Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are gaining popularity in software engineering methods for concurrent and real-time systems. They are increasingly supported in software engineering tools to capture, for instance, system requirements, test scenarios, and simulation traces. MSCs have been standardized by ITU-T in Recommendation Z.120 [15]. However, various aspects of environment behavior remain un...

We consider two different data sets of syntactic parameters and we discuss how to detect relations between parameters through a heat kernel method developed by Belkin–Niyogi, which produces low dimensional representations of the data, based on Laplace eigenfunctions, that preserve neighborhood information. We analyze the different connectivity and clustering structures that arise in the two dat...

In this paper, we study the problem of syntactic analysis of Dialectal Arabic (DA). Actually, corpora are considered as an important resource for the automatic processing of languages. Thus, we propose a method of creating a treebank for the Tunisian Arabic (TA) “Tunisian Treebank” in order to adapt an Arabic parser to treat the TA which is considered as a variant of the Arabic language.

This study examined whether phrasal prosody can impact toddlers' syntactic analysis. French noun-verb homophones were used to create locally ambiguous test sentences (e.g., using the homophone as a noun: [le bébésouris] [a bien mangé] - [the baby mouse] [ate well] or using it as a verb: [le bébé] [sourità sa maman] - [the baby] [smiles to his mother], where brackets indicate prosodic phrase bou...

In this work we take a view of syntactic analysis as processing ‘raw’, running text instead of idealised, pre-segmented inputs—a task we dub document parsing. We observe the state of the art in sentence boundary detection and tokenisation, and their effects on syntactic parsing (for English), observing that common evaluation metrics are ill-suited for the comparison of an ‘end-to-end’ syntactic...

We present a new treebank of English and French technical forum content which has been annotated for grammatical errors and phrase structure. This double annotation allows us to empirically measure the effect of errors on parsing performance. While it is slightly easier to parse the corrected versions of the forum sentences, the errors are not the main factor in making this kind of text hard to...

Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are gaining popularity in software engineering methodsfor concurrent and real-time systems. They are increasingly supported in software engineer-ing tools to capture, for instance, system requirements, test scenarios, and simulation traces.MSCs have been standardized by ITU-T in Recommendation Z.120 [15]. However, various as-pects of environmen...

The interest in dependency grammar has clearly been on the rise in the last 10– 15 years. The parsing community has seen a number of benefits in the use of and parsing with dependency-based representations of syntactic phenomena. On the one hand, dependency trees are much simpler than phrase-structure trees – they contain exactly the same number of nodes as there are tokens in the sentence. The...

Recent research suggests that the brain routinely binds together information from gesture and speech. However, most of this research focused on the integration of representational gestures with the semantic content of speech. Much less is known about how other aspects of gesture, such as emphasis, influence the interpretation of the syntactic relations in a spoken message. Here, we investigated...

In the framework of statistical machine translation (SMT), correspondences between the words in the source and the target language are learned from bilingual corpora on the basis of so-called alignment models. Many of the statistical systems use little or no linguistic knowledge to structure the underlying models. In this paper we argue that training data is typically not large enough to suÆcie...