Abeillé and Godard (1994) seek to show that the rightward branching analysis of French tense auxiliaries shown in (1b), that I argued for in Manning (1992) and which is widely adopted in general, is wrong, and that rather we should adopt a flat analysis for this construction as shown in (1c), and they show how such an analysis can be realized within HPSG (Pollard and Sag 1994). (1) a. Je I vous...

This paper reviews the Super-exponential algorithm proposed by Shalvi and Weinstein for blind channel equalization. We show that the algorithm coincides with a gradient search of a maximum of a cost function, which belongs to a family of functions very relevant in blind channel equalization. This family traces back to Donoho’s work on minimum entropy deconvolution, and also underlies the Godard...

We study the Godard/CMA error surface in adapting the impulse response coefficients of a finite-length, tapped-delay-line filter to equalize a white, zero-mean, binary (21) source that suffers IS1 due to a linear channel. Our results arise primarily from examination of the expressions for the gradient and the Hessian in the baud-spaced equalizer parameter space of the cost-function in this part...

∗This paper originated in a course I taught at LLF in the winter of 2012—I would like to thank the participants of that course Gabriele Bilbiie, Danièle Godard, Jean-Marie Marandin, Marie Reetz, Isidora Stojanovic. For comments on and discussions concerning this paper, I would like to thank Anne Abeillé, Robin Cooper, Elisabet Engdahl, Ted Gibson, Philip Hofmeister, Philip Miller, Lis Northclif...

This article lies within the interactive virtual stories telling scope and proposes the use of fuzzy cognitive maps as a tool to model emotional behavior of virtual actors improvising in free interaction within the framework of a “nouvelle vague” scenario, as could Godard do. We show how fuzzy cognitive maps can be delocalized on each agent level to model autonomous agents within a virtual worl...

Adaptive equalization is an accepted method to mitigate the Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI) in wireless communication. Frequently, adaptive algorithm must needs transmission of well-known training sequence to track the time varying characteristics of the channel and hence make the most of superfluous bandwidth. It is also not viable to have training sequences in all types of transmissions (e. g...