Recently there has been a growing interest in infrastructures for sharing NLP tools and resources. This paper presents SiSSA, a project that aims at developing an infrastructure for prototyping, editing and validation of NLP application architectures. The system will provide the user with a graphical environment for (1) selecting the NLP activities relevant for the particular NLP task and the a...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to validate the Portuguese translations of four cystic fibrosis quality of life questionnaires (CFQ). The first three were developed for patients with cystic fibrosis aged from 6 to 11 years, from 12 to 13 years and 14 years or more, while the fourth was developed for the parents of patients aged 6 to 13 years. MATERIAL AND METHODS The four CFQ translat...

This paper deals with an approach of prosody evaluation and modelisation, tested together a prosodic model and a prosodic generator, to produce a compared diagnostic of their linguistic competencies. Three evaluation experiments are succinctly described. The first one consists in an online measurement by listeners of the prosodic quality; the second one uses tuned stimuli to test the difference...

We present a validation methodology for a cross-linguistic grammar resource which produces output in the form of small grammars based on elicited typological descriptions. Evaluating the resource entails sampling from a very large space of language types, the type and range of which preclude the use of standard test suites development techniques. We produce a database from which gold standard t...

Linguistic Miner is a project carried out at ILC whose objective is the development of an integrated system to build, organise and manage a corpus of Italian texts (of various origins and formats), and to design and constantly add new tools for the automatic extraction of tiered linguistic knowledge to be made available for many teaching, publishing, and other cultural purposes. The project is ...