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Annotating Predicate-Argument Structure for a Parallel Treebank
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We report on a recently initiated project which aims at building a multi-layered parallel treebank of English and German. Particular attention is devoted to a dedicated predicate-argument layer which is used for aligning translationally equivalent sentences of the two languages. We describe both our conceptual decision...
computer science
14,603
Statistical Machine Translation by Generalized Parsing
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Designers of statistical machine translation (SMT) systems have begun to employ tree-structured translation models. Systems involving tree-structured translation models tend to be complex. This article aims to reduce the conceptual complexity of such systems, in order to make them easier to design, implement, debug, us...
computer science
14,604
Summarizing Encyclopedic Term Descriptions on the Web
cs.CL
We are developing an automatic method to compile an encyclopedic corpus from the Web. In our previous work, paragraph-style descriptions for a term are extracted from Web pages and organized based on domains. However, these descriptions are independent and do not comprise a condensed text as in hand-crafted encyclopedi...
computer science
14,605
Unsupervised Topic Adaptation for Lecture Speech Retrieval
cs.CL
We are developing a cross-media information retrieval system, in which users can view specific segments of lecture videos by submitting text queries. To produce a text index, the audio track is extracted from a lecture video and a transcription is generated by automatic speech recognition. In this paper, to improve the...
computer science
14,606
Effects of Language Modeling on Speech-driven Question Answering
cs.CL
We integrate automatic speech recognition (ASR) and question answering (QA) to realize a speech-driven QA system, and evaluate its performance. We adapt an N-gram language model to natural language questions, so that the input of our system can be recognized with a high accuracy. We target WH-questions which consist of...
computer science
14,607
A Bimachine Compiler for Ranked Tagging Rules
cs.CL
This paper describes a novel method of compiling ranked tagging rules into a deterministic finite-state device called a bimachine. The rules are formulated in the framework of regular rewrite operations and allow unrestricted regular expressions in both left and right rule contexts. The compiler is illustrated by an ap...
computer science
14,608
Application of the Double Metaphone Algorithm to Amharic Orthography
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The Metaphone algorithm applies the phonetic encoding of orthographic sequences to simplify words prior to comparison. While Metaphone has been highly successful for the English language, for which it was designed, it may not be applied directly to Ethiopian languages. The paper details how the principles of Metaphone ...
computer science
14,609
Proofing Tools Technology at Neurosoft S.A.
cs.CL
The aim of this paper is to present the R&D activities carried out at Neurosoft S.A. regarding the development of proofing tools for Modern Greek. Firstly, we focus on infrastructure issues that we faced during our initial steps. Subsequently, we describe the most important insights of three proofing tools developed by...
computer science
14,610
Verbal chunk extraction in French using limited resources
cs.CL
A way of extracting French verbal chunks, inflected and infinitive, is explored and tested on effective corpus. Declarative morphological and local grammar rules specifying chunks and some simple contextual structures are used, relying on limited lexical information and some simple heuristic/statistic properties obtain...
computer science
14,611
An electronic dictionary as a basis for NLP tools: The Greek case
cs.CL
The existence of a Dictionary in electronic form for Modern Greek (MG) is mandatory if one is to process MG at the morphological and syntactic levels since MG is a highly inflectional language with marked stress and a spelling system with many characteristics carried over from Ancient Greek. Moreover, such a tool becom...
computer science
14,612
A Model for Fine-Grained Alignment of Multilingual Texts
cs.CL
While alignment of texts on the sentential level is often seen as being too coarse, and word alignment as being too fine-grained, bi- or multilingual texts which are aligned on a level in-between are a useful resource for many purposes. Starting from a number of examples of non-literal translations, which tend to make ...
computer science
14,613
A Sentimental Education: Sentiment Analysis Using Subjectivity Summarization Based on Minimum Cuts
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Sentiment analysis seeks to identify the viewpoint(s) underlying a text span; an example application is classifying a movie review as "thumbs up" or "thumbs down". To determine this sentiment polarity, we propose a novel machine-learning method that applies text-categorization techniques to just the subjective portions...
computer science
14,614
A Tutorial on the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm Including Maximum-Likelihood Estimation and EM Training of Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars
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The paper gives a brief review of the expectation-maximization algorithm (Dempster 1977) in the comprehensible framework of discrete mathematics. In Section 2, two prominent estimation methods, the relative-frequency estimation and the maximum-likelihood estimation are presented. Section 3 is dedicated to the expectati...
