ParaMor automatically learns morphological paradigms from unlabelled text, and uses them to annotate word forms with morpheme boundaries. ParaMor competed in the English and German tracks of Morpho Challenge 2007 (Kurimo et al., 2008). In English, ParaMor’s balanced precision and recall outperform at F1 an already sophisticated baseline induction algorithm, Morfessor (Creutz, 2006). In German, ...

In this paper we present a statistical machine learning approach to formal neologism detection going some way beyond the use of exclusion lists. We explore the impact of three groups of features: form related, morpho-lexical and thematic features. The latter type of features has not yet been used in this kind of application and represents a way to access the semantic context of new words. The r...

In this paper, we describe the techniques that are explored in the AppTek system to enhance the translations in the Turkish to English track of IWSLT09. The submission was generated using a phrase-based statistical machine translation system. We also researched the usage of morpho-syntactic information and the application of word reordering in order to improve the translation results. The resul...

This talk is about the standards for morpho-syntactic and syntactic corpus annotation: MAF (Morpho-syntactic Annotation Framework, ISO/FDIS 24611) and SynAF (Syntactic Annotation Framework, ISO 24615:2010). Both standards complement each other and are closely related. In contrast to MAF, which describes features such as part of speech, morphological and grammatical features, SynAf describes rel...

The use of planktonic foraminifera in paleoceanography requires taxonomic consistency and precise assessment of the species biogeography. Yet, ribosomal small subunit (SSUr) DNA analyses have revealed that most of the modern morpho-species of planktonic foraminifera are composed of a complex of several distinct genetic types that may correspond to cryptic or pseudo-cryptic species. These geneti...

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have shown much promise in neurobiology and biomedicine. Their structural stability and ease of chemical modification make them compatible for biological applications. In this review, we discuss the effects that chemically functionalized CNTs, applied as colloidal solutes or used as strata, have on the morpho-functional properties of astrocytes, the most abundant cells p...

In this paper we investigate the impact of translation on readability. We propose a quantitative analysis of several shallow, lexical and morpho-syntactic features that have been traditionally used for assessing readability and have proven relevant for this task. We conduct our experiments on a parallel corpus of transcribed parliamentary sessions and we investigate readability metrics for the ...

Abstract A significant proportion of Southern Ocean seafloor biodiversity is thought to be associated with fragile, slow growing, long-lived, and habitat-forming taxa. Minimizing adverse impact these so-called vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) a conservation priority that often managed by relying on fisheries bycatch data, combined threshold-based rules in which all “indicator” taxa are consi...

A way to improve outputs produced by automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems isto integrate additional linguistic knowledge. Our research in this eld focuses on two aspects:morpho-syntactic information and thematic adaptation.In the rst part, we propose a new mode of integration of parts of speech in a post-processingstage of speech decoding. To do this, we tag N-best sentenc...

We present a calculus for representing and reasoning about the location of rigid objects which may move within some region (we will speak ofmobile parts). The calculus has both a mereological primitive and a morphological one, hence the title of the paper. We present an axiomatisation for congruence, our chosen morphological primitive, define the notion of mobile part, describe a subset of morp...