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Stabilizing knowledge through standards - A perspective for the humanities
cs.CL
It is usual to consider that standards generate mixed feelings among scientists. They are often seen as not really reflecting the state of the art in a given domain and a hindrance to scientific creativity. Still, scientists should theoretically be at the best place to bring their expertise into standard developments, ...
computer science
14,703
A PDTB-Styled End-to-End Discourse Parser
cs.CL
We have developed a full discourse parser in the Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB) style. Our trained parser first identifies all discourse and non-discourse relations, locates and labels their arguments, and then classifies their relation types. When appropriate, the attribution spans to these relations are also determin...
computer science
14,704
Emoticonsciousness
cs.CL
A temporal analysis of emoticon use in Swedish, Italian, German and English asynchronous electronic communication is reported. Emoticons are classified as positive, negative and neutral. Postings to newsgroups over a 66 week period are considered. The aggregate analysis of emoticon use in newsgroups for science and pol...
computer science
14,705
Motifs de graphe pour le calcul de dépendances syntaxiques complètes
cs.CL
This article describes a method to build syntactical dependencies starting from the phrase structure parsing process. The goal is to obtain all the information needed for a detailled semantical analysis. Interaction Grammars are used for parsing; the saturation of polarities which is the core of this formalism can be m...
computer science
14,706
Opinion Polarity Identification through Adjectives
cs.CL
"What other people think" has always been an important piece of information during various decision-making processes. Today people frequently make their opinions available via the Internet, and as a result, the Web has become an excellent source for gathering consumer opinions. There are now numerous Web resources cont...
computer science
14,707
La réduction de termes complexes dans les langues de spécialité
cs.CL
Our study applies statistical methods to French and Italian corpora to examine the phenomenon of multi-word term reduction in specialty languages. There are two kinds of reduction: anaphoric and lexical. We show that anaphoric reduction depends on the discourse type (vulgarization, pedagogical, specialized) but is inde...
computer science
14,708
Annotated English
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This document presents Annotated English, a system of diacritical symbols which turns English pronunciation into a precise and unambiguous process. The annotations are defined and located in such a way that the original English text is not altered (not even a letter), thus allowing for a consistent reading and learning...
computer science
14,709
Recognizing Uncertainty in Speech
cs.CL
We address the problem of inferring a speaker's level of certainty based on prosodic information in the speech signal, which has application in speech-based dialogue systems. We show that using phrase-level prosodic features centered around the phrases causing uncertainty, in addition to utterance-level prosodic featur...
computer science
14,710
Fitting Ranked English and Spanish Letter Frequency Distribution in U.S. and Mexican Presidential Speeches
cs.CL
The limited range in its abscissa of ranked letter frequency distributions causes multiple functions to fit the observed distribution reasonably well. In order to critically compare various functions, we apply the statistical model selections on ten functions, using the texts of U.S. and Mexican presidential speeches i...
computer science
14,711
Codeco: A Grammar Notation for Controlled Natural Language in Predictive Editors
cs.CL
Existing grammar frameworks do not work out particularly well for controlled natural languages (CNL), especially if they are to be used in predictive editors. I introduce in this paper a new grammar notation, called Codeco, which is designed specifically for CNLs and predictive editors. Two different parsers have been ...
computer science
14,712
English-Lithuanian-English Machine Translation lexicon and engine: current state and future work
cs.CL
This article overviews the current state of the English-Lithuanian-English machine translation system. The first part of the article describes the problems that system poses today and what actions will be taken to solve them in the future. The second part of the article tackles the main issue of the translation process...
computer science
14,713
Multilingual lexicon design tool and database management system for MT
cs.CL
The paper presents the design and development of English-Lithuanian-English dictionarylexicon tool and lexicon database management system for MT. The system is oriented to support two main requirements: to be open to the user and to describe much more attributes of speech parts as a regular dictionary that are required...
computer science
14,714
A statistical learning algorithm for word segmentation
cs.CL
In natural speech, the speaker does not pause between words, yet a human listener somehow perceives this continuous stream of phonemes as a series of distinct words. The detection of boundaries between spoken words is an instance of a general capability of the human neocortex to remember and to recognize recurring sequ...
