We are compiling a corpus of Dutch texts annotated with discourse structure and lexical cohesion, containing initially 80 texts from expository and persuasive genres. We are using this resource for corpus-based studies of discourse relations, discourse markers, cohesion, and genre differences. We are also exploring the possibilities of automatic text segmentation and semi-automatic discourse an...

We present initial work on an inexpensive approach for building largevocabulary lexical selection modules for hybrid RBMT systems by framing lexical selection as a sequence labeling problem. We submit that Maximum Entropy Markov Models (MEMMs) are a sensible formalism for this problem, due to their ability to take into account many features of the source text, and show how we can build a combin...

This paper describes some studies on the effect of the system vocabulary on the lexical choices of the users. There are many theories about human-human dialogues that could be useful in the design of spoken dialogue systems. This paper will give an overview of some of these theories and report the results from two experiments that examines one of these theories, namely lexical entrainment. The ...

Many lexical databases are modelled simply as digital version of paper dictionaries. However, for many purposes the demands on a lexical database are different from those on a dictionary database. Therefore, the MorDebe database system deviates from the design of dictionary databases in a number of important ways. Firstly, it puts different restrictions on the inclusion of words due to its less...

Systemic functional linguistics offers a grammar that is semantically organised, so that salient grammatical choices are made explicit. This paper describes the explication of these choices through the conversion of the Penn Treebank into a systemic functional grammar corpus. Developing such a resource can help connect work in natural language processing to a significant body of research dealin...

The present study aimed to shed light upon the differences of social practice of Persian translations of The Girl You Left Behind written by Jojo Moyes (2012) with original text in English based on Fairclough's (1995) model. In this regard, through a careful analysis of the source and target texts, English social prac- tice instances were selected along with their Persian equivalents as the cor...

This paper reports on an exploratory investigation as to whether classes of Urdu N-V complex predicates can be identified on the basis syntactic patterns and lexical choices associated with the N-V complex predicates. Working with data from a POS annotated corpus, we show that choices with respect to the number of arguments, case marking on subjects and which light verbs are felicitous with whi...