141.
Indexing of Linguistic Knowledge
- Paul John King
this paper reports) is the classification of words according to their inflectional
paradigms. The benefits of such a classification for natural language processing are apparent even for
a language, such as English, with a relatively simple inflectional system. When one considers a more
inflectionally complex language, such as German or Bulgarian, in which inflection is a ubiquitous and
indispensable part of syntactic processing, the paradigmatic classification of words is a sine qua non of
any successful natural language processing system.
We take a classificatory system to comprise (i) a classification, a collection of classes into which
linguistic objects can be put, and (ii) an index, a mechanism...
142.
Língua, cultura e civilização: um estudo das idéias lingüísticas de Serafim da Silva Neto
- Jorge Viana de Moraes
Neste trabalho analisamos o pensamento crítico do filólogo brasileiro Serafim da Silva Neto, sobre o português do Brasil. Para ele a língua era uma manifestação espiritual do homem, que estava atrelada à cultura e à civilização. Nosso objetivo é o de examinar, no discurso do filólogo, a relação entre estes conceitos e explicá-los à luz da história, do contexto em que ele estava inserido. Para tanto, o corpus compõe-se de duas obras do autor: Introdução aos Estudos da Língua Portuguesa no Brasil, de 1950 e Língua, Cultura e Civilização, de 1960. A análise é precedida da contextualização da época em...
143.
Linguistic Analysis of Websites: A New Method of Analysing Language, the Poor Cousin of Usability
- Sabrina Duda; Michael Schiessl; Gerald Wildgruber; Christian Rohrer; Paul Fu
Abstract. While text and concepts have always been acknowledged as key players in effecting the overall impact of a website, language- much like an attention-deprived stepchild- has always been allocated a little side role. The following work introduces a method for linguistic analysis which enables usability experts to examine language on a website at its various layers, and to carry out a user study about users ´ perception of language. The method will be illustrated by an eBay case study in Germany and China and will be equipped with concrete examples. These examples indicate that this method is indeed easy...
144.
A Multi-Agent Graph-Game Approach to Theoretical Foundations of Linguistic Geometry
- Vladimir Yakhnis; Boris Stilman
The Linguistic Geometry (LG) approach to discrete systems was introduced by B. Stilman in early 80s. It employed competing/cooperating agents for modeling and controlling of discrete systems. The approach was applied to a variety of problems with huge state spaces including control of aircraft, battlefield robots, and chess. One of the key innovations of LG is the use of almost winning strategies, rather than truly winning strategies for the participating agents. There are many cases where the winning strategies have so high time complexity that they are not computable in practice, whereas the almost winning strategies can be applied and...
145.
Linguistic processing modules in ALEP for natural language interfaces
- Marimon Felipe, Montserrat; Theofilidis, Axel; Declerck, Thierry; Bredenkamp, Andrew
In this paper we present the linguistic resources -the text handling and the linguistic processing modules- which have been developed for the
MELISSA project using the ALEP platform. In
particular, we will see how generic (large scale)
grammars involving deep linguistic analysis can
be efficiently used for NL interfaces, and how
a modularized design of the linguistic resources
allows us to deal with the peculiarities of sub-languages, while at the same time keeping the
resources as general as possible.
146.
Linguistic processing modules in ALEP for natural language interfaces
- Marimon Felipe, Montserrat; Theofilidis, Axel; Declerck, Thierry; Bredenkamp, Andrew
In this paper we present the linguistic resources -the text handling and the linguistic processing modules- which have been developed for the
MELISSA project using the ALEP platform. In
particular, we will see how generic (large scale)
grammars involving deep linguistic analysis can
be efficiently used for NL interfaces, and how
a modularized design of the linguistic resources
allows us to deal with the peculiarities of sub-languages, while at the same time keeping the
resources as general as possible.
147.
Multiobjective Optimization With Linguistic
- Christer Carlsson
Generalizing our earlier results on optimization with linguistic variables
[3, 6, 7] we introduce a novel statement of fuzzy multiobjective mathematical
programming problems and provide a method for findig a fair solution
to these problems. Suppose we are given a multiobjective mathematical programming
problem in which the functional relationship between the decision
variables and the objective functions is not completely known. Our
knowledge-base consists of a block of fuzzy if-then rules, where the antecedent
part of the rules contains some linguistic values of the decision variables,
and the consequence part consists of a linguistic value of the objective
functions. We suggest the use of Tsukamoto's fuzzy reasoning method to...
148.
Los cambios intermodélicos en los programas de investigación idealista de la Lingüística
- Jiménez Ruiz, Juan Luis
The discipline of epistemology of linguistics is divided into a synchronic component, philosophy of linguistic, & a diachronic component, historiography of linguistics, the latter addresses changes in patterns of linguistics research through two types of analysis: (1) cinematic, describing entities involved in changes & types & forms of changes, & (2) dynamic, identifying causes & triggers of change. Whereas the oppositive approach based on (1) attempts to account for identity through change, the linear approach based on (2) investigates continuity across breaches or disjuncture. In this framework, the idealist paradigm in the philosophy of language can be traced from Platon...