computer science
14,615
Inside-Outside Estimation Meets Dynamic EM
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We briefly review the inside-outside and EM algorithm for probabilistic context-free grammars. As a result, we formally prove that inside-outside estimation is a dynamic-programming variant of EM. This is interesting in its own right, but even more when considered in a theoretical context since the well-known convergen...
computer science
14,616
State of the Art, Evaluation and Recommendations regarding "Document Processing and Visualization Techniques"
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Several Networks of Excellence have been set up in the framework of the European FP5 research program. Among these Networks of Excellence, the NEMIS project focuses on the field of Text Mining. Within this field, document processing and visualization was identified as one of the key topics and the WG1 working group w...
computer science
14,617
Thematic Annotation: extracting concepts out of documents
cs.CL
Contrarily to standard approaches to topic annotation, the technique used in this work does not centrally rely on some sort of -- possibly statistical -- keyword extraction. In fact, the proposed annotation algorithm uses a large scale semantic database -- the EDR Electronic Dictionary -- that provides a concept hierar...
computer science
14,618
Multi-document Biography Summarization
cs.CL
In this paper we describe a biography summarization system using sentence classification and ideas from information retrieval. Although the individual techniques are not new, assembling and applying them to generate multi-document biographies is new. Our system was evaluated in DUC2004. It is among the top performers i...
computer science
14,619
A Matter of Opinion: Sentiment Analysis and Business Intelligence (position paper)
cs.CL
A general-audience introduction to the area of "sentiment analysis", the computational treatment of subjective, opinion-oriented language (an example application is determining whether a review is "thumbs up" or "thumbs down"). Some challenges, applications to business-intelligence tasks, and potential future direction...
computer science
14,620
Word sense disambiguation criteria: a systematic study
cs.CL
This article describes the results of a systematic in-depth study of the criteria used for word sense disambiguation. Our study is based on 60 target words: 20 nouns, 20 adjectives and 20 verbs. Our results are not always in line with some practices in the field. For example, we show that omitting non-content words dec...
computer science
14,621
Using phonetic constraints in acoustic-to-articulatory inversion
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The goal of this work is to recover articulatory information from the speech signal by acoustic-to-articulatory inversion. One of the main difficulties with inversion is that the problem is underdetermined and inversion methods generally offer no guarantee on the phonetical realism of the inverse solutions. A way to ad...
computer science
14,622
An elitist approach for extracting automatically well-realized speech sounds with high confidence
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This paper presents an "elitist approach" for extracting automatically well-realized speech sounds with high confidence. The elitist approach uses a speech recognition system based on Hidden Markov Models (HMM). The HMM are trained on speech sounds which are systematically well-detected in an iterative procedure. The r...
computer science
14,623
Statistical Parameters of the Novel "Perekhresni stezhky" ("The Cross-Paths") by Ivan Franko
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In the paper, a complex statistical characteristics of a Ukrainian novel is given for the first time. The distribution of word-forms with respect to their size is studied. The linguistic laws by Zipf-Mandelbrot and Altmann-Menzerath are analyzed.
computer science
14,624
Analyzing language development from a network approach
cs.CL
In this paper we propose some new measures of language development using network analyses, which is inspired by the recent surge of interests in network studies of many real-world systems. Children's and care-takers' speech data from a longitudinal study are represented as a series of networks, word forms being taken a...
computer science
14,625
Unification of multi-lingual scientific terminological resources using the ISO 16642 standard. The TermSciences initiative
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This paper presents the TermSciences portal, which deals with the implementation of a conceptual model that uses the recent ISO 16642 standard (Terminological Markup Framework). This standard turns out to be suitable for concept modeling since it allowed for organizing the original resources by concepts and to associat...
computer science
14,626
Foundations of Modern Language Resource Archives
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A number of serious reasons will convince an increasing amount of researchers to store their relevant material in centers which we will call "language resource archives". They combine the duty of taking care of long-term preservation as well as the task to give access to their material to different user groups. Access ...
computer science
14,627
Building a resource for studying translation shifts
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This paper describes an interdisciplinary approach which brings together the fields of corpus linguistics and translation studies. It presents ongoing work on the creation of a corpus resource in which translation shifts are explicitly annotated. Translation shifts denote departures from formal correspondence between s...
computer science
14,628
Raisonner avec des diagrammes : perspectives cognitives et computationnelles
cs.CL
Diagrammatic, analogical or iconic representations are often contrasted with linguistic or logical representations, in which the shape of the symbols is arbitrary. The aim of this paper is to make a case for the usefulness of diagrams in inferential knowledge representation systems. Although commonly used, diagrams hav...
