The project of electronic corpora for Manding languages was launched in St. Petersburg in 2009. By now, it is carried out by an international team with an assistance by specialists in Manding languages from different countries. Tools have been developed taking into account the specifics of Manding languages (and adaptable to other languages). The Bamana Reference Corpus was put on line in 2012,...

Interconnected systems, such as electronic health records (EHR), considerably improved the handling and processing of health information while keeping the costs at a controlled level. Since the EHR virtually stores all data in digitized form, personal medical documents are easily and swiftly available when needed. However, multiple formats and differences in the health documents managed by vari...

We describe a new system for labeling speech corpora with high-level group interaction tags, called “meeting acts.” The system was motivated by a need to assess work seeking to automatically detect meeting style using dialog act information. We present information about the relationships seen between dialog act sequences and meeting style to motivate the labeling process. We provide a summary o...

In the current paper we firstly give a short introduction on e-learning platforms and review the case of the e-class open e-learning platform being used by the Greek tertiary education sector. Our analysis includes strategic selection issues and outcomes in general and operational and adoption issues in the case of the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Larissa, Greece. The methodolog...

English. We examined two issues concerning Italian Number morphology: the phenomena related to mass and count nouns and to the plural dominance. By taking into account quantitative data from corpora and subjective frequency ratings in three mixed effect models, we found that differences in participants’ performance in two lexical decision tasks could be better captured as differences in frequen...

This system proposes an efficient text classification approach which is based on multi – layer SVM-NN text classification and two-level representation model. Automated text classification is attractive because it frees organizations from the need of manually organizing document bases, which can be too expensive. This system proposes two-level representation model to represent text data, one is ...

This study describes a new corpus of over 60,000 hand-annotated metadiscourse acts from 106 OpenCourseWare lectures, from two different disciplines: Physics and Economics. Metadiscourse is a set of linguistic expressions that signal different functions in the discourse. This type of language is hypothesised to be helpful in finding a structure in unstructured text, such as lectures discourse. A...

This article provides a brief overview of Daba software package created in the course of building corpora for Manding languages. Key software features are motivated by the tasks and problems characteristic of many African languages. The corpus-building model proposed here was initially developed for Bambara Reference Corpus which is available online and is freely accessible. The morphological a...

This paper presents the TYPALOC corpus of French Dysarthric and Healthy speech and the rationale underlying its constitution. The objective is to compare phonetic variation in the speech of dysarthric vs. healthy speakers in different speech conditions (read and unprepared speech). More precisely, we aim to compare the extent, types and location of phonetic variation within these different popu...

In this paper we compute classical Minkowsky spacetime solutions of pure SU(2) and SU(3) gauge theories, in Landau gauge. The solutions are regular everywhere except at the origin and/or infinity, are characterized by a four momentum k such that k = 0 and resemble QED configurations. The classical solutions suggest a particle-independent description of hadrons, similarly to the Atomic and Nucle...