Interlanguage-links (ILLs) among Wikipedias are one of important multilingual resources. In this paper, we describe analysis results of ILLs in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English (CJKE) Wikipedias, and propose a cross-lingual keyword navigation system using ILLs. From analysis of ILLs, we found five patterns of ILLs. An overview of analysis results and the system are described.

These days there’s a computational version of everything. Computational biology, computational musicology, computational archaeology, etc, etc. Even movies are going digital. This chapter, as you might have guessed by now, thus explores the computational side of pragmatics. Computational pragmatics might be defined as the computational study of the relation between utterances and context. Like ...

A potentially fruitful area for applied linguistic research is the nature of the linguistic systems used by second language learners as they learn--or even after they appear to have stopped learning. It has been suggested at various times that the findings of this sort of research would be useful not only to language teachers and textbook writers, but also to our understanding of language conta...

This paper presents one of the linguistic resources developed in the scope of the ONOMASTICA European project. In terms of size, the interlanguage pronunciation lexicon represents a very small fraction of the global lexicon produced by the project. The interest of this research tool, however, derives from its particular contents: 1; 000 names from each of the 11 languages represented in the con...

This paper explores the use of a simple and computational optimality theoretic pragmatics (OT pragmatics, OTP) to the analysis of the rhetorical structure of texts. It introduces this variant of OTP briefly and then shows that it can be applied to explain coherence, rhetorical relations, discourse trees and context dependence using the occasional extra premiss. It thereby improves on existing a...

Developers of current agent communication languages (ACLs) have exploited the parallels between agent communication and human communication in developing the syntax and semantics of their languages. In this paper we extend the comparison of agent communication language to natural language by proposing an ACL pragmatics. Just as in natural language, the pragmatics of an ACL is the relationship b...

Building from the CHILDES dependency annotation scheme and on interlanguage POS annotation, we describe a syntactic annotation scheme developed for the data of second language learners. We encode subcategorization frames and underlying dependencies, in addition to the usual surface dependencies. The annotation scheme is relatively independent of language and can be mapped to learner errors.

This work follows mainly the ideas as well as the structure of Leech and Weisser’s article “Pragmatics and Dialogue”, Chapter 7 in “The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics” [Leech and Weisser, 2003]. First of all we will clarify what pragmatics is all about and on which philosophical and linguistic concepts it is founded. In particular we will consider speech acts and other concepts th...

The main concern of this article is to discuss some recent findings concerning the psychological reality of optimality-theoretic pragmatics and its central part – bidirectional optimization. A present challenge is to close the gap between experimental pragmatics and neo-Gricean theories of pragmatics. I claim that OT pragmatics helps to overcome this gap, in particular in connection with the di...