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Introduction to Arabic Speech Recognition Using CMUSphinx System | In this paper Arabic was investigated from the speech recognition problem
point of view. We propose a novel approach to build an Arabic Automated Speech
Recognition System (ASR). This system is based on the open source CMU Sphinx-4,
from the Carnegie Mellon University. CMU Sphinx is a large-vocabulary;
speaker-indepe... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
Arabic Speech Recognition System using CMU-Sphinx4 | In this paper we present the creation of an Arabic version of Automated
Speech Recognition System (ASR). This system is based on the open source
Sphinx-4, from the Carnegie Mellon University. Which is a speech recognition
system based on discrete hidden Markov models (HMMs). We investigate the
changes that must be ma... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
On the Development of Text Input Method - Lessons Learned | Intelligent Input Methods (IM) are essential for making text entries in many
East Asian scripts, but their application to other languages has not been fully
explored. This paper discusses how such tools can contribute to the development
of computer processing of other oriental languages. We propose a design
philosoph... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
Network statistics on early English Syntax: Structural criteria | This paper includes a reflection on the role of networks in the study of
English language acquisition, as well as a collection of practical criteria to
annotate free-speech corpora from children utterances. At the theoretical
level, the main claim of this paper is that syntactic networks should be
interpreted as the ... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
Segmentation and Context of Literary and Musical Sequences | We test a segmentation algorithm, based on the calculation of the
Jensen-Shannon divergence between probability distributions, to two symbolic
sequences of literary and musical origin. The first sequence represents the
successive appearance of characters in a theatrical play, and the second
represents the succession ... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
International Standard for a Linguistic Annotation Framework | This paper describes the Linguistic Annotation Framework under development
within ISO TC37 SC4 WG1. The Linguistic Annotation Framework is intended to
serve as a basis for harmonizing existing language resources as well as
developing new ones.
| 2,004 | Computation and Language |
A Formal Model of Dictionary Structure and Content | We show that a general model of lexical information conforms to an abstract
model that reflects the hierarchy of information found in a typical dictionary
entry. We show that this model can be mapped into a well-formed XML document,
and how the XSL transformation language can be used to implement a semantics
defined ... | 2,000 | Computation and Language |
Practical Approach to Knowledge-based Question Answering with Natural
Language Understanding and Advanced Reasoning | This research hypothesized that a practical approach in the form of a
solution framework known as Natural Language Understanding and Reasoning for
Intelligence (NaLURI), which combines full-discourse natural language
understanding, powerful representation formalism capable of exploiting
ontological information and re... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
Learning Probabilistic Models of Word Sense Disambiguation | This dissertation presents several new methods of supervised and unsupervised
learning of word sense disambiguation models. The supervised methods focus on
performing model searches through a space of probabilistic models, and the
unsupervised methods rely on the use of Gibbs Sampling and the Expectation
Maximization... | 1,998 | Computation and Language |
Learning Phonotactics Using ILP | This paper describes experiments on learning Dutch phonotactic rules using
Inductive Logic Programming, a machine learning discipline based on inductive
logical operators. Two different ways of approaching the problem are
experimented with, and compared against each other as well as with related work
on the task. The... | 2,002 | Computation and Language |
Bootstrapping Deep Lexical Resources: Resources for Courses | We propose a range of deep lexical acquisition methods which make use of
morphological, syntactic and ontological language resources to model word
similarity and bootstrap from a seed lexicon. The different methods are
deployed in learning lexical items for a precision grammar, and shown to each
have strengths and we... | 2,005 | Computation and Language |
Bio-linguistic transition and Baldwin effect in an evolutionary
naming-game model | We examine an evolutionary naming-game model where communicating agents are
equipped with an evolutionarily selected learning ability. Such a coupling of
biological and linguistic ingredients results in an abrupt transition: upon a
small change of a model control parameter a poorly communicating group of
linguistical... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
Zipf's Law and Avoidance of Excessive Synonymy | Zipf's law states that if words of language are ranked in the order of
decreasing frequency in texts, the frequency of a word is inversely
proportional to its rank. It is very robust as an experimental observation, but
to date it escaped satisfactory theoretical explanation. We suggest that Zipf's
law may arise from ... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
On the role of autocorrelations in texts | The task of finding a criterion allowing to distinguish a text from an
arbitrary set of words is rather relevant in itself, for instance, in the
