As most of the machine-readable dictionaries contain clearly insufficient information about multiword lexical units, there is a constant need to extend and tune specialized lexical databases to account for new expressions. In this paper, we present a system exclusively based on statistics that massively extracts from unrestricted text corpora contiguous and noncontiguous rigid multiword lexical...

This paper presents an extension of the standard approach used for bilingual lexicon extraction from comparable corpora. We study the ambiguity problem revealed by the seed bilingual dictionary used to translate context vectors and augment the standard approach by a Word Sense Disambiguation process. Our aim is to identify the translations of words that are more likely to give the best represen...

Past work on English coordination has focused on coordination scope disambiguation. In Japanese, detecting whether coordination exists in a sentence is also a problem, and the state-of-the-art alignmentbased method specialized for scope disambiguation does not perform well on Japanese sentences. To take the detection of coordination into account, this paper introduces a ‘bypass’ to the alignmen...

We 1 present a method for automatically extracting a Stochastic Lexicalized Tree Grammar (SLTG) from an HPSG source grammar and a given corpus. Processing of a SLTG is performed by a specialized fast parser. The approach has been tested on a large English grammar and has been shown to achieve a speed-up by a factor of better than 10 compared to parsing with a highly tuned HPSG parser. Our appro...

Does the lateral temporal cortex require acoustic exposure in order to become specialized for speech processing? Six hearing participants and six congenitally deaf participants, all with spoken English as their first langugage, were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging while performing a simple speech-reading task. Focal activation of the left lateral temporal cortex was signific...

This paper describes an innovative component of an e-learning platform targeted at second language training of medical professionals. This component provides interactive video learning material in three European languages: English, German and Spanish. The implemented prototype integrates storytelling technology with NLP and dynamic web engineering. Starting by the automatic annotation of releva...

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