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Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) of Wernicke's and Broca's Areas in Studies of Language Learning and Word Acquisition
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Extending the NegEx lexicon for multiple languages.

Wendy W Chapman1, Dieter Hillert, Sumithra Velupillai

  • 1Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
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This study translated the English NegEx negation lexicon into Swedish, French, and German. Findings reveal common negation triggers across languages but significant variations in others, impacting multilingual lexical knowledge representation.

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Published on: July 13, 2019

Area of Science:

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Lexicography

Background:

  • Negation detection is crucial for clinical NLP and information extraction.
  • Existing negation lexicons, like NegEx, are often language-specific.
  • Multilingual negation analysis presents significant challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To translate and evaluate the English NegEx lexicon in Swedish, French, and German.
  • To identify common and language-specific negation triggers.
  • To discuss challenges in multilingual lexical knowledge representation.

Main Methods:

  • Translation of the NegEx lexicon into Swedish, French, and German.
  • Comparative analysis of the translated lexicons on language-specific corpora.
  • Observation of phrase frequency distribution (Zipf's Law).

Main Results:

  • Zipf's Law was observed across all tested languages.
  • "No" and "not" were identified as common negation triggers universally.
  • Significant variation in other negation triggers was noted between languages.

Conclusions:

  • The translated lexicon is available in OWL and RDF formats for extension to other languages.
  • Challenges in translating negation triggers and representing multilingual lexical knowledge were highlighted.
  • The study provides a foundation for multilingual negation detection systems.