computer science
14,715
Computational Approach to Anaphora Resolution in Spanish Dialogues
cs.CL
This paper presents an algorithm for identifying noun-phrase antecedents of pronouns and adjectival anaphors in Spanish dialogues. We believe that anaphora resolution requires numerous sources of information in order to find the correct antecedent of the anaphor. These sources can be of different kinds, e.g., linguisti...
computer science
14,716
Acquiring Correct Knowledge for Natural Language Generation
cs.CL
Natural language generation (NLG) systems are computer software systems that produce texts in English and other human languages, often from non-linguistic input data. NLG systems, like most AI systems, need substantial amounts of knowledge. However, our experience in two NLG projects suggests that it is difficult to ac...
computer science
14,717
Entropy of Telugu
cs.CL
This paper presents an investigation of the entropy of the Telugu script. Since this script is syllabic, and not alphabetic, the computation of entropy is somewhat complicated.
computer science
14,718
Cross-moments computation for stochastic context-free grammars
cs.CL
In this paper we consider the problem of efficient computation of cross-moments of a vector random variable represented by a stochastic context-free grammar. Two types of cross-moments are discussed. The sample space for the first one is the set of all derivations of the context-free grammar, and the sample space for t...
computer science
14,719
Serialising the ISO SynAF Syntactic Object Model
cs.CL
This paper introduces, an XML format developed to serialise the object model defined by the ISO Syntactic Annotation Framework SynAF. Based on widespread best practices we adapt a popular XML format for syntactic annotation, TigerXML, with additional features to support a variety of syntactic phenomena including consti...
computer science
14,720
A Concise Query Language with Search and Transform Operations for Corpora with Multiple Levels of Annotation
cs.CL
The usefulness of annotated corpora is greatly increased if there is an associated tool that can allow various kinds of operations to be performed in a simple way. Different kinds of annotation frameworks and many query languages for them have been proposed, including some to deal with multiple layers of annotation. We...
computer science
14,721
Using Inverse lambda and Generalization to Translate English to Formal Languages
cs.CL
We present a system to translate natural language sentences to formulas in a formal or a knowledge representation language. Our system uses two inverse lambda-calculus operators and using them can take as input the semantic representation of some words, phrases and sentences and from that derive the semantic representa...
computer science
14,722
Language understanding as a step towards human level intelligence - automatizing the construction of the initial dictionary from example sentences
cs.CL
For a system to understand natural language, it needs to be able to take natural language text and answer questions given in natural language with respect to that text; it also needs to be able to follow instructions given in natural language. To achieve this, a system must be able to process natural language and be ab...
computer science
14,723
Query Expansion: Term Selection using the EWC Semantic Relatedness Measure
cs.CL
This paper investigates the efficiency of the EWC semantic relatedness measure in an ad-hoc retrieval task. This measure combines the Wikipedia-based Explicit Semantic Analysis measure, the WordNet path measure and the mixed collocation index. In the experiments, the open source search engine Terrier was utilised as a ...
computer science
14,724
Minimalist Grammars and Minimalist Categorial Grammars, definitions toward inclusion of generated languages
cs.CL
Stabler proposes an implementation of the Chomskyan Minimalist Program, Chomsky 95 with Minimalist Grammars - MG, Stabler 97. This framework inherits a long linguistic tradition. But the semantic calculus is more easily added if one uses the Curry-Howard isomorphism. Minimalist Categorial Grammars - MCG, based on an ex...
computer science
14,725
A Constraint-Satisfaction Parser for Context-Free Grammars
cs.CL
Traditional language processing tools constrain language designers to specific kinds of grammars. In contrast, model-based language specification decouples language design from language processing. As a consequence, model-based language specification tools need general parsers able to parse unrestricted context-free gr...
computer science
14,726
Data formats for phonological corpora
cs.CL
The goal of the present chapter is to explore the possibility of providing the research (but also the industrial) community that commonly uses spoken corpora with a stable portfolio of well-documented standardised formats that allow a high re-use rate of annotated spoken resources and, as a consequence, better interope...