aspect of development of means for internet-content indexing or separating
signals and noise in communication channels. The Zipf law is currently
considered to be the most r... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
On the fractal nature of mutual relevance sequences in the Internet news
message flows | In the task of information retrieval the term relevance is taken to mean
formal conformity of a document given by the retrieval system to user's
information query. As a rule, the documents found by the retrieval system
should be submitted to the user in a certain order. Therefore, a retrieval
perceived as a selection... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
What's in a Name? | This paper describes experiments on identifying the language of a single name
in isolation or in a document written in a different language. A new corpus has
been compiled and made available, matching names against languages. This corpus
is used in a series of experiments measuring the performance of general
language... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
The structure of verbal sequences analyzed with unsupervised learning
techniques | Data mining allows the exploration of sequences of phenomena, whereas one
usually tends to focus on isolated phenomena or on the relation between two
phenomena. It offers invaluable tools for theoretical analyses and exploration
of the structure of sentences, texts, dialogues, and speech. We report here the
results o... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
Linguistic Information Energy | In this treatment a text is considered to be a series of word impulses which
are read at a constant rate. The brain then assembles these units of
information into higher units of meaning. A classical systems approach is used
to model an initial part of this assembly process. The concepts of linguistic
system response... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
Generating models for temporal representations | We discuss the use of model building for temporal representations. We chose
Polish to illustrate our discussion because it has an interesting aspectual
system, but the points we wish to make are not language specific. Rather, our
goal is to develop theoretical and computational tools for temporal model
building tasks... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
Using Description Logics for Recognising Textual Entailment | The aim of this paper is to show how we can handle the Recognising Textual
Entailment (RTE) task by using Description Logics (DLs). To do this, we propose
a representation of natural language semantics in DLs inspired by existing
representations in first-order logic. But our most significant contribution is
the defin... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
Using Synchronic and Diachronic Relations for Summarizing Multiple
Documents Describing Evolving Events | In this paper we present a fresh look at the problem of summarizing evolving
events from multiple sources. After a discussion concerning the nature of
evolving events we introduce a distinction between linearly and non-linearly
evolving events. We present then a general methodology for the automatic
creation of summa... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
Some Reflections on the Task of Content Determination in the Context of
Multi-Document Summarization of Evolving Events | Despite its importance, the task of summarizing evolving events has received
small attention by researchers in the field of multi-document summariztion. In
a previous paper (Afantenos et al. 2007) we have presented a methodology for
the automatic summarization of documents, emitted by multiple sources, which
describe... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
Discriminative Phoneme Sequences Extraction for Non-Native Speaker's
Origin Classification | In this paper we present an automated method for the classification of the
origin of non-native speakers. The origin of non-native speakers could be
identified by a human listener based on the detection of typical pronunciations
for each nationality. Thus we suppose the existence of several phoneme
sequences that mig... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
Combined Acoustic and Pronunciation Modelling for Non-Native Speech
Recognition | In this paper, we present several adaptation methods for non-native speech
recognition. We have tested pronunciation modelling, MLLR and MAP non-native
pronunciation adaptation and HMM models retraining on the HIWIRE foreign
accented English speech database. The ``phonetic confusion'' scheme we have
developed consist... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
Am\'elioration des Performances des Syst\`emes Automatiques de
Reconnaissance de la Parole pour la Parole Non Native | In this article, we present an approach for non native automatic speech
recognition (ASR). We propose two methods to adapt existing ASR systems to the
non-native accents. The first method is based on the modification of acoustic
models through integration of acoustic models from the mother tong. The
phonemes of the t... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
Can a Computer Laugh ? | A computer model of "a sense of humour" suggested previously
[arXiv:0711.2058,0711.2061], relating the humorous effect with a specific
malfunction in information processing, is given in somewhat different
exposition. Psychological aspects of humour are elaborated more thoroughly. The
mechanism of laughter is formulat... | 1,994 | Computation and Language |
Proof nets for display logic | This paper explores several extensions of proof nets for the Lambek calculus
in order to handle the different connectives of display logic in a natural way.
