The Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT) is a valuable resource of linguistic information annotated on several layers. These layers range from shallow to deep and they should contain all the linguistic information about the text. The natural extension is to add a semantic layer suitable as a knowledge base for tasks like question answering, information extraction etc. In this thesis I set up criter...

Christer Samuelsson Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies 600 Mountain Ave, Room 2D-339, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA [email protected] Abstract This article attempts to determine what elements of linguistic theory are used in statistical language learning, and why the extracted language models look like they do. The study indicates that some linguistic elements, such as the notion...

We investigate multiple criteria group decision-making problems in which there are priority relationships between the decision elements (criteria and experts), and decision information provided by decision makers takes the form of multigranular uncertain linguistic information. Firstly, some operational laws and possibility degree of multi-granular uncertain linguistic variables are introduced....

This paper describes the process followed in the annotation of pronominal anaphora in the Eus3LB corpus of Basque. Our aim is to use this annotation as the basis for later computational treatment of our language. We present the linguistic analysis carried out, the criteria defined for the tagging and some relevant linguistic conclusions about the features of the antecedents needed to link them ...

Inspired by the goal to more accurately classify text, we describe an effort to map tokens and their characteristic linguistic elements into a graph and use that expressive representation to classify text phrases. We outperform the bag-of-words approach by exploiting word order and the semantic and syntactic characteristics within the phases. In this study, we map tagged corpora into a placehol...

Current difficulties in achieving intersubjective agreement in linguistics require attention to principles of methodology which consider sources of error and ways to eliminate them. The methodological assumptions and practices of various branches of linguistics are considered from the standpoint of the types of data gathered: texts, elicitations, intuitions and observations. Observations of the...

in this paper some algebraic structures for linguistic fuzzy models are defined for the first time. by definition linguistic fuzzy norm, stability of these systems can be considered. two methods (normed-based & graphical-based) for stability analysis of linguist fuzzy systems will be presented. at the follow a new simple method for linguistic fuzzy numbers calculations is defined. at the end tw...

The theory of belief functions allows to build a large family of combination operators, based mostly on intersections and unions between the focal elements expressed by the experts, and multiplications and additions on the masses affected to these focal elements. This chapter explores some algebraic structures where these operators behave differently, masses being linguistic labels, or focal el...