Corpus-based treebank annotation is known to result in incomplete coverage of midand low-frequency linguistic constructions: the linguistic representation and corpus annotation quality are sometimes suboptimal. Large descriptive grammars cover also many midand low-frequency constructions. We argue for use of large descriptive grammars and their sample sentences as a basis for specifying higher-...

Cini kurian Department of computer Science, Al-Ameen college, Edathala,Aluva, Kerala [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT--------------------------------------------------------Corpus development gained much attention due to recent statistics based natural language processing. It has new applications in Language Technology, lingui...

The Teko corpus composing model offers a decentralized, dynamic way of collecting high-quality text corpora for linguistic research. The resulting corpus consists of independent text sets. The sets are composed in cooperation with linguistic research projects, so each of them responds to a specific research need. The corpora are morphologically annotated and XML-based, with in-built compatibilt...

Design issues of a spontaneous speech corpus is described. The corpus under compilation will contain 800-1000 hour spontaneously uttered Common Japanese speech and the morphologically annotated transcriptions. Also, segmental and intonation labeling will be provided for a subset of the corpus. The primary application domain of the corpus is speech recognition of spontaneous speech, but we plan ...

In this paper we introduce ukWaC, a large corpus of English constructed by crawling the .uk Internet domain. The corpus contains more than 2 billion tokens and is one of the largest freely available linguistic resources for English. The paper describes the tools and methodology used in the construction of the corpus and provides a qualitative evaluation of its contents, carried out through a vo...

We present a newly available on-line resource for Portuguese, a corpus of 310 million words, a new version of the Reference Corpus of Contemporary Portuguese, now searchable via a user-friendly web interface. Here we report on work carried out on the corpus previous to its publication on-line. We focus on the processes and tools involved for the cleaning, preparation and annotation to make the ...

The Corpus de Referência do Português Contemporâneo (CRPC) is being developed in the Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa (CLUL) since 1988 under a perspective of research data enlargement, in the sense of concepts and hypothesis verification by rejecting the sole use of intuitive data. The intention of creating this open corpus is to establish an on-line representative sample collec...

Interpreting an utterance sometimes depends on the presence and nature of non-linguistic actions. In this paper, we motivate and develop a semantic model of embodied interaction in which the contribution that non-linguistic events make to the content of the interaction is dependent on their rhetorical connections to other actions, both linguistic and non-linguistic. We support our claims with c...

This paper proposes a method of constructing a dictionary for a pair of languages from bilingual dictionaries between each of the languages and a third language. Such a method would be useful for language pairs for which wide-coverage bilingual dictionaries are not available, but it suffers from spurious translations caused by the ambiguity of intermediary third-language words. To eliminate spu...

TCOF-POS : A Freely Available POS-Tagged Corpus of Spoken French This article details the creation of TCOF-POS, the first freely available corpus of spontaneous spoken French. We present here the methodology that was followed in order to obtain the best possible quality in the final resource. This corpus already is freely available and can be used as a training/validation corpus for NLP tools, ...