A way to improve outputs produced by automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems isto integrate additional linguistic knowledge. Our research in this eld focuses on two aspects:morpho-syntactic information and thematic adaptation.In the rst part, we propose a new mode of integration of parts of speech in a post-processingstage of speech decoding. To do this, we tag N-best sentenc...

In this research, we evaluate different approaches for the automatic extraction of hypernym relations from English and Dutch technical text. The detected hypernym relations should enable us to semantically structure automatically obtained term lists from domainand userspecific data. We investigated three different hypernymy extraction approaches for Dutch and English: a lexico-syntactic pattern...

The paper reports on the lexico semantic annotation level of the Italian Treebank the rst Italian corpus with a multi level anno tation morpho syntactic syntactic and lexico semantic The strategy of annotation and the reference lexical resource are described and the results achieved too

The paper describes a combined approach to maintaining an E-Learning ontology in dynamic and changing educational environment. The developed NLP algorithm based on morpho-syntactic patterns is applied for terminology extraction from course tasks that allows to interlink extracted terms with the instances of the system’s ontology whenever some educational materials are changed. These links are u...

We present results of the collaboration of a multinational team of researchers from (computational) linguistics, medicine, and medical informatics with the goal of building a multilingual medical lexicon with high coverage and complete morpho-syntactic information. Monolingual lexical resources were collected and subsequently mapped between languages using a morpho-semantic term normalization e...

Recent research has shown that rhetorical questions (RQs) have certain prosodic characteristics in terms of voice quality, tempo, and intonation, which distinguish them from genuine, information-seeking (ISQs). This paper focuses on the interaction between cues to meaning one hand, lexical morpho-syntactic means, other, German. The production experiment reported here addresses three questions, ...

We give a report on a detailed study of automatic lexical disambiguation of 30 sample English verbs. We were drawing on a lexicon of English verb patterns based on the Corpus Pattern Analysis (CPA), which is a novel lexicographic method that seeks to cluster verb uses according to the morpho-syntactic, lexical and semantic/pragmatic similarity of their contexts rather than to associate them wit...

In this paper, I propose that the availability of a bound variable reading for pronouns is predictable from their morphological structure of the pronouns. More specifically I argue that noun-containing pronouns cannot be bound variables. My proposal is different from D&W's (2002) argument in that in their theory, every DPs cannot have a bound variable reading, while in my theory, even DPs can h...