The LinGO Redwoods initiative is a seed activity in the design and development of a new type of treebank. While several mediumto large-scale treebanks exist for English (and for other major languages), pre-existing publicly available resources exhibit the following limitations: (i) annotation is mono-stratal, either encoding topological (phrase structure) or tectogrammatical (dependency) inform...

Dr Hatcher expresses concern about the use of the abbreviation ‘PWE’ rather than the phrase ‘person with epilepsy’, which he considers an offensive and stigmatising practice. As a researcher on stigma, I have some sympathy with Dr Hatcher’s position – to be abbreviated is a state unlikely to be welcomed by any of us, whether we have epilepsy or any other condition of human being. Dr Hatcher mak...

Language CoLLAGE is a collection of grammatical descriptions developed in the context of a grammar engineering graduate course with the LinGO Grammar Matrix. These grammatical descriptions include testsuites in well-formed interlinear glossed text (IGT) format, high-level grammatical characterizations called ‘choices files’, HPSG grammar fragments (capable of parsing and generation), and docume...

Preface The research presented in this thesis done in the context of the " Parallel Natural Language Interfaces " subproject of the IMPACT project. The IMPACT project was headed by the ING bank and founded by the organization for High Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN), itself partly funded by NWO. The goal of this subproject was to improve the performance of natural language interface...

Mobile multimedia networks are enlarging the Internet of Things (IoT) portfolio with a huge number of multimedia services for different applications. Those services run on dynamic topologies due to device mobility or failures and wireless channel impairments, such as mobile robots or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) environments for rescue or surveillance missions. In those scenarios, beaconless O...

This paper presents the reasoning behind the selection and design of a parser for the Lingo project on natural language interfaces at MCC. The major factors in the selection of the parsing algorithm were the choices of having a syntactically based grammar, using a graph-unification-based representation language, using Combinatory Categorial Grammars, and adopting a one-to-many mapping from synt...

Olfm1, a secreted highly conserved glycoprotein, is detected in peripheral and central nervous tissues and participates in neural progenitor maintenance, cell death in brain, and optic nerve arborization. In this study, we identified Olfm1 as a molecule promoting axon growth through interaction with the Nogo A receptor (NgR1) complex. Olfm1 is coexpressed with NgR1 in dorsal root ganglia and re...