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Viewing speech in action: speech articulation videos in the public domain that demonstrate the sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) (2016)
Journal Article
Nakai, S., Beavan, D., Lawson, E., Leplâtre, G., Scobbie, J. M., & Stuart-Smith, J. (2016). Viewing speech in action: speech articulation videos in the public domain that demonstrate the sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/17501229.2016.1165230

In this article, we introduce recently released, publicly available resources, which allow users to watch videos of hidden articulators (e.g. the tongue) during the production of various types of sounds found in the world’s languages. The articulatio... Read More about Viewing speech in action: speech articulation videos in the public domain that demonstrate the sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

Developing intentionality and researching multilingually: An ecological and methodological perspective (2013)
Journal Article
Stelma, J., Fay, R., & Zhou, X. (2013). Developing intentionality and researching multilingually: An ecological and methodological perspective. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 23(3), 300-315. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12040

This paper uses an ecological perspective to understand a researcher's developing intentionality vis-à-vis her multilingual engagement with research processes, namely, ‘researching multilingually’. The paper discusses ecological thinking in Applied L... Read More about Developing intentionality and researching multilingually: An ecological and methodological perspective.

Bilingual word association networks. (2007)
Book Chapter
Priss, U., & Old, L. J. (2007). Bilingual word association networks. In U. Priss, S. Polovina, & R. Hill (Eds.), Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Architectures for Smart Applications (310-320). Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73681-3_23

Bilingual word association networks can be beneficial as a tool in foreign
language education because they show relationships among cognate words of different languages and correspond to structures in the mental lexicon. This paper discusses possib... Read More about Bilingual word association networks..

Linguistic applications of formal concept analysis. (2005)
Book Chapter
Priss, U. (2005). Linguistic applications of formal concept analysis. In B. Ganter, G. Stumme, & R. Wille (Eds.), Formal Concept Analysis, Foundations and Applications (149-160). Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/11528784_8

Formal concept analysis as a methodology of data analysis and knowledge representation has potential to be applied to a variety of linguistic problems. First, linguistic applications often involve the identification and analysis of features, such as... Read More about Linguistic applications of formal concept analysis..

Conceptual exploration of semantic mirrors. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Priss, U., & Old, L. J. (2005, February). Conceptual exploration of semantic mirrors. Presented at Third International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3403

The "Semantic Mirrors Method" (Dyvik, 1998) is a means for automatic derivation of thesaurus entries from a word-aligned parallel corpus. The method is based on the construction of lattices of linguistic features. This paper models the Semantic Mirro... Read More about Conceptual exploration of semantic mirrors..

Unlocking the semantics of Roget's Thesaurus. (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Old, L. J. (2004, February). Unlocking the semantics of Roget's Thesaurus. Presented at Second International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis

Roget's Thesaurus is a semantic dictionary that is organized by concepts rather than words. It has an elaborate implicit structure that has not, in the 150 years since its inception, been made explicit. Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a tool that ca... Read More about Unlocking the semantics of Roget's Thesaurus..