a rare case of leiomyoma of penis is reported and a review of literature coducted. this is the first such case yet repoted in copera cavernosa. it also was bigger than • 1 em. and had a nodular surface .

Systems for the detection and extraction of definitions are being developed for different purposes, such as glossaries creation [5, 3], lexical databases [6], ontologies [2], question answering [1], etc. All these systems use annotated corpora to build a set of rules or patterns capable to identify a definition in a different text. The basic structure of a definition should resemble an equation...

The classical “success story” of corpus annotation are the various syntax treebanks that provide structural analyses of sentences and have enabled researchers to develop a range of new and highly successful data-oriented approaches to sentence parsing. In recent years, however, a number of corpora have been constructed that provide annotations on the discourse level, i.e. information that reach...

The creation of signed language (SL) corpora presents special challenges to linguists. They are face-to-face visual-gestural languages that have no widely accepted written forms or standard specialist notation system, making even superficial transcription problematic. SL corpora need to be created taking these facts into account. Using the example of Auslan (Australian Sign Language) this paper...

English was the main focus of attention of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community for years. As a result, there are significantly more annotated linguistic resources in English than in any other language. Consequently, data-driven tools for automatic text or speech processing are developed mainly for English. Developing similar corpora and tools for other languages is an important issu...

In addition to showing how lexical units are related within a eld, domain-speciic thesauri give an idea of what subjects are important to that eld and are thus useful at many points in an information system. The major impediment to creation of thesauri has been the cost of their manual creation. We present here a number of automatic techniques that jointly produce a rst draft of a thesaurus fro...

We address the creation of cross-lingual textual entailment corpora by means of crowdsourcing. Our goal is to define a cheap and replicable data collection methodology that minimizes the manual work done by expert annotators, without resorting to preprocessing tools or already annotated monolingual datasets. In line with recent works emphasizing the need of large-scale annotation efforts for te...

Abstract This paper presents the project Stimmen fan Fryslân ‘Voices of Fryslân’. The relies on a smartphone application developed to involve local communities in creation speech corpora, particularly lesser used languages. lays out scientific and societal context project, showcases gives an overview results from that attracted more than 15,000 users. Some key methodological issues are consider...

This paper describes the creation of a bilingual corpus of inter-linked events for Italian and English. Linkage is accomplished through the Inter-Lingual Index (ILI) that links ItalWordNet with WordNet. The availability of this resource, on the one hand, enables contrastive analysis of the linguistic phenomena surrounding events in both languages, and on the other hand, can be used to perform m...