This study focuses on code-switching (CS) in French/Algerian Arabic bilingual communities and investigates how speech technologies, such as automatic data partitioning, language identification and automatic speech recognition (ASR) can serve to analyze and classify this type of bilingual speech. A preliminary study carried out using a corpus of Maghrebian broadcast data revealed a relatively hi...

Research on the semantics of inter-sentential anaphoric relationships in the eighties has led to a debate about the question whether some level of representation is indispensable in the analysis of the semantics of natural language. Within the logically oriented or model-theoretic tradition of natural language semantics, Hans Kamp is a prominent proponent of the thesis that it is; Jeroen Groene...

Code-switching is defined as ”the alternate use of two or more languages in the same utterance or conversation” [1]. CS is a wide-spread phenomenon in multilingual communities, where multiple languages are concurrently used in a conversation. For automatic speech recognition (ASR), particularly intra-sentential code-switching poses an interesting challenge due to the multilingual context for la...

This paper presents an experimental study on the interpretation of the complement anaphora the others in inter-sentential discourse. It aims to offer an answer to the following two empirical questions. First, how complement anaphora denote the “complement set”, a set of referents that includes those referents not denoted by the matching anaphoric antecedent. Second, what are the exact interpret...