“Noms de dieux!” Gods at the borders

Contradictions at the Borders

1 The issue The purpose of this essay is to shed some light on a certain type of sentence, which I call a borderline contradiction. A borderline contradiction is a sentence of the form F a ∧ ¬F a, for some vague predicate F and some borderline case a of F , or a sentence equivalent to such a sentence. For example, if Jackie is a borderline case of 'rich', then 'Jackie is rich and Jackie isn't r...

Contrast Enhancement at Borders Spatial Contrast Enhancement at Borders

meanings, we use context to select the meaning intended by the speaker. But context is involved at an even earlier level in speech perception because it allows us to recognize sounds as words. We perceive spoken words as a sequence of vowel and consonant sounds, that is, as a sequence of phonemes. Perceptually, each phoneme seems fixed, but acoustically, a phoneme can vary considerably dependin...

Typage de noms toponymiques à des fins d'indexation géographique

This paper presents an automatic annotation of spatial expressions enabling the improvement of the indexing process of non-structured geographic information. The proposed method combines the use of specific intra-sentential relationships and external resources. It relies on expanded spatial named entities recognition to deduce a symbolic representation expressed in terms of semantic features, o...

Prolexbase - Un dictionnaire relationnel multilingue de noms propres

This paper presents the modelling of Proper Name domain defined by the Prolex project. This modelling is based on two main concepts: the Conceptual Proper Name and the Prolexeme. The Conceptual Proper Name do not represents the referent, but a point of view on this referent. It has a specific concept in each language, the Prolexeme, that is a structured family of lexemes. Around them, we have d...

Nommage non supervisé des personnes dans les émissions de télévision. Utilisation des noms écrits, des noms prononcés ou des deux ?