The originality of this work leads in tackling text compression using an unsupervised method, based on a deep linguistic analysis, and without resorting on a learning corpus. This work presents a system for dependent tree pruning, while preserving the syntactic coherence and the main informational contents, and led to an operational software, named COLIN. Experiment results show that our compre...

In the past, NLP has always been based on the explicit or implicit use of linguistic knowledge. In classical computer linguistic applications explicit rule based approaches prevail, while machine learning algorithms use implicit knowledge for generating linguistic knowledge. The question behind this work is: how far can we go in NLP without assuming explicit or implicit linguistic knowledge? Ho...

In this paper, we are going to propose an approach to design linguistic models which are accurate to a high degree and may be suitably interpreted. This approach will be based on the development of a Hierarchical System of Linguistic Rules learning methodology. This methodology has been thought as a refinement of simple linguistic models which, preserving their descriptive power, introduces sma...

The challenge of predicting meme success has gained attention from researchers, largely due to the increased availability of social media data. Many models focus on structural features of online social networks as predictors of meme success. The current work takes a different approach, predicting meme success from linguistic features. We propose predictive power is gained by grounding memes in ...

This chapter provides readers a systematic and panoramic view of LDC formulation and various LDC designs under different criteria. 1. LDC 1.

Binding theory is the component of grammar that regulates the interpretation of noun phrases. Certain syntactic configurations involving picture noun phrases (PNPs) are problematic for the standard formulation of binding theory, which has prompted competing proposals for revisions of the theory. Some authors have proposed an account based on structural constraints, while others have argued that...

This article pursues the idea of inferring aspects of phonological underlying forms directly from surface contrasts by looking at optimality theoretic linguistic systems (Prince & Smolensky, 1993/2004). The main result proves that linguistic systems satisfying certain conditions have the faithful contrastive feature property: Whenever 2 distinct morphemes contrast on the surface in a particular...

2. However, it is with deep disappointment that, at the conclusion of this process, it is clear our voices have not been heard and reflected in the conference outcomes. The negotiations started with analyses of the failings of the Brussels Programme of Action, also reflected in UNCTAD’s LDC report 2010. These showed that development partners failed to deliver their commitments to provide adequa...

Linguistic politeness (LP) refers to the set of “linguistic features mediating norms of social behaviour, in relation to such notions as courtesy, rapport, deference and distance” (Crystal 2008). Although researchers (e.g. Eelen 2001, Watts 2003) agree that it is intimately connected to normativity, group hierarchy and cooperation – the core questions of human ethology and human behavioural eco...

Large-scale corpus development demands substantial infrastructure. As part of this infrastructure, the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) has adopted the Annotation Graph Toolkit (AGTK) as a primary resource for annotation tool development. This paper reports on LDC’s experiences using AGTK to develop and implement highly customized annotation tools for a variety of large-scale corpus creation ef...