computer science
14,629
Improving Term Extraction with Terminological Resources
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Studies of different term extractors on a corpus of the biomedical domain revealed decreasing performances when applied to highly technical texts. The difficulty or impossibility of customising them to new domains is an additional limitation. In this paper, we propose to use external terminologies to influence generic ...
computer science
14,630
Challenging the principle of compositionality in interpreting natural language texts
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The paper aims at emphasizing that, even relaxed, the hypothesis of compositionality has to face many problems when used for interpreting natural language texts. Rather than fixing these problems within the compositional framework, we believe that a more radical change is necessary, and propose another approach.
computer science
14,631
The role of time in considering collections
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The paper concerns the understanding of plurals in the framework of Artificial Intelligence and emphasizes the role of time. The construction of collection(s) and their evolution across time is often crucial and has to be accounted for. The paper contrasts a "de dicto" collection where the collection can be considered ...
computer science
14,632
The JRC-Acquis: A multilingual aligned parallel corpus with 20+ languages
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We present a new, unique and freely available parallel corpus containing European Union (EU) documents of mostly legal nature. It is available in all 20 official EUanguages, with additional documents being available in the languages of the EU candidate countries. The corpus consists of almost 8,000 documents per langua...
computer science
14,633
Un modèle générique d'organisation de corpus en ligne: application à la FReeBank
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The few available French resources for evaluating linguistic models or algorithms on other linguistic levels than morpho-syntax are either insufficient from quantitative as well as qualitative point of view or not freely accessible. Based on this fact, the FREEBANK project intends to create French corpora constructed u...
computer science
14,634
Scaling Construction Grammar up to Production Systems: the SCIM
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While a great effort has concerned the development of fully integrated modular understanding systems, few researches have focused on the problem of unifying existing linguistic formalisms with cognitive processing models. The Situated Constructional Interpretation Model is one of these attempts. In this model, the noti...
computer science
14,635
An Anthological Review of Research Utilizing MontyLingua, a Python-Based End-to-End Text Processor
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MontyLingua, an integral part of ConceptNet which is currently the largest commonsense knowledge base, is an English text processor developed using Python programming language in MIT Media Lab. The main feature of MontyLingua is the coverage for all aspects of English text processing from raw input text to semantic mea...
computer science
14,636
Complex networks and human language
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This paper introduces how human languages can be studied in light of recent development of network theories. There are two directions of exploration. One is to study networks existing in the language system. Various lexical networks can be built based on different relationships between words, being semantic or syntacti...
computer science
14,637
A Note on Local Ultrametricity in Text
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High dimensional, sparsely populated data spaces have been characterized in terms of ultrametric topology. This implies that there are natural, not necessarily unique, tree or hierarchy structures defined by the ultrametric topology. In this note we study the extent of local ultrametric topology in texts, with the aim ...
computer science
14,638
Menzerath-Altmann Law for Syntactic Structures in Ukrainian
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In the paper, the definition of clause suitable for an automated processing of a Ukrainian text is proposed. The Menzerath-Altmann law is verified on the sentence level and the parameters for the dependences of the clause length counted in words and syllables on the sentence length counted in clauses are calculated for...
computer science
14,639
Random Sentences from a Generalized Phrase-Structure Grammar Interpreter
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In numerous domains in cognitive science it is often useful to have a source for randomly generated corpora. These corpora may serve as a foundation for artificial stimuli in a learning experiment (e.g., Ellefson & Christiansen, 2000), or as input into computational models (e.g., Christiansen & Dale, 2001). The followi...
computer science
14,640
International Standard for a Linguistic Annotation Framework
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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.
computer science
14,641
A Formal Model of Dictionary Structure and Content
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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 ov...
computer science
14,642
Learning Phonotactics Using ILP
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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 r...
computer science
14,643
Bootstrapping Deep Lexical Resources: Resources for Courses
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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 weak...
computer science
14,644
Framework and Resources for Natural Language Parser Evaluation
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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 p...
computer science
14,645
Robustness Evaluation of Two CCG, a PCFG and a Link Grammar Parsers
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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 pars...
computer science
14,646
Methods to integrate a language model with semantic information for a word prediction component
cs.CL
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 Se...
computer science
14,647
Some properties of the Ukrainian writing system
cs.CL
We investigate the grapheme-phoneme relation in Ukrainian and some properties of the Ukrainian version of the Cyrillic alphabet.
computer science
14,648
Effects of High-Order Co-occurrences on Word Semantic Similarities
cs.CL
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 str...
