Natural language processing requires more and more voluminous textual corpora, and lots of evaluations are led in this eld. So, from the viewpoint of improving heterogeneous corpora (unrestricted texts) morpho-syntactic tagging, an adaptive approach to the type of text using resources provided by an evaluation will be presented. To justify this approach, basic statistics are applied on French M...

Abstract In this chapter, based on Prys et al. (2022), an update to the META-NET White Paper (Evas 2014), we present Language Technology (LT) for Welsh language, providing overview of status in Wales and a summary writing system typology. We describe key tools our recommendations LT associated resource development.

We investigated how focus was prosodically realized in Taiwanese, Taiwan Mandarin and Beijing Mandarin by monolingual and bilingual speakers. Acoustic analyses showed that all speakers raised pitch and intensity of focused words, but only Beijing Mandarin speakers lowered pitch and intensity of post-focus words. Cross-group differences in duration were mixed. When listening to stimuli from thei...

We induce semantic association networks from translation relations in parallel corpora. The resulting semantic spaces are encoded in a single reference language, which ensures cross-language comparability. As our main contribution, we cluster the obtained (crosslingually comparable) lexical semantic spaces. We find that, in our sample of languages, lexical semantic spaces largely coincide with ...

In this paper I argue that cross-linguistic grammatical comparison cannot be based on grammatical categories, because these are language-specific. Instead, typology must be (and usually is) based on a special set of comparative concepts that are specifically created by typologists for the purposes of comparison. Descriptive formal categories cannot be equated across languages because the criter...

Up until now, several studies have shown that a speech interface system giving verbal suggestions with beeping sounds that decrease in pitch conveyed a low system confidence level to users intuitively, and these beeping sounds were named “artificial subtle expressions” (ASEs). However, all participants in these studies were only Japanese, so if the participants’ mother tongue has different sens...

There has been a hot debate on the typological status of Mandarin Chinese in Talmyan framework of Verb-framed languages (V-languages) and Satellite-framed Languages(S-languages). However, most previous studies focus on motion events, while other macro-events (Talmy, 2000) receive little attention. The present study aims to investigate event of realization in Mandarin Chinese with experimental m...

This paper presents a cognitive typology of reuse processes, and a cognitive typology of documenting processes. Empirical studies on design with reuse and on software documenting provide evidence for a generalized cognitive model. First, these studies emphasize the cyclical nature of design: cycles of planning, writing and revising occur. Second, natural language documentation follows the hiera...

This paper investigates the phonetic correlates of interrogative prosodic features in Paiwan, an Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan. An attempt has been made to capture the typology of the Paiwan interrogative prosody. The interrogative sentence in Paiwan consists of one or more prosodic words which are usually larger than a verb stem. Yes/no, tag and alternative questions are characteristi...

Luxembourgish is embedded in a multilingual context on the divide between Romance and Germanic cultures and remains one of Europe’s under-described languages. We describe our efforts in building an large vocabulary ASR system for such a “minority” language (target language: Luxembourgish) without any transcribed audio training data. Instead, acoustic models are derived from major languages (sou...