computer science
14,727
NP Animacy Identification for Anaphora Resolution
cs.CL
In anaphora resolution for English, animacy identification can play an integral role in the application of agreement restrictions between pronouns and candidates, and as a result, can improve the accuracy of anaphora resolution systems. In this paper, two methods for animacy identification are proposed and evaluated us...
computer science
14,728
Ideogram Based Chinese Sentiment Word Orientation Computation
cs.CL
This paper presents a novel algorithm to compute sentiment orientation of Chinese sentiment word. The algorithm uses ideograms which are a distinguishing feature of Chinese language. The proposed algorithm can be applied to any sentiment classification scheme. To compute a word's sentiment orientation using the propose...
computer science
14,729
Individual and Domain Adaptation in Sentence Planning for Dialogue
cs.CL
One of the biggest challenges in the development and deployment of spoken dialogue systems is the design of the spoken language generation module. This challenge arises from the need for the generator to adapt to many features of the dialogue domain, user population, and dialogue context. A promising approach is traina...
computer science
14,730
ESLO: from transcription to speakers' personal information annotation
cs.CL
This paper presents the preliminary works to put online a French oral corpus and its transcription. This corpus is the Socio-Linguistic Survey in Orleans, realized in 1968. First, we numerized the corpus, then we handwritten transcribed it with the Transcriber software adding different tags about speakers, time, noise,...
computer science
14,731
Évaluation de lexiques syntaxiques par leur intégartion dans l'analyseur syntaxiques FRMG
cs.CL
In this paper, we evaluate various French lexica with the parser FRMG: the Lefff, LGLex, the lexicon built from the tables of the French Lexicon-Grammar, the lexicon DICOVALENCE and a new version of the verbal entries of the Lefff, obtained by merging with DICOVALENCE and partial manual validation. For this, all these ...
computer science
14,732
Construction du lexique LGLex à partir des tables du Lexique-Grammaire des verbes du grec moderne
cs.CL
In this paper, we summerize the work done on the resources of Modern Greek on the Lexicon-Grammar of verbs. We detail the definitional features of each table, and all changes made to the names of features to make them consistent. Through the development of the table of classes, including all the features, we have consi...
computer science
14,733
Extending the adverbial coverage of a NLP oriented resource for French
cs.CL
This paper presents a work on extending the adverbial entries of LGLex: a NLP oriented syntactic resource for French. Adverbs were extracted from the Lexicon-Grammar tables of both simple adverbs ending in -ment '-ly' (Molinier and Levrier, 2000) and compound adverbs (Gross, 1986; 1990). This work relies on the exploit...
computer science
14,734
Question Answering in a Natural Language Understanding System Based on Object-Oriented Semantics
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Algorithms of question answering in a computer system oriented on input and logical processing of text information are presented. A knowledge domain under consideration is social behavior of a person. A database of the system includes an internal representation of natural language sentences and supplemental information...
computer science
14,735
Rule based Part of speech Tagger for Homoeopathy Clinical realm
cs.CL
A tagger is a mandatory segment of most text scrutiny systems, as it consigned a s yntax class (e.g., noun, verb, adjective, and adverb) to every word in a sentence. In this paper, we present a simple part of speech tagger for homoeopathy clinical language. This paper reports about the anticipated part of speech tagger...
computer science
14,736
Exploring Twitter Hashtags
cs.CL
Twitter messages often contain so-called hashtags to denote keywords related to them. Using a dataset of 29 million messages, I explore relations among these hashtags with respect to co-occurrences. Furthermore, I present an attempt to classify hashtags into five intuitive classes, using a machine-learning approach. Th...
computer science
14,737
Formalization of semantic network of image constructions in electronic content
cs.CL
A formal theory based on a binary operator of directional associative relation is constructed in the article and an understanding of an associative normal form of image constructions is introduced. A model of a commutative semigroup, which provides a presentation of a sentence as three components of an interrogative li...
