Languages are known to describe the world in diverse ways. Across lexicons, diversity is
pervasive, appearing through phenomena such as lexical gaps and untranslatability …

Synonymy and translational equivalence are the relations of sameness of meaning within
and across languages. As the principal relations in wordnets and multi-wordnets, they are …

This paper describes a method to enrich lexical resources with content relating to linguistic
diversity, based on knowledge from the field of lexical typology. We capture the …

High-quality WordNets are crucial for achieving high-quality results in NLP applications that
rely on such resources. However, the wordnets of most languages suffer from serious issues …

A corpus‐based quantitative assessment of Berlin and Kay's proposal is presented. We
refine the Basic Color Terms hierarchy proposed by Berlin and Kay, through the concept of …

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 new functional definition and construction method for core vocabulary sets for
multiple applications based on the relative coverage of a target concept in thousands of …

Lexical-semantic resources (LSRs), such as online lexicons or wordnets, are fundamental
for natural language processing applications. In many languages, however, such resources …

Names for colours or colour-related properties are ubiquitous among natural languages,
and this has made linguistic colour classification a topic of interest: are colour classifications …

The national and cultural originality of color designations in place names are often
employed in the folklore of the Turkic peoples. Drawing material from famous epic poems in …