This paper presents the current status of the French treebank developed at Paris 7 (Abeillé et al., 2003a). The corpus comprises 1 million words from the newspaper le Monde, fully annotated and disambiguated for parts of speech, inflectional morphology, compounds and lemmas, and syntactic constituents. It is representative of contemporary normalized written French, and covers a variety of autho...

The Ox Dance (Boi-Bumbá) festival, held yearly during the last three evenings of June in the town of Parintins, Amazonas, is the most spectacular folk festival staged in Northern Brazil. In recent decades, it has assumed massive proportions, combining traditional cultural themes with spectacular visual qualities, thematic innovations, and many sociological changes. This paper analyzes the festi...

We present a connectionist model for the interpretation of discourse particles in real dialogues that is based on neuronal principles of categorization (categorical perception, prototype formation, contextual interpretation). It can be shown that discourse particles operate just like other morphological and lexical items with respect to interpretation processes. The description proposed locates...

We do not encounter “generic 4/4” […] but a pattern of timing and dynamics that is particular to the piece, performer, musical style. Therefore, give an ecologically valid account meter, we must move beyond theory tempo-metrical types metrical representation involves relationships […]. (London 2004, p. 159) Similarly, as Hasty illustrates in his analyses two nominally similar Courantes by Johan...

The surface form of sentences in Lushootseed is governed primarily by considerations of Communicative Structure, in particular Thematicity. This paper will argue that Thematicity, rather than part of speech, governs the selection of the syntactic predicate in Lushootseed, and will offer some preliminary formal treatments of the phenomenon in terms of ranked constraints governing the transition ...

We have extensive experience with distributed facilitation of synchronous virtual meetings since 1992. More recently, we have gained experience in asynchronous virtual meetings and have learned lessons from which best practices have been distilled. Best practices for synchronous and asynchronous distributed facilitation give insight into requirements for toolsets. Our experience with toolsets, ...

essence of the duty to take care, but by trying to understand what taking care means in particular settings. 3 27 When we contemplate the multiplicity of government-citizen interactions, we would not see chaos threatening to overwhelm legal order and stability unless reduced to a finite and predictable set of categories. Instead, we would see in each situation an opportunity to observe, and to ...

I Begin By Thanking David Hildebrand, Daniel Brunson, and the program committee for magnificent job they have done under very difficult circumstances imposed by pandemic. I'd also like to thank their generous invitation present this 2021 Founders Lecture.Since is a Lecture, it seems appropriate recall that one of society's founders, Ralph Sleeper, said on more than occasion he would love séance...

Through its colonial, class- and caste-based history, English in India has come to be seen as a powerful resource that opens doors for those who ‘have’ it holds back do not. For women, ostensibly offers various promises addition employment: progressiveness ‘empowerment’; the potential upward mobility through marriage. Yet, conversion of capital English-speaking Indian women proves intensely com...

SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS IN A DISTRIBUTED SPEECH UNDERSTANDING SYSTEM Frederick Hayes-Roth and David J. Mostow Computer Science Department* Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213 The deve loped Hearsay II speech understanding system being at Carnegie-Mellon University has an independent Knowledge source module for each type of speech knowledge. Modules communicate by reading, writing, and...