This paper assesses the impact of publishing abstracts in English in the Portuguese Linguistics Association (APL) Proceedings from 2001 to 2010. The study was carried out with a corpus of 137 abstracts, follows a Text Linguistics model inspired by the Interactionnisme Sociodiscoursif and links text features to the social practices and genre repertoires of this community. Quantitative data show ...

Since many speech and text processing techniques are portable with a limited amount of work from one language to another, the most daunting task for NLP and SP practitioners becomes to build the resources needing for those tools to operate, In particular, the constitution of “high-level” resources, such as advanced corpus annotations or linguistically motivated lexicons, can be extremely work-i...

[1] Prepared the CD-ROM versions of the Resource Management (PSI ) and Extended Resource Management (RM2) Corpora (a total of six discs) for use within the DARPA speech research community and for public distribution through the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). These discs include the scoring software and statistical significance tools for benchmark performance assessment tests.

In this paper, we create meta-classifiers to forecast success in the National Hockey League. We combine three classifiers that use various types of information. The first one uses as features numerical data and statistics collected during previous games. The last two classifiers use pre-game textual reports: one classifier uses words as features (unigrams, bigrams and trigrams) in order to dete...

Agreement was investigated among five labelers for the use of two prosodic annotation systems: the ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) system [1,2] and the RaP (Rhythm and Pitch) system [3]. Each system permits the labeling of pitch accents and two levels of phrasal boundaries; RaP also permits labeling of speech rhythm and distinguishes multiple levels of prominence on syllables. After training wit...

This paper presents and explores the idea of deriving numerical indicators from texts, that is, converting text data to numerical data that has predictive or diagnostic value. One application of such a general capability is to the provisional identification of networks, or rather, of associations within networks. Conversely, given a network structure among entities that are associated with vari...

Hermeneutics, or the science of interpretation, is well accepted in the humanities. In the field of education, hermeneutics has played a relatively important role in understanding text. It is the task of this essay to introduce the theory and findings of Paul ricoeur’s hermeneutics. Specifically, the essay interprets the usefulness of ricoeur’s philosophy in understanding text (course text). Wi...