In the robust track of the 2008 CLEF evaluation campaign an enlarged English corpus was provided. For each term, the lemma, the part-of-speech (POS) and the Synset number extracted from WordNetTM (class number of the corresponding thesaurus) are given. Based on this corpus we tested several approaches to remove at least partially the underling lexical ambiguity. Using different IR models such a...

The coastal area is a multi-issue area that promote the production of new data to improve its characterization, including LiDAR surveys (Light Detection and Ranging) for the generation of Digital Terrain Model (DTM) with high spatial resolution. Challenges are located on the integration and the rendering of these data, because of their heterogeneity (images and vectors), but also because curren...

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Acoustic characterization of phonologically voiced obstruents in Shanghai dialect In Shanghainese, phonologically voiced obstruents in word-initial, accented position are phonetically voiceless and are distinguished from the others (i.e., voiceless and/or aspirated) mainly by a low tone regi...

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Reading and prosody in dyslexic children, pause patterns Dyslexia is widely associated with a deficit in phonological awareness. Only few works in suprasegmental phonology showed that prosody is involved in the processes of decoding and reading comprehension. We developed a corpus (DySpoLec)...

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Defining a motor perturbation paradigm for speech perception studies To display the role of motor knowledge in speech perception it may be necessary to attempt to modulate access to such knowledge during perception, in double tasks paradigms. But the motor task supposed to modulate perceptio...

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Automatic recognition of demonstrative pronouns function in Arabic Anaphora resolution is one of the most difficult tasks in NLP. Classifying pronouns before attempting a task of anaphora resolution is important because to handle the cataphoric pronoun, the system should determine the antece...

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Are female and male voices processed equally fast? This study deals with processing time of female and male speech. Several authors showed that vowel identification was more difficult on voices with a high F0 (Ryalls & Lieberman, 1982). Does this have consequences on word processing? Are fem...

Mastering system engineering means dealing with concepts, methods and tools in order to optimize interactions between multiple components/agents. Despite some focused software solutions (in the conceptual and methodological field), such mastery is not without its pitfalls. In this article, we will put particular emphasis on one of those difficulties: the lack of visual-graphical expressivity of...

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PROSOTRAN : an tool that provides a symbolic representation of the prosodic events in non-standard data Most of the existing prosodic transcription systems display some limitations: (i) they cannot account for the various prosodic phenomena (accentuation, phrasing and tonal patterns), as th...

Several instruments have been developed to monitor nursing students' subjective evaluation of clinical placement. The Clinical Learning Environment, Supervision and Nurse Teacher (CLES+T) evaluation scale measures five dimensions. The purpose of this study was to translate and test the construct validity and internal consistency of the evaluation scale within a Norwegian context. The questionna...