The new proof net calculus handles some recent additions to the Lambek
vocabulary such as Galois connections and Grishin interactions. It concludes
with an explo... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
How to realize "a sense of humour" in computers ? | Computer model of a "sense of humour" suggested previously [arXiv:0711.2058,
0711.2061, 0711.2270] is raised to the level of a realistic algorithm.
| 2,007 | Computation and Language |
Morphological annotation of Korean with Directly Maintainable Resources | This article describes an exclusively resource-based method of morphological
annotation of written Korean text. Korean is an agglutinative language. Our
annotator is designed to process text before the operation of a syntactic
parser. In its present state, it annotates one-stem words only. The output is a
graph of mo... | 2,006 | Computation and Language |
Lexicon management and standard formats | International standards for lexicon formats are in preparation. To a certain
extent, the proposed formats converge with prior results of standardization
projects. However, their adequacy for (i) lexicon management and (ii)
lexicon-driven applications have been little debated in the past, nor are they
as a part of the... | 2,005 | Computation and Language |
In memoriam Maurice Gross | Maurice Gross (1934-2001) was both a great linguist and a pioneer in natural
language processing. This article is written in homage to his memory
| 2,005 | Computation and Language |
A resource-based Korean morphological annotation system | We describe a resource-based method of morphological annotation of written
Korean text. Korean is an agglutinative language. The output of our system is a
graph of morphemes annotated with accurate linguistic information. The language
resources used by the system can be easily updated, which allows us-ers to
control ... | 2,005 | Computation and Language |
Graphes param\'etr\'es et outils de lexicalisation | Shifting to a lexicalized grammar reduces the number of parsing errors and
improves application results. However, such an operation affects a syntactic
parser in all its aspects. One of our research objectives is to design a
realistic model for grammar lexicalization. We carried out experiments for
which we used a gr... | 2,006 | Computation and Language |
Evaluation of a Grammar of French Determiners | Existing syntactic grammars of natural languages, even with a far from
complete coverage, are complex objects. Assessments of the quality of parts of
such grammars are useful for the validation of their construction. We evaluated
the quality of a grammar of French determiners that takes the form of a
recursive transi... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
Very strict selectional restrictions | We discuss the characteristics and behaviour of two parallel classes of verbs
in two Romance languages, French and Portuguese. Examples of these verbs are
Port. abater [gado] and Fr. abattre [b\'etail], both meaning "slaughter
[cattle]". In both languages, the definition of the class of verbs includes
several feature... | 2,006 | Computation and Language |
Outilex, plate-forme logicielle de traitement de textes \'ecrits | The Outilex software platform, which will be made available to research,
development and industry, comprises software components implementing all the
fundamental operations of written text processing: processing without lexicons,
exploitation of lexicons and grammars, language resource management. All data
are struct... | 2,006 | Computation and Language |
Let's get the student into the driver's seat | Speaking a language and achieving proficiency in another one is a highly
complex process which requires the acquisition of various kinds of knowledge
and skills, like the learning of words, rules and patterns and their connection
to communicative goals (intentions), the usual starting point. To help the
learner to ac... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
Valence extraction using EM selection and co-occurrence matrices | This paper discusses two new procedures for extracting verb valences from raw
texts, with an application to the Polish language. The first novel technique,
the EM selection algorithm, performs unsupervised disambiguation of valence
frame forests, obtained by applying a non-probabilistic deep grammar parser and
some p... | 2,009 | Computation and Language |
Framework and Resources for Natural Language Parser Evaluation | Because of the wide variety of contemporary practices used in the automatic
syntactic parsing of natural languages, it has become necessary to analyze and
evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches. This research is
all the more necessary because there are currently no genre- and
domain-independent... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
The emerging field of language dynamics | A simple review by a linguist, citing many articles by physicists:
Quantitative methods, agent-based computer simulations, language dynamics,
language typology, historical linguistics
| 2,008 | Computation and Language |
A Comparison of natural (english) and artificial (esperanto) languages.
