We propose a method that bilingually segments sentences in languages with no clear delimiter for word boundaries. In our model, we first convert the search for the segmentation into a sequential tagging problem, allowing for a polynomial-time dynamic-programming solution, and incorporate a control to balance monolingual and bilingual information at hand. Our bilingual segmentation algorithm, th...

Information extraction from HTML pages has been conventionally treated as plain text documents extended with HTML tags. However, the growing maturity and correct usage of HTML/XHTML formats open an opportunity to treat Web pages as trees, to mine the rich structural context in the trees and to learn accurate extraction rules. In this paper, we generalize the notion of delimiter developed for th...

Cloud computing appeals to private individuals and particularly enterprises at a progressive rate, but a noticeable percentage of them refuse it due to mistrust or missing commitment to security. The cryptosystem SecureString 2.0 was designed to outweigh these deficits through the support of blind computations on character strings. Repetition pattern attacks count among the most hazardous enemi...

There is abundance of digitised texts available in Sanskrit. However, the word segmentation task in such texts are challenging due to the issue of Sandhi. In Sandhi, words in a sentence often fuse together to form a single chunk of text, where the word delimiter vanishes and sounds at the word boundaries undergo transformations, which is also reflected in the written text. Here, we propose an a...

We present here a perceptual measure experiment of the linguistic segmentation hints carried by prosody. The selected paradigm is a dissociation test between couples of stimuli. The sentences are made of several segmentation variations in group and clause levels, and couples are made on all possible combinations of two sentences from the corpus. 20 listeners are able to associate at the same ti...

In this paper, we present a general computational structure to account for the aspectual dimension of events. The construction is centered on the interaction of entities partaking in events to reach a final state accessible only if the final transition leading to that state can conclude. This amounts to say that in sentences denoting an activity or an accomplishment, an entity (fully lexicalize...

Research on the counter-reforms to Article 27 of the Mexican constitution has been challenged to bridge microand macro-level data and illuminate a general refusal to privatize land. Here, a layered approach poses a few possible answers. Drawing on data for the state of Campeche, I relate how ejido members effectively expanded their landholdings via the counter-reforms. Drawing on data for the m...

The study of computing in presence of faulty robots in the Look-Compute-Move model has been the object of extensive investigation, typically with the goal of designing algorithms tolerant to as many faults as possible. In this paper, we initiate a new line of investigation on the presence of faults, focusing on a rather different issue. We are interested in understanding the dynamics of a group...

In this paper, we present a critical analysis of the state of the art in the definition and typologies of paraphrasing. This analysis shows that there exists no characterization of paraphrasing that is comprehensive, linguistically based and computationally tractable at the same time. The following sets out to define and delimit the concept on the basis of the propositional content. We present ...

I think it is important to keep in mind that the term "computational linguistics" is not parallel in content with many other terms in linguistics, such as "anthropological linguistics" or "psycholinguistics", or "phonology" or "pragmatics". These terms all refer to content aspects of language; these are, respectively, the role of language in various cultures, the relations between language and ...