This paper describes Musicream, a novel music-listening interface that lets a user unexpectedly come across various musical pieces similar to those liked by the user. Most existing “query-by-example” interfaces are based on similaritybased searching, so they return the same results for the same query, meaning that a user of those systems always receives the same list of musical pieces sorted by...

In this article, a heuristic version of Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) named , like MDS, maps objects into an Euclidean space, such that similarities are preserved. In addition of being more efficient than MDS it allows query-by-example type of query, which makes it suitable for a content-based retrieval purposes.

Multiword expressions (MWEs) are quite frequent in languages such as English, but their diversity, the scarcity of individual MWE types, and contextual ambiguity have presented obstacles to corpus-based studies and NLP systems addressing them as a class. Here we advocate for a comprehensive annotation approach: proceeding sentence by sentence, our annotators manually group tokens into MWEs acco...

In this paper we present a method for the end-user specification of consistency rules for Web documents. Temporal description logic is used as the internal formalism. It is difficult for an author of a Web document to understand and use a formal logic. Therefore the goal is to develop an intuitive front-end allowing the authors of a document to specify their requirements and constraints at an a...

This paper is a partial report of an on-going Kakenhi project which aims to improve sub-sentential alignment and release multilingual syntactic patterns for statistical and example-based machine translation. Here we focus on improving a sub-sentential aligner which is an instance of the association approach. Phrase table is not only an essential component in the machine translation systems but ...

An implementation of a non-structural Example-Based Machine Translation system that translates sentences from Arabic to English, using a parallel corpus aligned at the paragraph level, is described. Each new input sentence is fragmented into phrases and those phrases are matched to example patterns, using various levels of morphological data. The system has been implemented and automatically ev...

The goal of this work is to introduce CHILDES-MWE, which contains English CHILDES corpora automatically annotated with Multiword Expressions (MWEs) information. The result is a resource with almost 350,000 sentences annotated with more than 70,000 distinct MWEs of various types from both longitudinal and latitudinal corpora. This resource can be used for large scale language acquisition studies...

This short paper aims at presenting a method for automatically extracting and evaluating MWE in the Europarl corpus. For this purpose we make use of mwetoolkit and utilize its output to find rules for the automatic evaluation of MWE. We then developed an XML parser to evaluate MWE candidates against those rules and also against online dictionaries. A sample of the results was manually evaluated...

We propose a method to search for illustrative sentences for English multiword expressions (MWEs) from a research paper database. We focus on syntactically flexible expressions such as “regard – as.” Traditionally, illustrative sentences that contain such expressions have been searched for by limiting the maximum number of words between the component words of the MWE. However, this method could...