In this paper I sketch some of the practical connections between two kinds of displacement: experiential ^material displacement and discursive or metaphorical displacement. I examine these connections in the context of legal struggles over the eviction of families from public housing. The evictions were authorized on the basis of interpretations of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 (the `One Stri...

"Overtreatment" is a neologism coined some 15 years ago to denote medical and surgical interventions that are unnecessary. It is a topical term for an old concept. However, it has rapidly become a shibboleth for those inclined toward finger-pointing and blaming in matters of health policy. As such, it is a "foe" that heats up rather than modulates debate. But if one examines the notion in the c...

This paper presents a roadmap to deliver tools able to model and predict the behaviour of neologisms in the form of nominal compounds. Quite often these compounds yield meanings (in our case, word associations) that are not related to the components of the compounds taken individually. Classical probabilities cannot handle this effect, thus a framework based on quantum probability to model the ...

Analogy-based Text Normalization : the case of unknowns words. In this paper, we describe and evaluate a system for improving the quality of noisy texts containing non-word errors. It is meant to be integrated into a full information extraction architecture, and aims at improving its results. For each word unknown to a reference lexicon which is neither a named entity nor a neologism, our syste...

This paper seeks to provide an under-pinning theoretical framework for, not only understanding how humanchines (the duality of human and machine artefacts, or the humanchine actor) and their networks come into being, persist and change, but for envisioning and developing them. This will be accomplished by exploring the idea of integrating structuration theory (ST) and actor network theory (ANT)...

Aphasia is an acquired language disorder resulting from brain damage that can cause significant communication difficulties. Aphasic speech is often characterized by errors known as paraphasias, the analysis of which can be used to determine an appropriate course of treatment and to track an individual’s recovery progress. Being able to detect paraphasias automatically has many potential clinica...

Various efforts have been made for the development of tools and methods dedicated to the automatic processing of multilingual terminology databases. For that purpose, multilingual parallel corpora have been used as a basis resource. However, most of the neologisms in technical and scientific domains are realised by multiword terms that are rarely identified in parallel corpora. In this paper, w...

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The applications described here follow up the works performed in the recent last years by the Data Structures and Computational Linguistics Group at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University. These works have been developed about computational Linguistics and, as one of their results, some tools for morphologic identification and generation have been released. This work presents the use of those to...