A system where several transducer or FST are combined in cascade is presented. Each transducer manages a simple step: learned examples, named-entities, basic misspellings, collapsed words, onomatopoeia words, more complex changes, lowercase/uppercase letters.

The realization of plans of activities by several agents is usually subject to a set of temporal constraints, including synchronization constraints between agents. To represent the set of temporal constraints imposed on distributed plans, the framework of Multi-agent Simple Temporal Network (MaSTN) can be used. In this paper, we consider the problem of maintaining the temporal consistency of di...

This book is a companion to Herbal Simples, two editions of which we have noticed in these pages : like its forerunner, it displays much research and investigation. Dr. Fernie has industriously consulted many mediaeval bestiaries and old books on medicine, and has compiled a work which possesses much interest, even if it is a little "snippety." A judicious revision of the text would have remove...

Résumé We show that the semantic level for discourses, understood as a dependency representation, can be mathematically characterized as DAGs. Our argumentation is based on discourses with three clauses and two discourse connectives. This simple case allows us to state that DAGs for discourses are not arbitrary: they present structural constraints. Nous montrons que les représentations sémantiq...