A Multifractal method based analysis | We present a comparison of two english texts, written by Lewis Carroll, one
(Alice in wonderland) and the other (Through a looking glass), the former
translated into esperanto, in order to observe whether natural and artificial
languages significantly differ from each other. We construct one dimensional
time series l... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
Online-concordance "Perekhresni stezhky" ("The Cross-Paths"), a novel by
Ivan Franko | In the article, theoretical principles and practical realization for the
compilation of the concordance to "Perekhresni stezhky" ("The Cross-Paths"), a
novel by Ivan Franko, are described. Two forms for the context presentation are
proposed. The electronic version of this lexicographic work is available
online.
| 2,006 | Computation and Language |
Robustness Evaluation of Two CCG, a PCFG and a Link Grammar Parsers | Robustness in a parser refers to an ability to deal with exceptional
phenomena. A parser is robust if it deals with phenomena outside its normal
range of inputs. This paper reports on a series of robustness evaluations of
state-of-the-art parsers in which we concentrated on one aspect of robustness:
its ability to pa... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
Between conjecture and memento: shaping a collective emotional
perception of the future | Large scale surveys of public mood are costly and often impractical to
perform. However, the web is awash with material indicative of public mood such
as blogs, emails, and web queries. Inexpensive content analysis on such
extensive corpora can be used to assess public mood fluctuations. The work
presented here is co... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
Methods to integrate a language model with semantic information for a
word prediction component | Most current word prediction systems make use of n-gram language models (LM)
to estimate the probability of the following word in a phrase. In the past
years there have been many attempts to enrich such language models with further
syntactic or semantic information. We want to explore the predictive powers of
Latent ... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
Concerning Olga, the Beautiful Little Street Dancer (Adjectives as
Higher-Order Polymorphic Functions) | In this paper we suggest a typed compositional seman-tics for nominal
compounds of the form [Adj Noun] that models adjectives as higher-order
polymorphic functions, and where types are assumed to represent concepts in an
ontology that reflects our commonsense view of the world and the way we talk
about it in or-dinar... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
Textual Fingerprinting with Texts from Parkin, Bassewitz, and Leander | Current research in author profiling to discover a legal author's fingerprint
does not only follow examinations based on statistical parameters only but
include more and more dynamic methods that can learn and that react adaptable
to the specific behavior of an author. But the question on how to appropriately
represe... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
Some properties of the Ukrainian writing system | We investigate the grapheme-phoneme relation in Ukrainian and some properties
of the Ukrainian version of the Cyrillic alphabet.
| 2,008 | Computation and Language |
The Generation of Textual Entailment with NLML in an Intelligent
Dialogue system for Language Learning CSIEC | This research report introduces the generation of textual entailment within
the project CSIEC (Computer Simulation in Educational Communication), an
interactive web-based human-computer dialogue system with natural language for
English instruction. The generation of textual entailment (GTE) is critical to
the further... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
Figuring out Actors in Text Streams: Using Collocations to establish
Incremental Mind-maps | The recognition, involvement, and description of main actors influences the
story line of the whole text. This is of higher importance as the text per se
represents a flow of words and expressions that once it is read it is lost. In
this respect, the understanding of a text and moreover on how the actor exactly
behav... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
Effects of High-Order Co-occurrences on Word Semantic Similarities | A computational model of the construction of word meaning through exposure to
texts is built in order to simulate the effects of co-occurrence values on word
semantic similarities, paragraph by paragraph. Semantic similarity is here
viewed as association. It turns out that the similarity between two words W1
and W2 s... | 2,006 | Computation and Language |
Parts-of-Speech Tagger Errors Do Not Necessarily Degrade Accuracy in
Extracting Information from Biomedical Text | A recent study reported development of Muscorian, a generic text processing
tool for extracting protein-protein interactions from text that achieved
comparable performance to biomedical-specific text processing tools. This
result was unexpected since potential errors from a series of text analysis
processes is likely... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
A Semi-Automatic Framework to Discover Epistemic Modalities in
Scientific Articles | Documents in scientific newspapers are often marked by attitudes and opinions
of the author and/or other persons, who contribute with objective and
subjective statements and arguments as well. In this respect, the attitude is
often accomplished by a linguistic modality. As in languages like english,
french and german... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
Phoneme recognition in TIMIT with BLSTM-CTC | We compare the performance of a recurrent neural network with the best
results published so far on phoneme recognition in the TIMIT database. These
published results have been obtained with a combination of classifiers.
