We describe the creation of a linguistic plausibility dataset that contains annotated examples of language judged to be linguistically plausible, implausible, and every-thing in between. To create the dataset we randomly generate sentences and have them annotated by crowd sourcing over the Amazon Mechanical Turk. Obtaining inter-annotator agreement is a difficult problem because linguistic plau...

In the development of annotated corpora with deep linguistic representations, the category to be assigned to each markable (i.e. the fully fledged grammatical representation of each sentence) is so complex that it cannot be safely constructed manually and the annotation cannot be performed without some supporting application, viz. a computational grammar. This paper discusses and present soluti...

Even though considerable attention has been given to the polarity of words (positive and negative) and the creation of large polarity lexicons, research in emotion analysis has had to rely on limited and small emotion lexicons. In this paper we show how the combined strength and wisdom of the crowds can be used to generate a large, high-quality, word–emotion and word–polarity association lexico...

Consistent confusions — word misperceptions reported in an open set task with a high agreement across listeners — can be especially valuable in understanding the detailed processes underlying speech perception. The current study investigates the origin of a set of consistent confusions collected in a variety of masking conditions, by applying signal-level modifications to the stimuli eliciting ...

The TREC-8 Web Track defined ad hoc retrieval tasks over the 100 gigabyte VLC2 collection (Large Web Task) and a selected 2 gigabyte subset known as WT2g (Small Web Task). Here, the guidelines and resources for both tasks are described and results presented and analysed. Performance on the Small Web was strongly correlated with performance on the regular TREC Ad Hoc task. Little benefit was der...

This document describes the certification policy and PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) proposed by the ACTS project TRUMPET for inter-domain management between telecommunications providers, and for customer access to management functionality offered by providers. The PKI consists of one Certification Authority (CA) per provider, and one Inter-domain Management CA which certifies these CAs. At pre...