computer science
14,649
Feature Unification in TAG Derivation Trees
cs.CL
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 prese...
computer science
14,650
Graph Algorithms for Improving Type-Logical Proof Search
cs.CL
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 standar...
computer science
14,651
A toolkit for a generative lexicon
cs.CL
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 the ...
computer science
14,652
Computational Representation of Linguistic Structures using Domain-Specific Languages
cs.CL
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, imple...
computer science
14,653
Exploring a type-theoretic approach to accessibility constraint modelling
cs.CL
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 inside ...
computer science
14,654
A semantic space for modeling children's semantic memory
cs.CL
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 res...
computer science
14,655
Textual Entailment Recognizing by Theorem Proving Approach
cs.CL
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 ba...
computer science
14,656
A chain dictionary method for Word Sense Disambiguation and applications
cs.CL
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, na...
computer science
14,657
Computational Approaches to Measuring the Similarity of Short Contexts : A Review of Applications and Methods
cs.CL
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 methodologies ...
computer science
14,658
About the creation of a parallel bilingual corpora of web-publications
cs.CL
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 translati...
computer science
14,659
TuLiPA: Towards a Multi-Formalism Parsing Environment for Grammar Engineering
cs.CL
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 grammars ...
computer science
14,660
Using descriptive mark-up to formalize translation quality assessment
cs.CL
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 be...
computer science
14,661
UNL-French deconversion as transfer & generation from an interlingua with possible quality enhancement through offline human interaction
cs.CL
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-speci...
computer science
14,662
The Application of Fuzzy Logic to Collocation Extraction
cs.CL
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 log...
computer science
14,663
Statistical analysis of the Indus script using $n$-grams
cs.CL
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, some ...
computer science
14,664
Google distance between words
cs.CL
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 webpage...
computer science
14,665
New Confidence Measures for Statistical Machine Translation
cs.CL
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 f...
computer science
14,666
What's in a Message?
cs.CL
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 previous...
computer science
14,667
Syntactic variation of support verb constructions
cs.CL
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 exam...
computer science
14,668
Acquisition of morphological families and derivational series from a machine readable dictionary
cs.CL
The paper presents a linguistic and computational model aiming at making the morphological structure of the lexicon emerge from the formal and semantic regularities of the words it contains. The model is word-based. The proposed morphological structure consists of (1) binary relations that connect each headword with wo...
computer science
14,669
Multiple Retrieval Models and Regression Models for Prior Art Search
cs.CL
This paper presents the system called PATATRAS (PATent and Article Tracking, Retrieval and AnalysiS) realized for the IP track of CLEF 2009. Our approach presents three main characteristics: 1. The usage of multiple retrieval models (KL, Okapi) and term index definitions (lemma, phrase, concept) for the three languages...
computer science
14,670
An OLAC Extension for Dravidian Languages
cs.CL
OLAC was founded in 2000 for creating online databases of language resources. This paper intends to review the bottom-up distributed character of the project and proposes an extension of the architecture for Dravidian languages. An ontological structure is considered for effective natural language processing (NLP) and ...
computer science
14,671
A New Computational Schema for Euphonic Conjunctions in Sanskrit Processing
cs.CL
Automated language processing is central to the drive to enable facilitated referencing of increasingly available Sanskrit E texts. The first step towards processing Sanskrit text involves the handling of Sanskrit compound words that are an integral part of Sanskrit texts. This firstly necessitates the processing of eu...
computer science
14,672
ANN-based Innovative Segmentation Method for Handwritten text in Assamese
cs.CL
Artificial Neural Network (ANN) s has widely been used for recognition of optically scanned character, which partially emulates human thinking in the domain of the Artificial Intelligence. But prior to recognition, it is necessary to segment the character from the text to sentences, words etc. Segmentation of words int...
computer science
14,673
A Discourse-based Approach in Text-based Machine Translation
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This paper presents a theoretical research based approach to ellipsis resolution in machine translation. The formula of discourse is applied in order to resolve ellipses. The validity of the discourse formula is analyzed by applying it to the real world text, i.e., newspaper fragments. The source text is converted into...
computer science
14,674
Resolution of Unidentified Words in Machine Translation
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This paper presents a mechanism of resolving unidentified lexical units in Text-based Machine Translation (TBMT). In a Machine Translation (MT) system it is unlikely to have a complete lexicon and hence there is intense need of a new mechanism to handle the problem of unidentified words. These unknown words could be ab...
