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AbstractTo facilitate future research in unsupervised induction of syntactic structure and to standardize best-practices, we propose a tagset that consists of twelve universal part-of-speech categories. In addition to the tagset, we develop a mapping from 25 different treebank tagsets to this universal set. As a result, when combined with the …...

AbstractLarge scale annotated corpora of child language can be of great value in assessing theoretical proposals regarding language acquisition models. For example, they can help determine whether the type and amount of data required by a proposed language acquisition model can actually be found in a naturalistic data sample. To …...

AbstractFrequency lists and/or lexicons contain information about the words and their statistics. They tend to find their “readers” among language learners, language teachers, linguists and lexicographers. Making them available in electronic format helps to expand the target group to cover language engineers, computer programmers and other specialists working in such …...

AbstractThis paper presents preliminary results of an effort aiming at the creation of a morphological dictionary of Polish, PoliMorf, available under a very liberal BSD-style license. The dictionary is a result of a merger of two existing resources, SGJP and Morfologik and was prepared within the CESAR/META-NET initiative. The work …...

AbstractIn this paper, we present HunOr, the first multi-domain Hungarian―Russian parallel corpus. Some of the corpus texts have been manually aligned and split into sentences, besides, named entities also have been annotated while the other parts are automatically aligned at the sentence level and they are POS-tagged as well. The …...

AbstractIn this paper, we present corpus-based procedures to semi-automatically discover features relevant for the study of recent language change in scientific registers. First, linguistic features potentially adherent to recent language change are extracted from the SciTex Corpus. Second, features are assessed for their relevance for the study of recent language …...

AbstractLogical metonymies like """"The author began the book"""" involve the interpretation of events that are not realized in the sentence (Covert events: -> """"writing the book""""). The Generative Lexicon (Pustejovsky 1995) provides a qualia-based account of covert event interpretation, claiming that the covert event is retrieved from the qualia structure …...

. In this article, we focus on the problem of adapting an open-domain question- answering system to a specialized domain, the medical domain in the present case with family doctors as target users. More precisely, we tackle this problem by adding to an open-domain system the capability to exploit the …...

. Several research efforts tackled medical entity recognition from texts. However, to our knowledge, there are no comparative studies for the following approaches: (i) the extraction of noun phrases in an independent step before the final categorization step and (ii) identifying simultaneously entity boundaries and categories. In this paper, we …...

. This work uses parallel monolingual corpora for a detailed study of the task of sub- sentential paraphrase acquisition. We argue that the scarcity of this type of resource is com- pensated by the fact that it is the most suited type for studies on paraphrasing. We propose a large …...

_______________________________________________________________________________________________ The sound of you The sound of you The sound of you The sound of yourrrr lips lips lips lips: electrophysiological correl : electrophysiological correl : electrophysiological correl : electrophysiological correlates of audio ates of audio ates of audio ates of audio----haptic haptic haptic haptic speech perce speech perce …...

_______________________________________________________ The Labial-Coronal effect in Italian Some studies have shown that there is a Labial-Coronal order preference both in children’s productions at the first-word stage and in the lexicons of various world languages. This Labial-Coronal effect (LC effect) has recently been studied in experimental phonetics. The goal of our study …...

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ fMRI methodology for cognitive process study of speech production recovery In order to validate an fMRI experiment, four participants were examined using functional magnetic resonance imaging while executing oro-facial movements, vowel and syllable production. This protocol will be used with patients who underwent oral resection. The study’s results should …...

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Second Language Phonology Acquisition: the perception of French consonant groups by Vietnamese learners. This work addresses foreign language learning and specifically with the acquisition of French consonant groups by Vietnamese learners intermediate and advanced levels. It is an experimental study on the perception of French consonant sequences, taking into …...

Assessment of the acoustic models performance in the ageing voice case for ASR system adaptation Our study concerns the integration of an automatic speech recognition system in a social inclusion product designed for elderly people. Due to voice change with age, speech recognition systems present higher word error rate when …...

Prediction of transcription indexability This paper presents a semantic confidence measure that aims to predict the relevance of automatic transcripts for a task of Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR). The proposed predicting method relies on the combination of Automatic Speech Recognition confidence measure and a Semantic Compacity Index, that estimates the …...

Distance encoding and speech/gesture cooperation : a developmental study on multimo- dal pointing The aim of this paper is to characterize, through the deictic process use, the speech/gesture interaction during language developement. Participants, both adults and children, had to de- signate with a deictic word and/or a deictic gesture a …...

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Defining a motor perturbation paradigm for speech perception studies To display the role of motor knowledge in speech perception it may be necessary to attempt to modulate access to such knowledge during perception, in double tasks paradigms. But the motor task supposed to modulate perception must not produce itself …...

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Production of French vowels by Japanese-speaking learners: effect of the native dialect It was shown in previous studies that Tokyo-Japanese speakers have difficulty in learning to produce the French /u/, characterized by a grouping of the first two formants below 1000 Hz, and that they tend to produce a …...

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Oscillatory cortical activity and intelligibility of degraded speech Many neurocognitive aspects associated with the processing of speech were up to now studied by the analysis of event-related potentials. However, none of these cortical responses can be considered as a direct indicator of successful lexical access during speech comprehension. The …...