computer science
14,738
Recognizing Bangla Grammar using Predictive Parser
cs.CL
We describe a Context Free Grammar (CFG) for Bangla language and hence we propose a Bangla parser based on the grammar. Our approach is very much general to apply in Bangla Sentences and the method is well accepted for parsing a language of a grammar. The proposed parser is a predictive parser and we construct the pars...
computer science
14,739
Wikipedia Arborification and Stratified Explicit Semantic Analysis
cs.CL
[This is the translation of paper "Arborification de Wikip\'edia et analyse s\'emantique explicite stratifi\'ee" submitted to TALN 2012.] We present an extension of the Explicit Semantic Analysis method by Gabrilovich and Markovitch. Using their semantic relatedness measure, we weight the Wikipedia categories graph. ...
computer science
14,740
The Horse Raced Past: Gardenpath Processing in Dynamical Systems
cs.CL
I pinpoint an interesting similarity between a recent account to rational parsing and the treatment of sequential decisions problems in a dynamical systems approach. I argue that expectation-driven search heuristics aiming at fast computation resembles a high-risk decision strategy in favor of large transition velociti...
computer science
14,741
Statistical Function Tagging and Grammatical Relations of Myanmar Sentences
cs.CL
This paper describes a context free grammar (CFG) based grammatical relations for Myanmar sentences which combine corpus-based function tagging system. Part of the challenge of statistical function tagging for Myanmar sentences comes from the fact that Myanmar has free-phrase-order and a complex morphological system. F...
computer science
14,742
Distributional Measures of Semantic Distance: A Survey
cs.CL
The ability to mimic human notions of semantic distance has widespread applications. Some measures rely only on raw text (distributional measures) and some rely on knowledge sources such as WordNet. Although extensive studies have been performed to compare WordNet-based measures with human judgment, the use of distribu...
computer science
14,743
Distributional Measures as Proxies for Semantic Relatedness
cs.CL
The automatic ranking of word pairs as per their semantic relatedness and ability to mimic human notions of semantic relatedness has widespread applications. Measures that rely on raw data (distributional measures) and those that use knowledge-rich ontologies both exist. Although extensive studies have been performed t...
computer science
14,744
Fault detection system for Arabic language
cs.CL
The study of natural language, especially Arabic, and mechanisms for the implementation of automatic processing is a fascinating field of study, with various potential applications. The importance of tools for natural language processing is materialized by the need to have applications that can effectively treat the va...
computer science
14,745
Toward an example-based machine translation from written text to ASL using virtual agent animation
cs.CL
Modern computational linguistic software cannot produce important aspects of sign language translation. Using some researches we deduce that the majority of automatic sign language translation systems ignore many aspects when they generate animation; therefore the interpretation lost the truth information meaning. Our ...
computer science
14,746
An Accurate Arabic Root-Based Lemmatizer for Information Retrieval Purposes
cs.CL
In spite of its robust syntax, semantic cohesion, and less ambiguity, lemma level analysis and generation does not yet focused in Arabic NLP literatures. In the current research, we propose the first non-statistical accurate Arabic lemmatizer algorithm that is suitable for information retrieval (IR) systems. The propos...
computer science
14,747
Arabic Keyphrase Extraction using Linguistic knowledge and Machine Learning Techniques
cs.CL
In this paper, a supervised learning technique for extracting keyphrases of Arabic documents is presented. The extractor is supplied with linguistic knowledge to enhance its efficiency instead of relying only on statistical information such as term frequency and distance. During analysis, an annotated Arabic corpus is ...
computer science
14,748
Reduplicated MWE (RMWE) helps in improving the CRF based Manipuri POS Tagger
cs.CL
This paper gives a detail overview about the modified features selection in CRF (Conditional Random Field) based Manipuri POS (Part of Speech) tagging. Selection of features is so important in CRF that the better are the features then the better are the outputs. This work is an attempt or an experiment to make the prev...
computer science
14,749
Analysing Temporally Annotated Corpora with CAVaT
cs.CL
We present CAVaT, a tool that performs Corpus Analysis and Validation for TimeML. CAVaT is an open source, modular checking utility for statistical analysis of features specific to temporally-annotated natural language corpora. It provides reporting, highlights salient links between a variety of general and time-specif...
