Perception of external objects involves sensory acquisition via the relevant sensory organs. A widely-accepted assumption is that the sensory organ is the first station in a serial chain of processing circuits leading to an internal circuit in which a percept emerges. This open-loop scheme, in which the interaction between the sensory organ and the environment is not affected by its concurrent ...

This paper examines the extent to which verb diathesis alternations are empirically attested in corpus data. We automatically acquire alternating verbs from large balanced corpora by using partialparsing methods and taxonomic information, and discuss how corpus data can be used to quantify linguistic generalizations. We estimate the productivity of an alternation and the typicality of its membe...

Idiomatic expressions are plentiful in everyday language, yet they remain mysterious, as it is not clear exactly how people learn and understand them. They are of special interest to linguists, psycholinguists, and lexicographers, mainly because of their syntactic and semantic idiosyncrasies as well as their unclear lexical status. Despite a great deal of research on the properties of idioms in...

The Polish text corpus was analysed to find information about phoneme statistics. We were especially interested in triphones as they are commonly used in many speech processing applications like HTK speech recogniser. An attempt to create the full list of triphones for Polish language is presented. A vast amount of phonetically transcribed text was analysed to obtain the frequency of triphone o...

This is an erratum for the paper titled “Token and Type Constraints for Cross-Lingual Part-ofSpeech Tagging” by Täckström et al. (2013). It revises the results with the coupled constraints presented in the last three columns of Table 2 in the aforementioned paper.