This paper describes the development of a statistical machine translation system between French and English for scientific papers. This system will be closely integrated into the French HAL open archive, a collection of more than 100.000 scientific papers. We describe the creation of in-domain parallel and monolingual corpora, the development of a domain specific translation system with the cre...

In this paper we describe the creation of the Japanese SemCor (JSEMCOR) sensetagged corpus of Japanese. The corpus is a translation of the English SEMCOR, with senses projected across from English. The final corpus consists of 14,169 sentences with 150,555 content words of which 58,265 are sense tagged. The corpus is one of the corpora used to provide sense frequency data for the Japanese Wordnet.

This paper will discuss issues relevant to corpus development and publication at the LDC and will illustrate those issues by examining the history of three LDC corpora. This paper will also briefly examine alternative corpus creation and distribution methods and their challenges. The intent of this paper is to increase the available linguistic resources by describing the regulatory and technica...

Domain portability and adaptation of NLP components and Word Sense Disambiguation systems present new challenges. The difficulties found by supervised systems to adapt might change the way we assess the strengths and weaknesses of supervised and knowledgebased WSD systems. Unfortunately, all existing evaluation datasets for specific domains are lexical-sample corpora. With this paper we want to...

Studies of the overall structure of vocabulary and its dynamics became possible due to creation of diachronic text corpora, especially Google Books Ngram. This article discusses the question of core change rate and the degree to which the core words cover the texts. Different periods of the last three centuries and six main European languages presented in Google Books Ngram are compared. The ma...

This paper describes a new open source architecture for unit-selection based speech synthesis called BOSS (Bonn Open Synthesis System). It is built up modularly, with communications between modules taking place in a fixed format. This makes the addition, deletion and substitution of modules very easy. The strict separation between data and algorithms allows for the simple creation of new speech...

This paper is devoted to the use of two tools for creating morphologically annotated linguistic corpora: UniParser and the EANC platform. The EANC platform is the database and search framework originally developed for the Eastern Armenian National Corpus (www.eanc.net) and later adopted for other languages. UniParser is an automated morphological analysis tool developed specifically for creatin...

The aim of this paper is to introduce a methodological solution for the design and exploitation of a corpus which is dedicated to pedagogical goals. In particular, I will argue for a pedagogically appropriate corpus annotation and query, and for the enrichment of such a corpus with additional materials (including corpusbased tasks and exercises). The solution will be illustrated with the help o...

Hallå Norden is a web site with information regarding mobility between the Nordic countries in five different languages; Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Finnish. We wanted to create a Nordic cross-language dictionary for the use in a cross-language search engine for Hallå Norden. The entire set of texts on the web site was treated as one multilingual parallel corpus. From this we extr...