computer science
14,750
Using Signals to Improve Automatic Classification of Temporal Relations
cs.CL
Temporal information conveyed by language describes how the world around us changes through time. Events, durations and times are all temporal elements that can be viewed as intervals. These intervals are sometimes temporally related in text. Automatically determining the nature of such relations is a complex and unsol...
computer science
14,751
USFD2: Annotating Temporal Expresions and TLINKs for TempEval-2
cs.CL
We describe the University of Sheffield system used in the TempEval-2 challenge, USFD2. The challenge requires the automatic identification of temporal entities and relations in text. USFD2 identifies and anchors temporal expressions, and also attempts two of the four temporal relation assignment tasks. A rule-based sy...
computer science
14,752
An Annotation Scheme for Reichenbach's Verbal Tense Structure
cs.CL
In this paper we present RTMML, a markup language for the tenses of verbs and temporal relations between verbs. There is a richness to tense in language that is not fully captured by existing temporal annotation schemata. Following Reichenbach we present an analysis of tense in terms of abstract time points, with the a...
computer science
14,753
A Corpus-based Study of Temporal Signals
cs.CL
Automatic temporal ordering of events described in discourse has been of great interest in recent years. Event orderings are conveyed in text via va rious linguistic mechanisms including the use of expressions such as "before", "after" or "during" that explicitly assert a temporal relation -- temporal signals. In this ...
computer science
14,754
USFD at KBP 2011: Entity Linking, Slot Filling and Temporal Bounding
cs.CL
This paper describes the University of Sheffield's entry in the 2011 TAC KBP entity linking and slot filling tasks. We chose to participate in the monolingual entity linking task, the monolingual slot filling task and the temporal slot filling tasks. We set out to build a framework for experimentation with knowledge ba...
computer science
14,755
Massively Increasing TIMEX3 Resources: A Transduction Approach
cs.CL
Automatic annotation of temporal expressions is a research challenge of great interest in the field of information extraction. Gold standard temporally-annotated resources are limited in size, which makes research using them difficult. Standards have also evolved over the past decade, so not all temporally annotated da...
computer science
14,756
Post-Editing Error Correction Algorithm for Speech Recognition using Bing Spelling Suggestion
cs.CL
ASR short for Automatic Speech Recognition is the process of converting a spoken speech into text that can be manipulated by a computer. Although ASR has several applications, it is still erroneous and imprecise especially if used in a harsh surrounding wherein the input speech is of low quality. This paper proposes a ...
computer science
14,757
ASR Context-Sensitive Error Correction Based on Microsoft N-Gram Dataset
cs.CL
At the present time, computers are employed to solve complex tasks and problems ranging from simple calculations to intensive digital image processing and intricate algorithmic optimization problems to computationally-demanding weather forecasting problems. ASR short for Automatic Speech Recognition is yet another type...
computer science
14,758
Tree Transducers, Machine Translation, and Cross-Language Divergences
cs.CL
Tree transducers are formal automata that transform trees into other trees. Many varieties of tree transducers have been explored in the automata theory literature, and more recently, in the machine translation literature. In this paper I review T and xT transducers, situate them among related formalisms, and show how ...
computer science
14,759
Roget's Thesaurus as a Lexical Resource for Natural Language Processing
cs.CL
WordNet proved that it is possible to construct a large-scale electronic lexical database on the principles of lexical semantics. It has been accepted and used extensively by computational linguists ever since it was released. Inspired by WordNet's success, we propose as an alternative a similar resource, based on the ...
computer science
14,760
Parallel Spell-Checking Algorithm Based on Yahoo! N-Grams Dataset
cs.CL
Spell-checking is the process of detecting and sometimes providing suggestions for incorrectly spelled words in a text. Basically, the larger the dictionary of a spell-checker is, the higher is the error detection rate; otherwise, misspellings would pass undetected. Unfortunately, traditional dictionaries suffer from o...