However, in this paper we apply a single recurrent neural network to the same
task. Our recurrent ... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
Feature Unification in TAG Derivation Trees | The derivation trees of a tree adjoining grammar provide a first insight into
the sentence semantics, and are thus prime targets for generation systems. We
define a formalism, feature-based regular tree grammars, and a translation from
feature based tree adjoining grammars into this new formalism. The translation
pre... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
Graph Algorithms for Improving Type-Logical Proof Search | Proof nets are a graph theoretical representation of proofs in various
fragments of type-logical grammar. In spite of this basis in graph theory,
there has been relatively little attention to the use of graph theoretic
algorithms for type-logical proof search. In this paper we will look at several
ways in which stand... | 2,004 | Computation and Language |
A toolkit for a generative lexicon | In this paper we describe the conception of a software toolkit designed for
the construction, maintenance and collaborative use of a Generative Lexicon. In
order to ease its portability and spreading use, this tool was built with free
and open source products. We eventually tested the toolkit and showed it
filters th... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
Computational Representation of Linguistic Structures using
Domain-Specific Languages | We describe a modular system for generating sentences from formal definitions
of underlying linguistic structures using domain-specific languages. The system
uses Java in general, Prolog for lexical entries and custom domain-specific
languages based on Functional Grammar and Functional Discourse Grammar
notation, imp... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
Exploring a type-theoretic approach to accessibility constraint
modelling | The type-theoretic modelling of DRT that [degroote06] proposed features
continuations for the management of the context in which a clause has to be
interpreted. This approach, while keeping the standard definitions of
quantifier scope, translates the rules of the accessibility constraints of
discourse referents insid... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
A semantic space for modeling children's semantic memory | The goal of this paper is to present a model of children's semantic memory,
which is based on a corpus reproducing the kinds of texts children are exposed
to. After presenting the literature in the development of the semantic memory,
a preliminary French corpus of 3.2 million words is described. Similarities in
the r... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
Textual Entailment Recognizing by Theorem Proving Approach | In this paper we present two original methods for recognizing textual
inference. First one is a modified resolution method such that some linguistic
considerations are introduced in the unification of two atoms. The approach is
possible due to the recent methods of transforming texts in logic formulas.
Second one is ... | 2,006 | Computation and Language |
A chain dictionary method for Word Sense Disambiguation and applications | A large class of unsupervised algorithms for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD)
is that of dictionary-based methods. Various algorithms have as the root Lesk's
algorithm, which exploits the sense definitions in the dictionary directly. Our
approach uses the lexical base WordNet for a new algorithm originated in
Lesk's, ... | 2,007 | Computation and Language |
How Is Meaning Grounded in Dictionary Definitions? | Meaning cannot be based on dictionary definitions all the way down: at some
point the circularity of definitions must be broken in some way, by grounding
the meanings of certain words in sensorimotor categories learned from
experience or shaped by evolution. This is the "symbol grounding problem." We
introduce the co... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
Computational Approaches to Measuring the Similarity of Short Contexts :
A Review of Applications and Methods | Measuring the similarity of short written contexts is a fundamental problem
in Natural Language Processing. This article provides a unifying framework by
which short context problems can be categorized both by their intended
application and proposed solution. The goal is to show that various problems
and methodologie... | 2,010 | Computation and Language |
About the creation of a parallel bilingual corpora of web-publications | The algorithm of the creation texts parallel corpora was presented. The
algorithm is based on the use of "key words" in text documents, and on the
means of their automated translation. Key words were singled out by means of
using Russian and Ukrainian morphological dictionaries, as well as dictionaries
of the transla... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
TuLiPA: Towards a Multi-Formalism Parsing Environment for Grammar
Engineering | In this paper, we present an open-source parsing environment (Tuebingen
Linguistic Parsing Architecture, TuLiPA) which uses Range Concatenation Grammar
(RCG) as a pivot formalism, thus opening the way to the parsing of several
mildly context-sensitive formalisms. This environment currently supports
tree-based grammar... | 2,009 | Computation and Language |
Formal semantics of language and the Richard-Berry paradox | The classical logical antinomy known as Richard-Berry paradox is combined
with plausible assumptions about the size i.e. the descriptional complexity of
Turing machines formalizing certain sentences, to show that formalization of
language leads to contradiction.
