Named Entity (NE) information is critical for Information Extraction (IE) tasks. However, the cost of manually annotating sufficient data for training purposes, especially for multiple languages, is prohibitive, meaning automated methods for developing resources are crucial. We investigate the automatic generation of NE annotated data in German from Wikipedia. By incorporating structural featur...

Rhotics, generally believed to be phonetically heterogeneous – are usually classified into one group of sounds due to their similar phonological behaviour and their diachronic and synchronic alternation [13, 12, 31, and 1]. Previous research has shown considerable segmental variation, especially in the realisation of /r/ in German which lead some authors to conclude that a positive description ...

Abstract In the field of machine translation, significant progress has been made by using statistical methods. In this paper we suggest a statistical machine translation system for Sign Language and written language, especially for the language pair German Sign Language (DGS) and German. After introducing the system’s architecture, statistical machine translation in general and notation systems...

An epidemiological survey undertaken in Kenya indicated that 2 previously well-established factors, namely decline in reproductive efficiency with age, and non-seasonality of canine reproductive parameters, hold true for German shepherd (GSD) bitches in Kenya. Data collection forms were distributed to randomly selected GSD breeders and information so obtained was verified using East African Ken...

Rakheli (Rachel) Hever, Reuma De Groot, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Email: [email protected], [email protected] Maarten De Laat, The University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, [email protected] Andreas Harrer, Ulrich Hoppe, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany, Email: [email protected], [email protected] Bruce M. McLaren, Oliver Scheuer, Deutsches Fo...

Two central characteristics of Catholicism in Southwest Germany were clericalism and communalism. Clericalism meant, especially in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, that German Catholics demanded that priests, especially resident priests, perform and sanctify church rituals. Communalism meant that village communes played a central role in the supervision of the rural clergy and in the o...