We describe ongoing efforts towards and challenges in using an Example-Based Machine Translation (EBMT) system in the context of a multi-national, multi-university and multi-agency transnational digital government project. The project is aimed at applying information technology to the problem of collecting and sharing information securely in a multilingual context. We report on a number of issu...

PersPred is a manually elaborated multilingual syntactic and semantic Lexicon for Persian Complex Predicates (CPs), referred to also as “Light Verb Constructions” (LVCs) or “Compound Verbs”. CPs constitutes the regular and the most common way of expressing verbal concepts in Persian, which has only around 200 simplex verbs. CPs can be defined as multi-word sequences formed by a verb and a non-v...

The paper describes an attempt of constructing an example-based machine translation application for the English-Romanian language pair by making the best possible use of the resources and the pre-processing tools available in our working group. Therefore, the application is not necessarily innovative in the general field of EBMT, but an experiment of what can be done with specific resources and...

Multiword Expressions (MWEs) are important linguistic units that require special treatment in many NLP applications. It is thus desirable to be able to recognize them automatically. Semantically annotated corpora should mark MWEs in a clear way that facilitates development of automatic recognition tools. In the present paper we discuss various corpus design decisions from this perspective. We p...

As part of the MediaEval 2013 benchmark evaluation campaign, the objective of the Spoken Web Search (SWS) task was to perform Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection (QbE-STD), using spoken queries to retrieve matching segments in a set of audio files. As in previous editions, the SWS 2013 evaluation focused on the development of technology specifically designed to perform speech search in a low...

Many interesting pieces of music violate established structures or rules of their genre on purpose. These songs can be very atypical in their interior structure and their different parts might actually allude to entirely different other songs or genres. We present a query-by-example-based user interface that shows songs related to the one currently playing. This relation is not based on overall...

We report the results of an experiment designed to shed light on beliefs off equilibrium paths. The experiment implements an incomplete information club game. A unique outcome results in all perfect Bayesian equilibria, but beliefs and actions off the equilibrium path are unconstrained under all concepts except extensive form rationalizability (EFR) and logit equilibrium. 90% of subject’s decis...

This study investigates the supervised token-based identification of Multiword Expressions (MWEs). This is an ongoing research to exploit the information contained in the contexts in which different instances of an expression could occur. This information is used to investigate the question of whether an expression is literal or MWE. Lexical and syntactic context features derived from vector re...

This paper presents our approach towards the SemEval-2016 Task 10 – Detecting Minimal Semantic Units and their Meanings. Systems are expected to provide a representation of lexical semantics by (1) segmenting tokens into words and multiword units and (2) providing a supersense tag for segments that function as nouns or verbs. Our pipeline rule-based system uses no external resources and was imp...