| 2,008 | Computation and Language |
Investigation of the Zipf-plot of the extinct Meroitic language | The ancient and extinct language Meroitic is investigated using Zipf's Law.
In particular, since Meroitic is still undeciphered, the Zipf law analysis
allows us to assess the quality of current texts and possible avenues for
future investigation using statistical techniques.
| 2,007 | Computation and Language |
What It Feels Like To Hear Voices: Fond Memories of Julian Jaynes | Julian Jaynes's profound humanitarian convictions not only prevented him from
going to war, but would have prevented him from ever kicking a dog. Yet
according to his theory, not only are language-less dogs unconscious, but so
too were the speaking/hearing Greeks in the Bicameral Era, when they heard
gods' voices tel... | 2,009 | Computation and Language |
Constructing word similarities in Meroitic as an aid to decipherment | Meroitic is the still undeciphered language of the ancient civilization of
Kush. Over the years, various techniques for decipherment such as finding a
bilingual text or cognates from modern or other ancient languages in the Sudan
and surrounding areas has not been successful. Using techniques borrowed from
informatio... | 2,009 | Computation and Language |
Open architecture for multilingual parallel texts | Multilingual parallel texts (abbreviated to parallel texts) are linguistic
versions of the same content ("translations"); e.g., the Maastricht Treaty in
English and Spanish are parallel texts. This document is about creating an open
architecture for the whole Authoring, Translation and Publishing Chain
(ATP-chain) fo... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
On the nature of long-range letter correlations in texts | The origin of long-range letter correlations in natural texts is studied
using random walk analysis and Jensen-Shannon divergence. It is concluded that
they result from slow variations in letter frequency distribution, which are a
consequence of slow variations in lexical composition within the text. These
correlatio... | 2,016 | Computation and Language |
A Uniform Approach to Analogies, Synonyms, Antonyms, and Associations | Recognizing analogies, synonyms, antonyms, and associations appear to be four
distinct tasks, requiring distinct NLP algorithms. In the past, the four tasks
have been treated independently, using a wide variety of algorithms. These four
semantic classes, however, are a tiny sample of the full range of semantic
phenom... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
Using descriptive mark-up to formalize translation quality assessment | The paper deals with using descriptive mark-up to emphasize translation
mistakes. The author postulates the necessity to develop a standard and formal
XML-based way of describing translation mistakes. It is considered to be
important for achieving impersonal translation quality assessment. Marked-up
translations can ... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
Distribution of complexities in the Vai script | In the paper, we analyze the distribution of complexities in the Vai script,
an indigenous syllabic writing system from Liberia. It is found that the
uniformity hypothesis for complexities fails for this script. The models using
Poisson distribution for the number of components and hyper-Poisson
distribution for conn... | 2,009 | Computation and Language |
Une grammaire formelle du cr\'eole martiniquais pour la g\'en\'eration
automatique | In this article, some first elements of a computational modelling of the
grammar of the Martiniquese French Creole dialect are presented. The sources of
inspiration for the modelling is the functional description given by Damoiseau
(1984), and Pinalie's & Bernabe's (1999) grammar manual. Based on earlier works
in tex... | 2,003 | Computation and Language |
A Layered Grammar Model: Using Tree-Adjoining Grammars to Build a Common
Syntactic Kernel for Related Dialects | This article describes the design of a common syntactic description for the
core grammar of a group of related dialects. The common description does not
rely on an abstract sub-linguistic structure like a metagrammar: it consists in
a single FS-LTAG where the actual specific language is included as one of the
attribu... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
Analyse spectrale des textes: d\'etection automatique des fronti\`eres
de langue et de discours | We propose a theoretical framework within which information on the vocabulary
of a given corpus can be inferred on the basis of statistical information
gathered on that corpus. Inferences can be made on the categories of the words
in the vocabulary, and on their syntactical properties within particular
languages. Bas... | 2,006 | Computation and Language |
Soft Uncoupling of Markov Chains for Permeable Language Distinction: A
New Algorithm | Without prior knowledge, distinguishing different languages may be a hard
task, especially when their borders are permeable. We develop an extension of
