The goal of the DARPA MADCAT (Multilingual Automatic Document Classification Analysis and Translation) Program is to automatically convert foreign language text images into English transcripts, for use by humans and downstream applications. The first phase the program focuses on translation of handwritten Arabic documents. Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is creating publicly available linguist...

We present on-going work on the harmonization of existing German lexical resources in the field of opinion and sentiment mining. The input of our harmonization effort consisted in four distinct lexicons of German word forms, encoded either as lemmas or as full forms, marked up with polarity features, at distinct granularity levels. We describe how the lexical resources have been mapped onto eac...

The interaction of natural language processing and the Semantic Web have lead to the creation of a new paradigm known as Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD), whereby traditional language resources are made available as linked data. Conversely, the publication of corpora, machine-readable dictionaries as linked data has opened new resources to Semantic Web researchers and allowed new tools to be ...

The Arabic Treebank (ATB) Project at the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) has embarked on a large corpus of Broadcast News (BN) transcriptions, and this has led to a number of new challenges for the data processing and annotation procedures that were originally developed for Arabic newswire text (ATB1, ATB2 and ATB3). The corpus requirements currently posed by the DARPA GALE Program, including ...

We present a Chinese Named Entity Recognition (NER) system submitted to the close track of Sighan Bakeoff2006. We define some additional features via doing statistics in training corpus. Our system incorporates basic features and additional features based on Conditional Random Fields (CRFs). In order to correct inconsistently results, we perform the postprocessing procedure according to n-best ...

The present paper focuses on the questions of modern advertising science, structure of advertising and elements making actual manipulative influence from the addresser. Advertising encourages product sales, is an instrument of forming ethical standards, values, creating cultural values, standards and mode of behavior that is why the wide system of means for achieving aims of advertisers is need...

Authentic poetic text as an object of foreign linguistic didactics is investigated in the article. Formation linguo-socio-cultural competence a constituent part communicative philology student from point view culture study analyzed. Attention focused on fact that “informative condensation” and “hyper-semanticism” well conceptuality, emotionality, imagery, rhythm euphony cause inexhaustible esth...

This article reviews recent studies in which human judgements of essay quality are assessed using Coh-Metrix, an automated text analysis tool. The goal of these studies is to better understand the relationship between linguistic features of essays and human judgements of writing quality. Coh-Metrix reports on a wide range of linguistic features, affording analyses of writing at various levels o...