Graeme Ritchie’s book is definitely a learning experience. Reader-friendly, written in a lucid style, and yet rigorous in argumentation, it is a pleasure to read. Ritchie takes his readers on a tour of selected sights of the complex world of humor research and shows them his perception of things: this is the perspective of a formal linguist, who spent most of his professional life dealing with ...

While reading the preceding chapters in this volume, on Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America, I kept trading two distinct hats on my bald head: one for the theoretical linguist interested in the cognitive aspects of language contact and language evolution, the other for the MIT professor challenged by social injustice in language policy and education in my native Haiti an...

Service adoption analysis is a useful instrument for reducing the risk of new service development and launch. The purpose of this study is to develop a 2-tuple fuzzy linguistic approach for assessing the intention level of service adoption. In doing so, a theoretical framework for service adoption analysis is proposed. Under this framework, a 2-tuple fuzzy linguistic approach is then proposed f...

In this paper we present a general purpose grammar for the deep linguistic processing of Portuguese that delivers high precision grammatical analysis and detailed meaning representations. We present the main design features and evaluation results concerning the grammar’s coverage as well as its ability to produce correct grammatical analyses.

This text introduces the themed issue “Imperialism, Internationalism and Education in Africa: Connected Histories”. It provides an overview of history education twentieth-century Africa, highlighting its major problems, themes, actors. Arguing for a transnational connected approach to this field research, it also explains how four papers included allow address multiple entanglements between edu...

This paper, the 5 in a series of biennial progress reports, reviews the activities of the Linguistic Data Consortium with particular emphasis on general trends in the language resource landscape and on changes that distinguish the two years since LDC’s last report at LREC from the preceding 8 years. After providing a perspective on the current landscape of language resources, the paper goes on ...

In this paper we present LXGram, a general purpose grammar for the deep linguistic processing of Portuguese that delivers high precision grammatical analysis and detailed meaning representations. We present the main design features and evaluation results on the grammar’s coverage as well as its ability to produce correct grammatical analyses.

The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) has created various annotated linguistic data for a variety of common task evaluation programs and projects to create shared linguistic resources. The majority of these annotated linguistic data were created with highly customized annotation tools developed at LDC. The Annotation Graph Toolkit (AGTK) has been used as a primary infrastructure for annotation t...