spectral clustering -- a powerful unsupervised classification toolbox -- that
is shown to resolve accurately the task of soft language distinction. At the
heart of ou... | 2,006 | Computation and Language |
Text as Statistical Mechanics Object | In this article we present a model of human written text based on statistical
mechanics approach by deriving the potential energy for different parts of the
text using large text corpus. We have checked the results numerically and found
that the specific heat parameter effectively separates the closed class words
fro... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
Language structure in the n-object naming game | We examine a naming game with two agents trying to establish a common
vocabulary for n objects. Such efforts lead to the emergence of language that
allows for an efficient communication and exhibits some degree of homonymy and
synonymy. Although homonymy reduces the communication efficiency, it seems to
be a dynamica... | 2,009 | Computation and Language |
Assembling Actor-based Mind-Maps from Text Stream | For human beings, the processing of text streams of unknown size leads
generally to problems because e.g. noise must be selected out, information be
tested for its relevance or redundancy, and linguistic phenomenon like
ambiguity or the resolution of pronouns be advanced. Putting this into
simulation by using an arti... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
CoZo+ - A Content Zoning Engine for textual documents | Content zoning can be understood as a segmentation of textual documents into
zones. This is inspired by [6] who initially proposed an approach for the
argumentative zoning of textual documents. With the prototypical CoZo+ engine,
we focus on content zoning towards an automatic processing of textual streams
while cons... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
UNL-French deconversion as transfer & generation from an interlingua
with possible quality enhancement through offline human interaction | We present the architecture of the UNL-French deconverter, which "generates"
from the UNL interlingua by first"localizing" the UNL form for French, within
UNL, and then applying slightly adapted but classical transfer and generation
techniques, implemented in GETA's Ariane-G5 environment, supplemented by some
UNL-spe... | 1,999 | Computation and Language |
The Application of Fuzzy Logic to Collocation Extraction | Collocations are important for many tasks of Natural language processing such
as information retrieval, machine translation, computational lexicography etc.
So far many statistical methods have been used for collocation extraction.
Almost all the methods form a classical crisp set of collocation. We propose a
fuzzy l... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
A Computational Model to Disentangle Semantic Information Embedded in
Word Association Norms | Two well-known databases of semantic relationships between pairs of words
used in psycholinguistics, feature-based and association-based, are studied as
complex networks. We propose an algorithm to disentangle feature based
relationships from free association semantic networks. The algorithm uses the
rich topology of... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
The Latent Relation Mapping Engine: Algorithm and Experiments | Many AI researchers and cognitive scientists have argued that analogy is the
core of cognition. The most influential work on computational modeling of
analogy-making is Structure Mapping Theory (SMT) and its implementation in the
Structure Mapping Engine (SME). A limitation of SME is the requirement for
complex hand-... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
Discovering Global Patterns in Linguistic Networks through Spectral
Analysis: A Case Study of the Consonant Inventories | Recent research has shown that language and the socio-cognitive phenomena
associated with it can be aptly modeled and visualized through networks of
linguistic entities. However, most of the existing works on linguistic networks
focus only on the local properties of the networks. This study is an attempt to
analyze t... | 2,009 | Computation and Language |
Beyond word frequency: Bursts, lulls, and scaling in the temporal
distributions of words | Background: Zipf's discovery that word frequency distributions obey a power
law established parallels between biological and physical processes, and
language, laying the groundwork for a complex systems perspective on human
communication. More recent research has also identified scaling regularities in
the dynamics u... | 2,009 | Computation and Language |
Statistical analysis of the Indus script using $n$-grams | The Indus script is one of the major undeciphered scripts of the ancient
world. The small size of the corpus, the absence of bilingual texts, and the
lack of definite knowledge of the underlying language has frustrated efforts at
decipherment since the discovery of the remains of the Indus civilisation.