computer science
14,761
OCR Post-Processing Error Correction Algorithm using Google Online Spelling Suggestion
cs.CL
With the advent of digital optical scanners, a lot of paper-based books, textbooks, magazines, articles, and documents are being transformed into an electronic version that can be manipulated by a computer. For this purpose, OCR, short for Optical Character Recognition was developed to translate scanned graphical text ...
computer science
14,762
Roget's Thesaurus and Semantic Similarity
cs.CL
We have implemented a system that measures semantic similarity using a computerized 1987 Roget's Thesaurus, and evaluated it by performing a few typical tests. We compare the results of these tests with those produced by WordNet-based similarity measures. One of the benchmarks is Miller and Charles' list of 30 noun pai...
computer science
14,763
Not As Easy As It Seems: Automating the Construction of Lexical Chains Using Roget's Thesaurus
cs.CL
Morris and Hirst present a method of linking significant words that are about the same topic. The resulting lexical chains are a means of identifying cohesive regions in a text, with applications in many natural language processing tasks, including text summarization. The first lexical chains were constructed manually ...
computer science
14,764
Roget's Thesaurus: a Lexical Resource to Treasure
cs.CL
This paper presents the steps involved in creating an electronic lexical knowledge base from the 1987 Penguin edition of Roget's Thesaurus. Semantic relations are labelled with the help of WordNet. The two resources are compared in a qualitative and quantitative manner. Differences in the organization of the lexical ma...
computer science
14,765
Segmentation Similarity and Agreement
cs.CL
We propose a new segmentation evaluation metric, called segmentation similarity (S), that quantifies the similarity between two segmentations as the proportion of boundaries that are not transformed when comparing them using edit distance, essentially using edit distance as a penalty function and scaling penalties by s...
computer science
14,766
Indus script corpora, archaeo-metallurgy and Meluhha (Mleccha)
cs.CL
Jules Bloch's work on formation of the Marathi language has to be expanded further to provide for a study of evolution and formation of Indian languages in the Indian language union (sprachbund). The paper analyses the stages in the evolution of early writing systems which began with the evolution of counting in the an...
computer science
14,767
Context-sensitive Spelling Correction Using Google Web 1T 5-Gram Information
cs.CL
In computing, spell checking is the process of detecting and sometimes providing spelling suggestions for incorrectly spelled words in a text. Basically, a spell checker is a computer program that uses a dictionary of words to perform spell checking. The bigger the dictionary is, the higher is the error detection rate....
computer science
14,768
A Corpus-based Evaluation of a Domain-specific Text to Knowledge Mapping Prototype
cs.CL
The aim of this paper is to evaluate a Text to Knowledge Mapping (TKM) Prototype. The prototype is domain-specific, the purpose of which is to map instructional text onto a knowledge domain. The context of the knowledge domain is DC electrical circuit. During development, the prototype has been tested with a limited da...
computer science
14,769
Adaptation of pedagogical resources description standard (LOM) with the specificity of Arabic language
cs.CL
In this article we focus firstly on the principle of pedagogical indexing and characteristics of Arabic language and secondly on the possibility of adapting the standard for describing learning resources used (the LOM and its Application Profiles) with learning conditions such as the educational levels of students and ...
computer science
14,770
A Method for Selecting Noun Sense using Co-occurrence Relation in English-Korean Translation
cs.CL
The sense analysis is still critical problem in machine translation system, especially such as English-Korean translation which the syntactical different between source and target languages is very great. We suggest a method for selecting the noun sense using contextual feature in English-Korean Translation.
computer science
14,771
More than Word Frequencies: Authorship Attribution via Natural Frequency Zoned Word Distribution Analysis
cs.CL
With such increasing popularity and availability of digital text data, authorships of digital texts can not be taken for granted due to the ease of copying and parsing. This paper presents a new text style analysis called natural frequency zoned word distribution analysis (NFZ-WDA), and then a basic authorship attribut...
computer science
14,772
Recent Technological Advances in Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence
cs.CL
A recent advance in computer technology has permitted scientists to implement and test algorithms that were known from quite some time (or not) but which were computationally expensive. Two such projects are IBM's Jeopardy as a part of its DeepQA project [1] and Wolfram's Wolframalpha[2]. Both these methods implement n...
