A Multilingual Predicate Matrix

Acquiring Predicate-Argument Mapping Information From Multilingual Texts

This paper discusses automatic acquisition of predicate-argument mapping information from multilingual texts. The lexicon of our NLP system abstracts the language-dependent portion of predicate-argument mapping information from the core meaning of verb senses (i.e. semantic concepts as defined in the knowledge base). We represent this mapping information in terms of cross-linguistically general...

Interlinguistic Divergences in Papillon Multilingual Dictionary

The Papillon project aims at building a multilingual pivot dictionary by voluntary contributors in collaboration on the Internet. The project started as a French-Japanese cooperation. The languages on development are English, French, German, Japanese, Lao, Malay, Thai and Vietnamese. We will discuss about how to solve the problems raised by the divergence of the predicates' argument structures ...

Driving Multilingual Sentence Generation with Lexico-grammatical Resources

JOHN HIT using AGENT the thematic roles and HIT THEME. and MARY The input consists of the predicate and two arguments joined with the predicate

A multilingual phonetic representation and analysis system for different speech databases

A multilingual phonetic representation and analysis system for different speech databases is presented. The need for such a system is first justified and then one is proposed based on the Worldbet phonetic alphabet. A phonetic class hierarchy is developed and a description of the hierarchical structural representation follows. Database access is based on the latter and is accomplished by defini...

The Multilingual City: Vitality, Conflict, and Change, Edited by Lid King & Lorna Carson (2006), Multilingual Matters, ISBN-13 978-1-78309-477-6