Linguistic peculiarities of Edward Lear’s limericks

Linguistic Contamination: Word-building Peculiarities and Stylistic Functions

The article investigates the linguistic and extralinguistic nature of contamination – a word-building pattern that seems to be on the rise in modern English. The relative productivity of contamination is traced down to several factors: first, the speaker’s intention to assert his individuality through punning and word-juggling; second, saving up time and physical and mental effort; third, camou...

INRIA-LEARs participation to ImageCLEF 2009

We participated in the Photo Annotation and Photo Retrieval tasks of ImageCLEF 2009. For the Photo Annotation task we compared TagProp, SVMs, and logistic discriminant (LD) models. TagProp is a nearest-neighbor based system that learns a distance measure between images to define the neighbors. In the second system a separate SVM is trained for each annotation word. The third system treats mutua...

Towards an Entertaining Natural Language Generation System: Linguistic Peculiarities of Japanese Fictional Characters

One of the key ways of making dialogue agents more attractive as conversation partners is characterization, as it makes the agents more friendly, humanlike, and entertaining. To build such characters, utterances suitable for the characters are usually manually prepared. However, it is expensive to do this for a large number of utterances. To reduce this cost, we are developing a natural languag...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

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