The paper describes the system for coreference resolution in German and Russian, trained exclusively on coreference relations projected through a parallel corpus from English. The resolver operates on the level of deep syntax and makes use of multiple specialized models. It achieves 32 and 22 points in terms of CoNLL score for Russian and German, respectively. Analysis of the evaluation results...

The need to communicate and reason about space is pervasive in human cognition. Consequently, most languages develop specialized terms for describing relationships between objects in space – spatial prepositions. However, the specific set of prepositions and the delineations between them vary widely. For example, in English containment relationships are categorized as in and support relationshi...

This paper illustrates the results of teaching English to students with hearing loss using a computer program developed for learners defined as either hard of hearing or deaf. The research takes place at one of the three specialized schools in Bulgaria – “Prof. Dr. Decho Denev” Special Secondary School with Kindergarten for Children with Hearing Loss, located in Sofia City. The software was uti...

In this paper we describe a framework for classifying and annotating Egyptian Arabic Multiword Expressions (EMWE) in a specialized computational lexical resource. The framework intends to encompass comprehensive linguistic information for each MWE including: a. phonological and orthographic information; b. POS tags; c. structural information for the phrase structure of the expression; d. lexico...

ISARA-Lyon is a specialized university offering courses on Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences. Our summer school is open to international undergraduates with a Science or Humanities major from beginning of June to mid-July. It is a comprehensive program of French language and culture lessons and scientific courses on Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture in English, excursions, visi...

We propose a method of organizing reading materials for vocabulary learning. It enables us to select a concise set of reading texts (from a target corpus) that contains all the target vocabulary to be learned. We used a specialized vocabulary for an English certification test as the target vocabulary and used English Wikipedia, a free-content encyclopedia, as the target corpus. The organized re...

We present fast, accurate, direct nonprojective dependency parsers with thirdorder features. Our approach uses AD3, an accelerated dual decomposition algorithm which we extend to handle specialized head automata and sequential head bigram models. Experiments in fourteen languages yield parsing speeds competitive to projective parsers, with state-ofthe-art accuracies for the largest datasets (En...

Root climbers such as English ivy (Hedera helix) rely on specialized adventitious roots for attachment, enabling the plants to climb on a wide range of natural and artificial substrates. Despite their importance for the climbing habit, the biomechanical properties of these specialized adventitious roots compared with standard roots and their performance in the attachment to different host speci...