149.
Automatic Linguistic Segmentation
- Andreas Stolcke,Elizabeth Shriberg
As speech recognition moves toward more unconstrained domains
such as conversational speech, we encounter a need to be able to
segment (or resegment) waveforms and recognizer output into linguistically
meaningful units, such a sentences. Toward this end,
we present a simple automatic segmenter of transcripts based on
N-gram language modeling. We also study the relevance of several
word-level features for segmentation performance. Using only
word-level information, we achieve 85% recall and 70% precision
on linguistic boundary detection.
150.
Issues in Linguistic Segmentation
- Janyce M. Wiebe
This paper addresses discourse structure from the perspective of understanding.
It would perhaps help us understand the nature of discourse relations if we better understood
what units of a text can be related to one another. In one major theory of discourse
structure, Rhetorical Structure Theory (Mann & Thompson 1988; hereafter simply RST), the
smallest possible linguistic units that can participate in a rhetorical relation are called units,
151.
Linguistic Databases of the American Linguistic Atlas Project (ALAP)
- William A. Kretzschmar
During the 1980s we began to
store and manipulate linguistic
data from ALAP on computers.
152.
Retrospectiva: 20 años de la revista Estudios de lingüística, Universidad de Alicante
- Albaladejo Mayordomo, Tomás
153.
Retrospectiva: 20 años de la revista Estudios de lingüística, Universidad de Alicante
- Albaladejo Mayordomo, Tomás
154.
De los neogramáticos al tradicionalismo: evolución del pensamiento lingüístico de Ramón Menéndez Pidal
- Alonso-Cortés Manteca, Ángel
155.
Embustes e invenciones en el lenguaje de Fray Antonio de Guevara : Ensayo de estilística lingüística
- Quiroga Salcedo, César E.
156.
Una mirada desde la alcantarilla puede ser una visión del mundo : Los textos del grotesco lingüístico de Alejandra Pizarnik
- Mallol, Anahí Diana
157.
Linguistic Variation and Computation
- John Nerbonne
vary along geographical or social
lines or along lines of age and
gender. Variationist data is available
and challenging, in particular for DIALECTOLOGY,
the study of geograph-
ical variation, which will be the focus
of this paper, although we present approaches
we expect to transfer smoothly
to the study of variation correlating with
other extralinguistic variables. Techniques
fom computational linguistics
on the one hand, and standard statis-
tical data reduction techniques on the
other, not only shed light on this classic
linguistic problem, but they also suggest
avenues for exploring the question
at more abstract levels, and perhaps for
seeking the determinants of variation.
158.
Linguistic Variation and Computation
- John Nerbonne
vary along geographical or social
lines or along lines of age and
gender. Variationist data is available
and challenging, in particular for DIALECTOLOGY,
the study of geographical
variation, which will be the focus
of this paper, although we present approaches
we expect to transfer smoothly
to the study of variation correlating with
other extralinguistic variables. Techniques
from computational linguistics
on the one hand, and standard statistical
data reduction techniques on the
other, not only shed light on this classic
linguistic problem, but they also suggest
avenues for exploring the question
at more abstract levels, and perhaps for
seeking the determinants of variation.
159.
Linguistic And Computational Semantics*
- Brian Cantwell Smith
We argue that because the very concept of computation rests on
notions of interpretation, the semantics of natural languages and the
semantics of computational formalisms are in the deepest sense the
same subject. The attempt to use computational formalisms in aid of
an explanation of natural language semantics, therefore, is an
enterprise that must be undertaken with particular care. We descnbe
a framework for semantical analysis that we have used in the
computational realm, and suggest that it may serve to underwrite
computationally-oriented linguistic ser,,antics as well. The major
feature of this framework is the explicit recognition of both the
declarative and the procedural import of meaningful expressions; we
argue that...
160.
Learning Distributed Linguistic Classes
- Stephan Raaijmakers
Error-correcting output codes (ECOC) have
emerged in machine learning as a successful
implementation of the idea of distributed
classes. Monadic class symbols are replaced
by bit strings, which are learned by an ensemble
of binary-valued classifiers (dichotomizers).
In this study, the idea of ECOC is applied to
memory-based language learning with local (knearest
neighbor) classifiers. Regression analysis
of the experimental results reveals that, in
order for ECOC to be successful for language
learning, the use of the Modified Value Difference
Metric (MVDM) is an important factor,
which is explained in terms of population density
of the class hyperspace.
1 Introduction
Supervised learning methods applied to natural
language classification tasks commonly operate
on high-level symbolic representations,
with linguistic classes that...
