This paper addresses the issue of how language technology resources and components can be applied in ontology-based querying. In particular, it presents the approach to text and query analysis adopted in the Danish research project OntoQuery, where shallow syntactic analysis and ontology-based parsing are combined in order to identify nominal phrases (NPs) and assign them a semantic description...

In this paper, we study the impact of using a domain-specific bilingual lexicon on the performance of an Example-Based Machine Translation system. We conducted experiments for the EnglishFrench language pair on in-domain texts from Europarl (European Parliament Proceedings) and out-of-domain texts from Emea (European Medicines Agency Documents), and we compared the results of the Example-Based ...

This paper reports on a genre-based contrastive analysis of the textual organization of biomedical texts. In order to provide the maximum educational value to our research, our corpus is made up of 100 biomedical texts divided as follows: 25 Letters to the Editor, 25 Cartas al director, 25 Editorials and 25 Editoriales. Following Paltridge's approach, based on simple keys to symbolize the main ...

political and social isolation of women in pre-islamic period and their blurred role in social and political life was changed with the advent of islam. however, in the era of the caliphs, under the influence of jewish and christian cultural elements and the revival of certain pre-islamic arabian traditions, the page was turned and the situation is well reflected in historical texts and traditio...

in this paper we have proposed an approach for emotion detection in implicit texts. we have introduced a combinational system based on three subsystems. each one analyzes input data from a different aspect and produces an emotion label as output. the first subsystem is a machine learning method. the second one is a statistical approach based on vector space model (vsm) and the last one is a key...

This paper introduces the “Gendercheck Editor”, a tool to check German texts for gender discriminatory formulations. It relays on shallow rule-based techniques as used in the Controlled Language Authoring Technology (CLAT). The paper outlines major sources of gender imbalances in German texts. It gives a background on the underlying CLAT technology and describes the marking and annotation strat...