Use of Existing Institutional Resources

Common Resources and Institutional Sustainability

Organizing Space in Time - Discovering Existing Resources

Flexible societies require flexible environments. Due to economical, ecological and social reasons it can be more efficient taking advantage of existing architecture rather than creating new buildings. A Web based information system is proposed which can support the distribution of information for ‘temporal available space’ for providers and users. Potential providers are able to store their sp...

Leveraging Existing Resources using Generalized Expectation Criteria

It is difficult to apply machine learning to many real-world tasks because there are no existing labeled instances. In one solution to this problem, a human expert provides instance labels that are used in traditional supervised or semi-supervised training. Instead, we want a solution that allows us to leverage existing resources other than complete labeled instances. We propose the use of gene...

Extracting Dependency Frames from Existing Lexical Resources

One method for evaluating a wide-coverage parser involves measuring how accurately it identifies dependency relations. The construction of a grammar which outputs dependency relations requires a lexicon with detailed information on subcategorization and dependency. We discuss how such a lexicon can be constructed automatically for a wide-coverage lexicalist grammar for Dutch by extracting the r...

Adapting VerbNet to French using existing resources

VerbNet is an English lexical resource for verbs that has proven useful for English NLP due to its high coverage and coherent classification. Such a resource doesn’t exist for other languages, despite some (mostly automatic and unsupervised) attempts. We show how to semi-automatically adapt VerbNet using existing resources designed for different purposes. This study focuses on French and uses t...