Clare Evans, 1960–97

Clare, Clere, and Clères

The name of Clare in Suffolk is one of the few major settlement names in East Anglia of unknown etymology. A similar mystery surrounds the Hampshire names Kingsclere, Highclere, and Burghclere, all containing the element clere which must have a single origin. Clères is a village north of Rouen in Normandy. There is a remarkable lack of variation on the early spellings of all these names, which ...

Lattice-Based Word Identification in CLARE

I argue that because of spelling and typing errors and other properties of typed text, the identification of words and word boundaries in general requires syntactic and semantic knowledge. A lattice representation is therefore appropriate for lexical analysis. I show how the use of such a representation in the CLARE system allows different kinds of hypothesis about word identity to be integrate...

Thank Evans!

In this paper we give a complete solution to the conjecture of Evans made in 1960 that if n— 1 cells of an nxn matrix are preassigned with no element repeated in any row or column then the remaining n — n+ 1 cells can be filled so as to produce a latin square. We in fact prove the stronger statement that n cells can be preassigned except in certain cases which we specify.

Lexical Processing in the CLARE System

1 Introduction In many language processing systems, uncertainty in the boundaries of linguistic units means that data are represented not as a well-defined sequence of units but as a lattice of possibilities. This is often the case in speech recognition, syntactic parsing and Japanese kana-kanji conversion. In contrast, however, it is often assumed that, for languages written with interword spa...

Clare: a Combined Language and Reasoning Engine