Words and patterns: lexico-grammatical patterns and semantic relations in domain-specific discourses

Abstract

The underlying assumption of this study is the understanding of a specialized term as a summary of disciplinary knowledge, formalized at a textual level in the contextual relations which structure disciplinary lexical knowledge and are therefore essential for the successful interpretation of a text. With that aim this paper carries the analysis of the lexico-grammatical patterns which signal the hyponymy and meronymy relations of the term building, a key disciplinary concept in a corpus of construction engineering textbooks, using the WordNet database for reference. The linguistic analysis of the repertoire of lexico-grammatical patterns employed brings to the fore the dual role of hyponymy and meronymy as both semantic and metalinguistic discourse-organizing lexical resources, key in the rhetorical organization of the discourse of this discipline.

A 3-phase approach based on sequential mining and dependency parsing for enhancing hypernym patterns performance

“…Various approaches have been proposed to increase the recall of Hearst’s patterns. These approaches extend Hearst’s patterns either manually defining new patterns (Jacques & Aussenac-Gilles 2006; Orna-Montesinos 2011; Seitner et al . 2016) or automatically extracting new patterns (Snow et al .…”

“…adding ‘any’ to ‘ x and other y ’ leads to ‘ x and any other y ’). Orna-Montesinos (2011) manually specifies some variations of Hearst’s patterns and new patterns, starting from a dataset comprising known HH-pairs where the noun ‘building’ is the hypernym. As usual, specified patterns are those frequently matching with sentences expressing hypernym hyponym relations and comprising any HH-pair found in the dataset.…”

¿Cómo se comunica la investigación a través de la pantalla? Análisis del discurso multimodal en las comunicaciones en congresos digitales en el área de comunicación

“…La cultura hace referencia al país o región donde se crea, pero también tiene en cuenta la comunidad profesional donde se inserta. Estas comunidades imponen convenciones estilísticas y estructurales a los géneros académicos (Bolívar, 2004;Hyland, 2000;Orna-Montesinos, 2012;Suomela-Salmi & Dervin, 2009;Viera & Taboada, 2020). Asimismo, los congresos donde se incluyen las comunicaciones crean microcontextos donde la comunidad discursiva se interrelaciona.…”