computer science
14,773
Introduction of the weight edition errors in the Levenshtein distance
cs.CL
In this paper, we present a new approach dedicated to correcting the spelling errors of the Arabic language. This approach corrects typographical errors like inserting, deleting, and permutation. Our method is inspired from the Levenshtein algorithm, and allows a finer and better scheduling than Levenshtein. The result...
computer science
14,774
Average word length dynamics as indicator of cultural changes in society
cs.CL
Dynamics of average length of words in Russian and English is analysed in the article. Words belonging to the diachronic text corpus Google Books Ngram and dated back to the last two centuries are studied. It was found out that average word length slightly increased in the 19th century, and then it was growing rapidly ...
computer science
14,775
Input Scheme for Hindi Using Phonetic Mapping
cs.CL
Written Communication on Computers requires knowledge of writing text for the desired language using Computer. Mostly people do not use any other language besides English. This creates a barrier. To resolve this issue we have developed a scheme to input text in Hindi using phonetic mapping scheme. Using this scheme we ...
computer science
14,776
Evaluation of Computational Grammar Formalisms for Indian Languages
cs.CL
Natural Language Parsing has been the most prominent research area since the genesis of Natural Language Processing. Probabilistic Parsers are being developed to make the process of parser development much easier, accurate and fast. In Indian context, identification of which Computational Grammar Formalism is to be use...
computer science
14,777
Identification of Fertile Translations in Medical Comparable Corpora: a Morpho-Compositional Approach
cs.CL
This paper defines a method for lexicon in the biomedical domain from comparable corpora. The method is based on compositional translation and exploits morpheme-level translation equivalences. It can generate translations for a large variety of morphologically constructed words and can also generate 'fertile' translati...
computer science
14,778
Natural Language Processing - A Survey
cs.CL
The utility and power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) seems destined to change our technological society in profound and fundamental ways. However there are, to date, few accessible descriptions of the science of NLP that have been written for a popular audience, or even for an audience of intelligent, but uniniti...
computer science
14,779
TEI and LMF crosswalks
cs.CL
The present paper explores various arguments in favour of making the Text Encoding Initia-tive (TEI) guidelines an appropriate serialisation for ISO standard 24613:2008 (LMF, Lexi-cal Mark-up Framework) . It also identifies the issues that would have to be resolved in order to reach an appropriate implementation of the...
computer science
14,780
SpeedRead: A Fast Named Entity Recognition Pipeline
cs.CL
Online content analysis employs algorithmic methods to identify entities in unstructured text. Both machine learning and knowledge-base approaches lie at the foundation of contemporary named entities extraction systems. However, the progress in deploying these approaches on web-scale has been been hampered by the compu...
computer science
14,781
The Manifold of Human Emotions
cs.CL
Sentiment analysis predicts the presence of positive or negative emotions in a text document. In this paper, we consider higher dimensional extensions of the sentiment concept, which represent a richer set of human emotions. Our approach goes beyond previous work in that our model contains a continuous manifold rather ...
computer science
14,782
Joint Space Neural Probabilistic Language Model for Statistical Machine Translation
cs.CL
A neural probabilistic language model (NPLM) provides an idea to achieve the better perplexity than n-gram language model and their smoothed language models. This paper investigates application area in bilingual NLP, specifically Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). We focus on the perspectives that NPLM has potentia...
computer science
14,783
Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space
cs.CL
We propose two novel model architectures for computing continuous vector representations of words from very large data sets. The quality of these representations is measured in a word similarity task, and the results are compared to the previously best performing techniques based on different types of neural networks. ...
computer science
14,784
Language learning from positive evidence, reconsidered: A simplicity-based approach
cs.CL
Children learn their native language by exposure to their linguistic and communicative environment, but apparently without requiring that their mistakes are corrected. Such learning from positive evidence has been viewed as raising logical problems for language acquisition. In particular, without correction, how is the...
