Introduction The language documentation projects of the DOBES program [1] are entering a new stage. In the first years of the program the projects were mainly occupied with the collection of video and audio recordings of a broad variety of spoken text genres in various contexts and socio-cultural interactions. Most of the material is described by metadata and stored in the archive for linguisti...

Corpus linguists, including lexicographers, use methods which are often called 'inductive'. That is, they study large corpora or large data sets (such as wordfrequency lists) derived from these corpora, in order to identify patterns in the data. There is detailed discussion of a few statistical techniques (e.g. for identifying significant collocations), but little general discussion of the comb...

An automated system for detection of head movements is described. The goal is to label relevant head gestures in video of American Sign Language (ASL) communication. In the system, a 3D head tracker recovers head rotation and translation parameters from monocular video. Relevant head gestures are then detected by analyzing the length and frequency of the motion signal’s peaks and valleys. Each ...

A model is presented that addresses both the distribution and comprehension of different forms of referring expressions in language. This model is expressed in a formalism (Kamp & Reyle, 1993) that uses interpretive rules to map syntactic representations onto representations of discourse. Basic interpretive rules are developed for names, pronouns, definite descriptions, and quantified descripti...

the present article intends to study badr shakir al sayyab poetries in descriptive – analytical method by place semiotics which is paid attention by linguists. the outcome is that the study of place semiotics assists us to find the place beauties in sayyab poetries and discover the hidden treasures inside his poetry by the cities and villages he met his beloved. this article has been done based...

Translation is a use of language. Like any such use, it may be performed intuitively or after specific training. Until our generation all translation had to be performed without the assistance of mechanical aids. Less than forty years ago several eminent scientists — non-linguists — proposed that the newly developed machine, labeled computer, might devote some of its capabilities to translation...

Lexicon schemas and their use are discussed in this paper from the perspective of lexicographers and field linguists. A variety of lexicon schemas have been developed, with goals ranging from computational lexicography (DATR) through archiving (LIFT, TEI) to standardization (LMF, FSR). A number of requirements for lexicon schemas are given. The lexicon schemas are introduced and compared to eac...

This paper provides an account of the syntactic and semantic representations used in Te Kaitito, a bilingual English/Māori natural language processing system. With the exception of some very simple systems (e.g. Leslie, 1998), the grammar given in Te Kaitito is the first implemented computational grammar for Māori, indeed (we believe) for any Polynesian language. It is therefore of interest to ...

The performance of most NLP applications relies upon the quality of linguistic resources. The creation, maintenance and enrichment of those resources are a labour-intensive task. In this paper we present the NLP architecture OAL, designed to assist computational linguists in the whole process of the development of resources in an industrial context: from corpora compilation to quality assurance...

For most languages, including Polish, big error corpora are lacking. Traditional error corpora are collected and annotated by linguists, and the process is manual or only slightly automated. The task is therefore tedious and costly, and the results represent linguists’ knowledge about correct usage. This requires additional work to avoid theory-laden distortion of data. In this paper, I will sh...