Complex Words as Shortest Paths in the Network of Lexical Knowledge.

Lexical models diverge on the question of how to represent complex words. Under the morpheme-based approach, each morpheme is treated as a separate unit, while under the word-based approach, morphological structure is derived from complex words. In this paper, we propose a new computational model of morphology that is based on graph theory and is intended to elaborate the word-based network approach.

How Complex Verbs Acquire Their Idiosyncratic Meanings.

Complex verbs with the same preverb/prefix/particle that is both linguistically productive and analyzable can be compositional as well as non-compositional in meaning. For example, the English has compositional spatial uses () but also a non-spatial "continuative" use, where its semantic contribution is consistent with multiple verbs (). Comparable examples can be given with German preverbs or Russian prefixes, which are the main data analyzed in the present paper.

Acquisition of demonstratives in cross-linguistic perspective.

This paper examines the acquisition of demonstratives (e.g., ) from a cross-linguistic perspective.

Collective language creativity as a trade-off between priming and antipriming.

It is now a matter of scientific consensus that priming, a recency effect of activation in memory, has a significant impact on language users' choice of linguistic means. However, it has long remained unclear how priming effects coexist with the creative aspect of language use, and the importance of the latter has been somewhat downplayed. By introducing the results of two experiments, for English and Russian native speakers, this paper seeks to explain the mechanisms establishing balance of priming and language creativity.

Early detection of internet trolls: Introducing an algorithm based on word pairs / single words multiple repetition ratio.

Troll internet messages, especially those posted on Twitter, have recently been recognised as a very powerful weapon in hybrid warfare. Hence, an important task for the academic community is to provide a tool for identifying internet troll accounts as quickly as possible. At the same time, this tool must be highly accurate so that its employment will not violate people's rights and affect the freedom of speech.

The Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications, reproducible analysis of cross-linguistic polysemies.

Advances in computer-assisted linguistic research have been greatly influential in reshaping linguistic research. With the increasing availability of interconnected datasets created and curated by researchers, more and more interwoven questions can now be investigated. Such advances, however, are bringing high requirements in terms of rigorousness for preparing and curating datasets.