Urdu is a New Indo-Aryan language which uses case markers to express differing semantic functions. The case marker ko marks accusative and dative. It is also used to express a few other spatial and temporal functions. We have studied a variety of semantic usages of ko and propose an unifying explantion of all the diverse usages. We assume that it originated as a spatial postposition from a Sans...

This paper describes a method to construct a case frame dictionary automatically from a raw corpus. The main problem is how to handle the diversity of verb usages. We collect predicate-argument examples, which are distinguished by the verb and its closest case component in order to deal with verb usages, from parsed results of a corpus. Since these couples multiply to millions of combinations, ...

Situations of collaborative working are more and more complex and various in organizations. Such diversification is little studied in the literature. Researches about “technologies usages” in “collaborative situations” mainly focus on specific contexts where a given group is using a specific technology. In this paper, we focus on the richness of a real world environnement of collaboration techn...

We focus on non-standard usages of common words on social media. In the context of social media, words sometimes have other usages that are totally different from their original. In this study, we attempt to distinguish non-standard usages on social media from standard ones in an unsupervised manner. Our basic idea is that nonstandardness can be measured by the inconsistency between the expecte...

Sida acuta is shrub belonging to Malvaceae family. The plant is widely distributed in the subtropical regions where it is found in bushes, in farms and around habitations. Surveys conducted in indigenous places revealed that the plant had many traditional usages that varied from one region to another. The most cited illnesses are fever, headache and infections diseases. Indeed, many laboratory ...