jean-jacques rousseau, écrivain illustre et philosophe révolutionnaire de l’âge des lumières, a recouru pendant les dernières années de sa vie à l’écriture des ouvrages autobiographiques. il y refléta le véritable portrait de soi-même grâce à une mémoire encombrée de souvenirs tumultueux. son œuvre autobiographique qui comprend les confessions, les dialogues et les rêveries du promeneur solitai...

In this paper, I present an explicit analysis of association with focus in Japanese. The proposed formal analysis, basically couched in Rooth's (1985) alternative semantics supported by the syntactic devices of HPSG, captures the behaviors of focus particles in Japanese in a fairly straightforward manner. Section 1 is devoted to a survey of data and definitions of key terms and concepts in this...

In this paper, I revise generalized phrase structure grammar (GPSG) linguistic theory so that it is more tractable and linguistically constrained. Revised GPSG is also easier to understand, use, and implement. I provide an account of topicalization, ex-plicative pronouns, and parasitic gaps in the revised system and conclude with suggestions for efficient parser design.

The investigation presented in this paper is a novel method in question answering (QA) that enables a QA system to gain performance through reuse of information in the answer to one question to answer another related question. Our analysis shows that a pair of question in a general open domain QA can have embedding relation through their mentions of noun phrase expressions. We present methods f...

PCFGs with latent annotations have been shown to be a very effective model for phrase structure parsing. We present a Bayesian model and algorithms based on a Gibbs sampler for parsing with a grammar with latent annotations. For PCFG-LA, we present an additional Gibbs sampler algorithm to learn annotations from training data, which are parse trees with coarse (unannotated) symbols. We show that...

Assisted rephrasing for Wikipedia contributors through Web-based validation This works describes initial experiments on the validation of paraphrases in context. Wikipedia’s revisions are used : we assume that a set of possible rewritings are available for a given phrase that has been rewritten in the encyclopedia’s revision history, and we attempt to find the subset of those rewritings that ca...