His comments can be compared with modern lexicographical practice and its...
Automated Induction of Sense in Context (2004)
James Pustejovsky, Patrick Hanks, Anna Rumshisky
Artifact, Location, and so forth. These are the top types selected from the Brandeis Shallow Ontology (BSO), and are similar to entities (and some relations) employed in Named Entity Recognition...
THE SYNTAGMATICS OF METAPHOR AND IDIOM (2004)
Corpus linguistics prompts a lexicocentric approach to linguistic theory. The theory of norms and exploitations (TNE; Hanks, forthcoming) is such a theory, applying the insights of prototype theory...
Lexical Sets: Relevance and Probability (1997)
Patrick Hanks, Oxford English Dictionaries
Hector Project. Iwould like tothank the staff ofDigital’s Systems Research Center in Palo Alto, especially Loretta Guarino, Bob Taylor, and Mary-Claire van Leunen, for making it possible. Iwould...
Using statistics in lexical analysis (1991)
Kenneth Church, William Gale, Patrick Hanks, Donald Hindle
The computational tools available for studying machine-readable corpora are at present still rather primitive. In the more advanced lexicographic organizations, there are concordancing programs (see...