The structures for the expression of fault-tolerance provisions into the application software are the central topic of this paper. Structuring techniques answer the questions \How to incorporate fault-tolerance in the application layer of a computer program" and \How to manage the faulttolerance code". As such, they provide means to control complexity, the latter being a relevant factor for the...

This paper discusses some of the design criteria for a linguistic ontology that can be used to support multilingual and crosslinguistic searches and queries on the Internet. It focuses on integrating linguistic concepts and instances into an upper-level ontology, and shows that the result can be understood and analyzed as a feature (structure) system. It considers various types of linguistic st...

Fuzzy set based methods have been proved to be effective in handling many types of uncertainties in different fields, including reliability engineering. This paper presents a new approach on fuzzy reliability, based on the use of beta type distribution as membership function. Considering experts' ideas and by asking operators linguistic variables, a rule base is designed to determine the level ...

Emdros is a text database engine for linguistic analysis or annotation of text. It is appliccable especially in corpus linguistics for storing and retrieving linguistic analyses of text, at any linguistic level. Emdros implements the EMdF text database model and the MQL query language. In this paper, I present both, and give an example of how Emdros can be useful in computational linguistics.

This paper describes changing needs among the communities that exploit language resources and recent LDC activities and publications that support those needs by providing greater volumes of data and associated resources in a growing inventory of languages with ever more sophisticated annotation. Specifically, it covers the evolving role of data centers with specific emphasis on the LDC, the pub...

ARBITER is a Prolog program that extracts assertions about macromolecular binding relationships from biomedical text. We describe the domain knowledge and the underspecified linguistic analyses that support the identification of these predications. After discussing a formal evaluation of ARBITER, we report on its application to 491,000 MEDLINE ~ abstracts, during which almost 25,000 binding rel...

Most of the post-processing methods for character recognition rely on contextual information of character and word-fragment levels. However, due to linguistic characteristics of Korean, such low-level information alone is not sufficient for high-quality character-recognition applications, and we need much higher-level contextual information to improve the recognition results. This paper present...

This paper investigates the question of the interpretability of fuzzy linguistic summaries, both at the sentence level and at the summary level, seen as a set of sentences. The individual sentence interpretability is examined as depending both on its representativity measured by a quality degree and on its linguistic expression. Different properties at the summary level are also discussed, name...

The syntax of English is largely a solved problem. Yet all natural language projects devote a large amount of their effort to developing grammars. The reason for this situation is that there is no very large, generally available grammar of English based on current technology-unification grammar. The solution is to develop a very broad-coverage National Resource Grammar in a unification formalis...

Since its inception in 2010, the Linguistic Data Consortium’s data scholarship program has awarded no cost grants in data to 64 recipients from 24 countries. A survey of the twelve cycles to date – two awards each in the Fall and Spring semesters from Fall 2010 through Spring 2016 – yields an interesting view into graduate program research trends in human language technology and related fields ...