Three Words

Multiple constraints on three and four words

In this paper we investigate the maximal size of chains of equations on three or four words such that every time we add a new equation the set of solutions strictly decreases. We also investigate how large systems of pairwise independent or pairwise non-equivalent equations exist accepting purely non-periodic solutions.

Morphisms preserving the set of words coding three interval exchange

Words, words, words

‘Words, words, words.’ This was Hamlet’s reply to Polonius’ question, ‘What do you read, my lord?’ (Shakespeare, 1603) [1]. By repeating the word three times, Hamlet suggests that what he is reading is meaningless. Before launching the journal Archives of Public Health, we have asked ourselves: ‘Do we not already produce too many words too many journals?’ or in other words ‘What is the added va...

"Words, words, words".

The aim of this paper is to call to attention a very large and important area of human factors engineering that is almost entirely neglected. This area consists of the language and the words that are attached to the tools, machines, systems, and operations with which human factors engineers are concerned. Examples, illustrations, and data are cited to show that changes in the words used in man-...

Assigning stress to out-of-vocabulary words: three approaches

In this paper we address the task of automatically assigning primary stress to out-of-vocabulary words in English. This work forms a necessary component in a scansion system for English poetry. We propose three different approaches based on (1) word similarity, (2) handwritten linguistic rules and (3) machine learning. The first and last approach require stress-annotated corpora to train a mode...