Recently, som... | 2,015 | Computation and Language |
Approaching the linguistic complexity | We analyze the rank-frequency distributions of words in selected English and
Polish texts. We compare scaling properties of these distributions in both
languages. We also study a few small corpora of Polish literary texts and find
that for a corpus consisting of texts written by different authors the basic
scaling re... | 2,009 | Computation and Language |
Du corpus au dictionnaire | In this article, we propose an automatic process to build multi-lingual
lexico-semantic resources. The goal of these resources is to browse
semantically textual information contained in texts of different languages.
This method uses a mathematical model called Atlas s\'emantiques in order to
represent the different s... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
Google distance between words | Cilibrasi and Vitanyi have demonstrated that it is possible to extract the
meaning of words from the world-wide web. To achieve this, they rely on the
number of webpages that are found through a Google search containing a given
word and they associate the page count to the probability that the word appears
on a webpa... | 2,015 | Computation and Language |
On the Entropy of Written Spanish | This paper reports on results on the entropy of the Spanish language. They
are based on an analysis of natural language for n-word symbols (n = 1 to 18),
trigrams, digrams, and characters. The results obtained in this work are based
on the analysis of twelve different literary works in Spanish, as well as a
279917 wo... | 2,012 | Computation and Language |
Beyond Zipf's law: Modeling the structure of human language | Human language, the most powerful communication system in history, is closely
associated with cognition. Written text is one of the fundamental
manifestations of language, and the study of its universal regularities can
give clues about how our brains process information and how we, as a society,
organize and share i... | 2,009 | Computation and Language |
New Confidence Measures for Statistical Machine Translation | A confidence measure is able to estimate the reliability of an hypothesis
provided by a machine translation system. The problem of confidence measure can
be seen as a process of testing : we want to decide whether the most probable
sequence of words provided by the machine translation system is correct or not.
In the... | 2,009 | Computation and Language |
BagPack: A general framework to represent semantic relations | We introduce a way to represent word pairs instantiating arbitrary semantic
relations that keeps track of the contexts in which the words in the pair occur
both together and independently. The resulting features are of sufficient
generality to allow us, with the help of a standard supervised machine learning
algorith... | 2,009 | Computation and Language |
What's in a Message? | In this paper we present the first step in a larger series of experiments for
the induction of predicate/argument structures. The structures that we are
inducing are very similar to the conceptual structures that are used in Frame
Semantics (such as FrameNet). Those structures are called messages and they
were previo... | 2,009 | Computation and Language |
Syntactic variation of support verb constructions | We report experiments about the syntactic variations of support verb
constructions, a special type of multiword expressions (MWEs) containing
predicative nouns. In these expressions, the noun can occur with or without the
verb, with no clear-cut semantic difference. We extracted from a large French
corpus a set of ex... | 2,008 | Computation and Language |
Network of two-Chinese-character compound words in Japanese language | Some statistical properties of a network of two-Chinese-character compound
words in Japanese language are reported. In this network, a node represents a
Chinese character and an edge represents a two-Chinese-character compound word.
It is found that this network has properties of "small-world" and "scale-free."
A net... | 2,009 | Computation and Language |
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