computer science
14,675
Standards for Language Resources
cs.CL
The goal of this paper is two-fold: to present an abstract data model for linguistic annotations and its implementation using XML, RDF and related standards; and to outline the work of a newly formed committee of the International Standards Organization (ISO), ISO/TC 37/SC 4 Language Resource Management, which will use...
computer science
14,676
A New Look at the Classical Entropy of Written English
cs.CL
A simple method for finding the entropy and redundancy of a reasonable long sample of English text by direct computer processing and from first principles according to Shannon theory is presented. As an example, results on the entropy of the English language have been obtained based on a total of 20.3 million character...
computer science
14,677
Standardization of the formal representation of lexical information for NLP
cs.CL
A survey of dictionary models and formats is presented as well as a presentation of corresponding recent standardisation activities.
computer science
14,678
Parsing of part-of-speech tagged Assamese Texts
cs.CL
A natural language (or ordinary language) is a language that is spoken, written, or signed by humans for general-purpose communication, as distinguished from formal languages (such as computer-programming languages or the "languages" used in the study of formal logic). The computational activities required for enabling...
computer science
14,679
Representing human and machine dictionaries in Markup languages
cs.CL
In this chapter we present the main issues in representing machine readable dictionaries in XML, and in particular according to the Text Encoding Dictionary (TEI) guidelines.
computer science
14,680
Étude et traitement automatique de l'anglais du XVIIe siècle : outils morphosyntaxiques et dictionnaires
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In this article, we record the main linguistic differences or singularities of 17th century English, analyse them morphologically and syntactically and propose equivalent forms in contemporary English. We show how 17th century texts may be transcribed into modern English, combining the use of electronic dictionaries wi...
computer science
14,681
"Mind your p's and q's": or the peregrinations of an apostrophe in 17th Century English
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If the use of the apostrophe in contemporary English often marks the Saxon genitive, it may also indicate the omission of one or more let-ters. Some writers (wrongly?) use it to mark the plural in symbols or abbreviations, visual-ised thanks to the isolation of the morpheme "s". This punctuation mark was imported from ...
computer science
14,682
Recognition and translation Arabic-French of Named Entities: case of the Sport places
cs.CL
The recognition of Arabic Named Entities (NE) is a problem in different domains of Natural Language Processing (NLP) like automatic translation. Indeed, NE translation allows the access to multilingual in-formation. This translation doesn't always lead to expected result especially when NE contains a person name. For t...
computer science
14,683
Morphological study of Albanian words, and processing with NooJ
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We are developing electronic dictionaries and transducers for the automatic processing of the Albanian Language. We will analyze the words inside a linear segment of text. We will also study the relationship between units of sense and units of form. The composition of words takes different forms in Albanian. We have fo...
computer science
14,684
Approximations to the MMI criterion and their effect on lattice-based MMI
cs.CL
Maximum mutual information (MMI) is a model selection criterion used for hidden Markov model (HMM) parameter estimation that was developed more than twenty years ago as a discriminative alternative to the maximum likelihood criterion for HMM-based speech recognition. It has been shown in the speech recognition literatu...
computer science
14,685
On Event Structure in the Torn Dress
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Using Pustejovsky's "The Syntax of Event Structure" and Fong's "On Mending a Torn Dress" we give a glimpse of a Pustejovsky-like analysis to some example sentences in Fong. We attempt to give a framework for semantics to the noun phrases and adverbs as appropriate as well as the lexical entries for all words in the exa...
computer science
14,686
Towards a Heuristic Categorization of Prepositional Phrases in English with WordNet
cs.CL
This document discusses an approach and its rudimentary realization towards automatic classification of PPs; the topic, that has not received as much attention in NLP as NPs and VPs. The approach is a rule-based heuristics outlined in several levels of our research. There are 7 semantic categories of PPs considered in ...
computer science
14,687
Thai Rhetorical Structure Analysis
cs.CL
Rhetorical structure analysis (RSA) explores discourse relations among elementary discourse units (EDUs) in a text. It is very useful in many text processing tasks employing relationships among EDUs such as text understanding, summarization, and question-answering. Thai language with its distinctive linguistic characte...
computer science
14,688
Co-channel Interference Cancellation for Space-Time Coded OFDM Systems Using Adaptive Beamforming and Null Deepening
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Combined with space-time coding, the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system explores space diversity. It is a potential scheme to offer spectral efficiency and robust high data rate transmissions over frequency-selective fading channel. However, space-time coding impairs the system ability to suppress...
