The paper deals with the application of NLP technology in e-learning. We report our research on intelligent platforms for computermediated education. Some of the methods described in the paper have already taken part in the end-user applications that are in everyday use, others still wait for their implementation in the form of software products. The main message of the paper is that the langua...

Since the advent of the computer in 1945, computational research has by now become pervasive in just about all newly created as well as traditional fields. Nor has linguistics escaped this tidal surge. In fact, a pre-computer computational perspective had already been attempted when linguists examined their data utilizing scientific methods; computational linguistics was formalized after the em...

There is currently much interest in bringing together the tradition of categorial grammar, and especially the Lambek calculus, with the recent paradigm of linear logic to which it has strong ties. One active research area is designing non-commutative versions of linear logic (Abrusci 1995, Retor e 1993) which can be sensitive to word order while retaining the hypothetical reasoning capabilities...

Where does word formation information play a role in computational linguistics? Think of information retrieval where the parts of a word might contain the important information. If we want to find information in German on relaxation techniques, we need to look for the verb entspannen 'to relax' as well as for the derived noun Entspannung 'relaxation' and compounds containing Entspannung, such a...

Ambiguity and variability are two basic and pervasive phenomena char-acterizing lexical semantics. Their pervasiveness imposes the developmentof Natural Language Processing systems provided by computational modelsto represent them in the application domain. In this work we introducea computational model for lexical semantics based on Semantic Domains.This concept is inspired...