Past TREC experiments by the University of Massachusetts have focused primarily on ad-hoc query creation. Substantial eeort was directed towards automatically translating TREC topics into queries, using a set of simple heuristics and query expansion. Less emphasis was placed on the routing task, although results were generally good. The Spanish experiments in TREC-3 concentrated on simple index...

The comprehension of sentences expressing instigative causation (e.g., The horse makes the camel run) was investigated in children between the ages of 2;0 and 4;4, speaking English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish. Crosslinguistic differences in development reveal the roles of morphological (causative particle, case inflection) and syntactic devices (periphrasis, word order) in guiding chil...

In this paper a computational model of the Spanish clitic system is presented. In this model clitics receive a dual analysis in which enclitics are considered inflexions while proclitics are considered independent lexical units, hence proper clitics. The model covers the analysis of simple periphrases that, in addition to auxiliary and modals, have a single content verb (e.g. puede comérselo, s...