Witnesses of medieval literary texts, preserved in manuscript, are layered objects, being almost exclusively copies of copies. This results in multiple and hard to distinguish linguistic strata – the author’s scripta interacting with the scriptae of the various scribes – in a context where literary written language is already a dialectal hybrid. Moreover, no single linguistic phenomenon allows ...

The paper outlines a text analytic project in progress on a corpus of entries in the historical burgh and council registers from Aberdeen, Scotland. Some preliminary output of the analysis is described. The registers run in a near-unbroken sequence form 1398 to the present day; the early volumes are a UNESCO UK listed cultural artefact. The study focusses on a set of transcribed pages from 1530...

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Phonetic typing using the English alphabet has become widely popular nowadays for social media and chat services. As a result, text containing various Bangla words phrases increasingly common. Existing transliteration tools display poor performance such texts. This paper proposes robust Three-stage Hybrid Transliteration (THT) framework that can transliterate both phonetic typed satisfactorily....

In this work we propose a hybrid unsupervised approach for semantic relation extraction from Italian and English texts. The system takes as input pairs of “distributionally similar” terms, possibly involved in a semantic relation. To validate and label the anonymous relations holding between the terms in input, the candidate pairs of terms are looked for on the Web in the context of reliable le...

What al+c the benefits of ttsing Natural [~anguagc (;cneratio,t in an industrial apl+lication? We have attempt t<) answer part (}f this qttcsti{}n with at descripti(}n of an assessment {}f three techniques for producing multiscntcntial text: sentiatutomatic fill-in-lhc-blank interfacing, automalic linguistic-and-tcmphltes hybrid generation, and hunlall writ ing. This asscssIllol]l used a black ...

Although traditionally seen as a languageindependent task, collocation extraction relies nowadays more and more on the linguistic preprocessing of texts (e.g., lemmatization, POS tagging, chunking or parsing) prior to the application of statistical measures. This paper provides a language-oriented review of the existing extraction work. It points out several language-specific issues related to ...

As a key factor in English grammar checking, subject-verb agreement evaluation plays an important part in assessing translated English texts. In this paper, we propose a hybrid method for subject-verb agreement evaluation on dependency grammars with the processing of phrase syntactic parsing and sentence simplification for subject-verb discovery. Experimental results on patent text show that we...

Museums are playing a more active role in modern societies beyond preserving a society’s cultural heritage. They have become an important learning environment and some of them even a tourist attraction. Traditional storytelling aid for museums consisting of texts and labels may not be personalized to fit each individual personal taste and are static sources of information. This paper introduces...