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In this paper we present the results of a study directed towards developing a lexical simplification module of an automatic simplification system for Spanish, intended for readers with cognitive disabilities. We here observe the word length and frequency distribution of two sets of texts that make up our parallel corpus, and we focus on cases of information expansion (through the insertion of d...

We propose a schema that characterizes how parts constitute wholes at diverse levels of organization, ranging from the atomic to the biological to the social. This schema of tags, organizers, attachers, and communicators provides a unified understanding of the structure, function, and dynamics of organization in physics, biology, and the cognitive and social sciences. We use this schema to iden...

Notre Dame and St. Mary's stu~dents will not have to make up class days missed as a result of the blizzard which began last Wednesday night and crippled much of the midwest. The announcement came yesterday as a joint decision from Fr. Ferdinand Brown, acting provost at Notre Dame, and Dr. James Duggan, St. Mary's president. Notre Dame announced yesterday that classes will resumf' today. St. Mar...

Text examples must be exploited in the acquisition of lexical structures. However, neither syntactic nor semantic features are provided by the text itself, and so acquisition must be aided by additional resources. We investigate the application of an existing resource, a set of lexical categories, as a prediction method. We present an algorithm that applies (a) top-down prediction based on lexi...