computer science
14,785
Extension of hidden markov model for recognizing large vocabulary of sign language
cs.CL
Computers still have a long way to go before they can interact with users in a truly natural fashion. From a users perspective, the most natural way to interact with a computer would be through a speech and gesture interface. Although speech recognition has made significant advances in the past ten years, gesture recog...
computer science
14,786
Sentiment Analysis : A Literature Survey
cs.CL
Our day-to-day life has always been influenced by what people think. Ideas and opinions of others have always affected our own opinions. The explosion of Web 2.0 has led to increased activity in Podcasting, Blogging, Tagging, Contributing to RSS, Social Bookmarking, and Social Networking. As a result there has been an ...
computer science
14,787
Dealing with natural language interfaces in a geolocation context
cs.CL
In the geolocation field where high-level programs and low-level devices coexist, it is often difficult to find a friendly user inter- face to configure all the parameters. The challenge addressed in this paper is to propose intuitive and simple, thus natural lan- guage interfaces to interact with low-level devices. Su...
computer science
14,788
An Improved Approach for Word Ambiguity Removal
cs.CL
Word ambiguity removal is a task of removing ambiguity from a word, i.e. correct sense of word is identified from ambiguous sentences. This paper describes a model that uses Part of Speech tagger and three categories for word sense disambiguation (WSD). Human Computer Interaction is very needful to improve interactions...
computer science
14,789
TimeML-strict: clarifying temporal annotation
cs.CL
TimeML is an XML-based schema for annotating temporal information over discourse. The standard has been used to annotate a variety of resources and is followed by a number of tools, the creation of which constitute hundreds of thousands of man-hours of research work. However, the current state of resources is such that...
computer science
14,790
ManTIME: Temporal expression identification and normalization in the TempEval-3 challenge
cs.CL
This paper describes a temporal expression identification and normalization system, ManTIME, developed for the TempEval-3 challenge. The identification phase combines the use of conditional random fields along with a post-processing identification pipeline, whereas the normalization phase is carried out using NorMA, an...
computer science
14,791
A framework for (under)specifying dependency syntax without overloading annotators
cs.CL
We introduce a framework for lightweight dependency syntax annotation. Our formalism builds upon the typical representation for unlabeled dependencies, permitting a simple notation and annotation workflow. Moreover, the formalism encourages annotators to underspecify parts of the syntax if doing so would streamline the...
computer science
14,792
"Not not bad" is not "bad": A distributional account of negation
cs.CL
With the increasing empirical success of distributional models of compositional semantics, it is timely to consider the types of textual logic that such models are capable of capturing. In this paper, we address shortcomings in the ability of current models to capture logical operations such as negation. As a solution ...
computer science
14,793
Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks for Discourse Compositionality
cs.CL
The compositionality of meaning extends beyond the single sentence. Just as words combine to form the meaning of sentences, so do sentences combine to form the meaning of paragraphs, dialogues and general discourse. We introduce both a sentence model and a discourse model corresponding to the two levels of compositiona...
computer science
14,794
Dialogue System: A Brief Review
cs.CL
A Dialogue System is a system which interacts with human in natural language. At present many universities are developing the dialogue system in their regional language. This paper will discuss about dialogue system, its components, challenges and its evaluation. This paper helps the researchers for getting info regard...
computer science
14,795
Competency Tracking for English as a Second or Foreign Language Learners
cs.CL
My system utilizes the outcomes feature found in Moodle and other learning content management systems (LCMSs) to keep track of where students are in terms of what language competencies they have mastered and the competencies they need to get where they want to go. These competencies are based on the Common European Fra...
computer science
14,796
On the role of autocorrelations in texts
cs.CL
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 rel...
computer science
14,797
On the fractal nature of mutual relevance sequences in the Internet news message flows
cs.CL
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 o...
computer science
14,798
Generating models for temporal representations
cs.CL
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 i...
computer science
14,799
Using Description Logics for Recognising Textual Entailment
cs.CL
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 definit...
computer science
14,800
Some Reflections on the Task of Content Determination in the Context of Multi-Document Summarization of Evolving Events
cs.CL
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 t...
computer science
14,801
Distribution of complexities in the Vai script
cs.CL
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 connec...
computer science