The goal of this study was to predict the genders of players of the online game Second Life using linguistic patterns from their chat data. This was accomplished using a rich set of stylistic features combined with various machine learning models. This project builds upon a previous study done at Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab in which very few linguistic features were used. Results s...

Recent developments in deep linguistic processing give rise to renewed optimism concerning the practical applicability of advanced grammatical analysis. For HPSG parsing a breakthrough in efficiency was achieved through a new form of international collaboration that lead to improved combinations of methods in a rather systematic way. Yet efficiency is just one of the obstacles to the utilizatio...

Four new speech corpora have been added to the catalogue and will be briefly described. The BAS pronunciation dictionary PHONOLEX was extended by two new types of entries: empirically detected pronunciation variants and empirically collected word entries. Details will be given about the new Verbmobil II speech resources soon available via BAS and the European SpeechDat Car data collection. Apar...

In this paper we develop a new method for 2-tuple linguistic multiple attribute decision making, namely the 2-tuple linguistic generalized ordered weighted averaging distance (2LGOWAD) operator. This operator is an extension of the OWA operator that utilizes generalized means, distance measures and uncertain information represented as 2-tuple linguistic variables. By using 2LGOWAD, it is possib...

Because of the complexity of decision-making environment, the uncertainty of fuzziness and the uncertainty of grey maybe coexist in the problems of multi-attribute group decision making. In this paper, we study the problems of multi-attribute group decision making with hybrid grey attribute data (the precise values, interval numbers and linguistic fuzzy variables coexist, and each attribute val...

OBJECTIVE To propose a new approach for comparing genetic and linguistic diversity in populations belonging to distantly related groups. BACKGROUND Comparisons of linguistic and genetic differences have proved powerful tools to reconstruct human demographic history. Current models assume on both sides that similarities reflect either descent from common ancestry or the balance between isolati...

objectives: language development is often very slower in hearing impaired children compared with their normal peers. hearing impairment during childhood affects all aspects of speech production and language acquisition. it seems that hearing impaired people suffer from language and speech impairments such as production of complex linguistic structures. the purpose of this study is to determine ...

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.