Internet Communication Technology has opened new venues for CL. Because of this information revolution, research and development is now viable for many languages of Pakistan. This paper briefly presents the current work in CL in Pakistan, issues in its development and some proposals for accelerating the current pace of work in computational modeling of Pakistani Languages.

Lancaster is a small city in northwest England. The university campus is set amidst hills, woods, and green grass, and you can enjoy watching rabbits, ducks, and squirrels. It was sunny during the day and cold in the night for all participants who attended the CL2003 conference this year in Lancaster. CL2003 is the International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, held at Lancaster University bet...

In this paper we describe a parameterizable and domain-adaptive Information Extraction (IE) system (for German texts) and present some ideas on how this kind of system could effectively support Corpus Linguistics (CL) tasks. We also tentatively address the complementary question and look in which sense corpus linguistics can be beneficial to IE, specially in the case of automatic learning of te...

Argumentative Zoning (AZ) is an analysis of the argumentative and rhetorical structure of a scientific paper. It has been shown to be reliably used by independent human coders, and has proven useful for various information access tasks. Annotation experiments have however so far been restricted to one discipline, computational linguistics (CL). Here, we present a more informative AZ scheme with...

Article Editorial: Cognitive Linguistics as an interdisciplinary endeavour was published on November 1, 2022 in the journal Yearbook of German Association (volume 10, issue 1).

Introduction Recent years have witnessed an upsurge of interest in metonymy. From cognitive to computational linguistics, researchers have finally realized that metonymy is ubiquitous in everyday language and that it constitutes an important focus of research. In cognitive linguistics, this has given rise to detailed studies of metonymy as a cognitive phenomenon (Kövecses and Radden, 1998; Peir...

I have spent the last few years of my life presenting papers on the ways in which cognitive science in general and linguistics in particular can inform research in Information Systems (IS). The works originate firmly in the “Chomskian”1 tradition of linguistics, contrary to the general theme of the workshop. But do we really need to take sides in the generative vs. cognitive linguistics debate?...

In this paper I aim at sketching out in bare outline a new model/framework of language processing with its implications for natural language processing. Research in theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics and mathematical linguistics has delineated the ways natural language can be represented and modeled. Studies in cognitive (neuro)science, on the other hand, have shown how language...

Argumentative Zoning (AZ) is an analysis of the argumentative and rhetorical structure of a scientific paper. It has been shown to be reliably used by independent human coders, and has proven useful for various information access tasks. Annotation experiments have however so far been restricted to one discipline, computational linguistics (CL). Here, we present a more informative AZ scheme with...