computer science
14,689
SLAM : Solutions lexicales automatique pour métaphores
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This article presents SLAM, an Automatic Solver for Lexical Metaphors like ?d\'eshabiller* une pomme? (to undress* an apple). SLAM calculates a conventional solution for these productions. To carry on it, SLAM has to intersect the paradigmatic axis of the metaphorical verb ?d\'eshabiller*?, where ?peler? (?to peel?) co...
computer science
14,690
Displacement Calculus
cs.CL
The Lambek calculus provides a foundation for categorial grammar in the form of a logic of concatenation. But natural language is characterized by dependencies which may also be discontinuous. In this paper we introduce the displacement calculus, a generalization of Lambek calculus, which preserves its good proof-theor...
computer science
14,691
Morphonette: a morphological network of French
cs.CL
This paper describes in details the first version of Morphonette, a new French morphological resource and a new radically lexeme-based method of morphological analysis. This research is grounded in a paradigmatic conception of derivational morphology where the morphological structure is a structure of the entire lexico...
computer science
14,692
The Lambek-Grishin calculus is NP-complete
cs.CL
The Lambek-Grishin calculus LG is the symmetric extension of the non-associative Lambek calculus NL. In this paper we prove that the derivability problem for LG is NP-complete.
computer science
14,693
Quantitative parametrization of texts written by Ivan Franko: An attempt of the project
cs.CL
In the article, the project of quantitative parametrization of all texts by Ivan Franko is manifested. It can be made only by using modern computer techniques after the frequency dictionaries for all Franko's works are compiled. The paper describes the application spheres, methodology, stages, principles and peculiarit...
computer science
14,694
A generic tool to generate a lexicon for NLP from Lexicon-Grammar tables
cs.CL
Lexicon-Grammar tables constitute a large-coverage syntactic lexicon but they cannot be directly used in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications because they sometimes rely on implicit information. In this paper, we introduce LGExtract, a generic tool for generating a syntactic lexicon for NLP from the Lexicon-G...
computer science
14,695
Ivan Franko's novel Dlja domashnjoho ohnyshcha (For the Hearth) in the light of the frequency dictionary
cs.CL
In the article, the methodology and the principles of the compilation of the Frequency dictionary for Ivan Franko's novel Dlja domashnjoho ohnyshcha (For the Hearth) are described. The following statistical parameters of the novel vocabulary are obtained: variety, exclusiveness, concentration indexes, correlation betwe...
computer science
14,696
Offline Arabic Handwriting Recognition Using Artificial Neural Network
cs.CL
The ambition of a character recognition system is to transform a text document typed on paper into a digital format that can be manipulated by word processor software Unlike other languages, Arabic has unique features, while other language doesn't have, from this language these are seven or eight language such as ordo,...
computer science
14,697
Fuzzy Modeling and Natural Language Processing for Panini's Sanskrit Grammar
cs.CL
Indian languages have long history in World Natural languages. Panini was the first to define Grammar for Sanskrit language with about 4000 rules in fifth century. These rules contain uncertainty information. It is not possible to Computer processing of Sanskrit language with uncertain information. In this paper, fuzzy...
computer science
14,698
Complete Complementary Results Report of the MARF's NLP Approach to the DEFT 2010 Competition
cs.CL
This companion paper complements the main DEFT'10 article describing the MARF approach (arXiv:0905.1235) to the DEFT'10 NLP challenge (described at http://www.groupes.polymtl.ca/taln2010/deft.php in French). This paper is aimed to present the complete result sets of all the conducted experiments and their settings in t...
computer science
14,699
Testing SDRT's Right Frontier
cs.CL
The Right Frontier Constraint (RFC), as a constraint on the attachment of new constituents to an existing discourse structure, has important implications for the interpretation of anaphoric elements in discourse and for Machine Learning (ML) approaches to learning discourse structures. In this paper we provide strong e...
computer science
14,700
Constructions définitoires des tables du Lexique-Grammaire
cs.CL
Lexicon-Grammar tables are a very rich syntactic lexicon for the French language. This linguistic database is nevertheless not directly suitable for use by computer programs, as it is incomplete and lacks consistency. Tables are defined on the basis of features which are not explicitly recorded in the lexicon. These fe...
computer science
14,701
Tableaux for the Lambek-Grishin calculus
cs.CL
Categorial type logics, pioneered by Lambek, seek a proof-theoretic understanding of natural language syntax by identifying categories with formulas and derivations with proofs. We typically observe an intuitionistic bias: a structural configuration of hypotheses (a constituent) derives a single conclusion (the categor...
computer science