In the information society large amounts of information are being generated and transmitted constantly, especially in the most natural way for humans, i.e., natural language. Social networks, blogs, forums, and Q&A sites are a dynamic Large Knowledge Repository. So, Web 2.0 contains structured data but still the largest amount of information is expressed in natural language. Linguistic structur...

These notes cover the first part of an introductory course on computational linguistics, also known as MPRI 2-27-1: Logical and computational structures for linguistic modelling. The course is subdivided into two parts: the first, which is the topic of these notes, covers grammars, automata, and logics for syntax modelling, while the second part focuses on logical approaches semantics. Among th...

Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Information Retrieval has always been an interesting and challenging research area. Despite the high expectations, most of the results indicate that successfully using NLP is very complex. In this paper, we show how Support Vector Machines along with kernel functions can effectively represent syntax and semantics. Our experiments on question/answer classifi...

A cornerstone of “The cognitive basis for linguistic structures” (CBLS) was to highlight Chomsky’s famous distinction between (1) knowledge of language and (2) how that knowledge is put to use, emphasizing that these need not, and indeed probably were not, one and the same thing—if only because knowledge of language makes no reference whatsoever to the computational steps involved in recovering...

This article shows that the TEI tag set for feature structures can be adopted to represent a heterogeneous set of linguistic corpora. The majority of corpora is annotated using markup languages that are based on the Annotation Graph framework, the upcoming Linguistic Annotation Format ISO standard, or according to tag sets defined by or based upon the TEI guidelines. A unified representation co...

through uncovering the underlying elements of language, this research aims to reveal the hidden layers of meaning in press texts in the framework of a critical discourse analysis. having used socio-semantic features of van leeuwen's model (1996), this paper has studied, qualitatively, 40 issues of four iranian persian publications for a period of two months, from july 22 to september 21, 2011. ...

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the research on linguistic patterns focusing on the subclassOf relation for the semi-automatic construction of ontologies. Taking as a starting point those ontological structures corresponding to consensual modelling solutions, which are known as Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs), we identified the linguistic patterns that convey the relation captured in ...

Persons who use a symbol system to communicate have not been able to take advantage of Internet-based services to the same extent as persons who write using ordinary alphabetic text. However, such persons could be among those who would have most use of Internet services due to physical or intellectual handicaps and the resulting social and practical isolation. This contribution considers some k...

While there is large agreement that there must be a systematic relation between the cognition of single individuals and the public meaning of lingusitic expressions, there is no theory that could describe this relation systematically and formally. The aim of this paper is to describe a framework that is able to fill this gap. We will use frames as an adequate format to describe both mental repr...

1 Introduction Recent models of causation place the concept of CAUSE within a broader framework of concepts that includes the notions of LETTING, HINDERING, HELPING and PREVENTING. In each model, the related concepts are defined in terms of a small set of conceptual distinctions. This paper examines the relationship between the cognitive and linguistic systems. Specifically, we investigate whet...