ProLiV Animated Process-modeler of Complex (Computational) Linguistic Methods and Theories is a fully modular, flexible, XML-based stand-alone Java application, used for computer-assisted learning in Natural Language Processing (NLP) or Computational Linguistics (CL). Having a flexible and extendible architecture, the system presents the students, by means of text, of visual elements (such as p...

Requirements elicitation is one of the first processes of software development and it is intended to be hand-made by means of analyst-stakeholder interviews. As a naturallanguage-based activity, requirements elicitation can take advantages of Computational Linguistics techniques, in order to achieve better results looking for automation in this field. In this paper we survey some of the work re...

One of the most thought-provoking proposals I have heard recently came from Lori Levin during the discussion that concluded the EACL 2009 Workshop on the Interaction between Linguistics and Computational Linguistics. Lori proposed that we should form an ACL Special Interest Group on Linguistics. At first blush, I found the idea weird: Isn’t it a little like the American Academy of Pediatrics fo...

Students in Computational Linguistics often lack experience in building robust and scalable software components. Thus, student projects tend to be unstable and to work only under very special preconditions (e.g., a project has to be installed in a certain directory, or handles only single files instead of whole directories). Furthermore, if students have to build a system from scratch, they hav...

Unlike homopolymers, biopolymers are composed of specific sequences of different types of monomers. In proteins and RNA molecules, one-dimensional sequence information encodes a three-dimensional fold, leading to a corresponding molecular function. Such folded structures are not treated adequately through traditional methods of polymer statistical mechanics. A promising new way to solve problem...

is paper compares the two FGD-based annotation scenarios for Czech and for English, with the Czech as the basis. We discuss the secondary predication expressed by infinitive and its functions in Czech and English, respectively. We give a few examples of English constructions that do not have direct counterparts in Czech (e.g., tough movement and causative constructions with make, get, and have...

Quantitative linguistics (QL) is a discipline of linguistics, that, using real texts, studies languages with quantitative mathematical approaches, aiming to precisely describe and explain, with a system of mathematical laws, the operation and development of language systems. Later in this review, we will address the relationship between QL and computational linguistics. Quantitative Syntax Anal...

This contribution attempts a conceptual and practical introduction into the principles of wiring or constructing special machines for language processing tasks instead of programming a universal machine. Construction would in principle provide higher descriptive adequacy in computationally based linguistics. After all, our heads do not apply programs on stored symbol arrays but are appropriatel...