Redundant marking of grammatical relations seems to be commonplace across languages, and has been shown benefit learning as well robust information transmission. At the same time, languages also exhibit trade-offs between strategies such case or word order, suggesting that redundancy may dis-preferred in line with a tendency towards communicative efficiency. In present paper, we assess redundan...

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CONTENTS General remarks on information languages Use of the term "Information Language" (IL) Purposes of an information language—requirements for an information language A general model for the structure of the ensemble of subjects Specializations of the general model Indicative and informative descriptions Analytic vs. synthetic relations Paradigmatic vs. syntagmatic relations Synthetic relat...

Predicting the effects of labial coarticulation is an important aspect with a view to developing an artificial talking head. This paper describes a concatenation approach that uses sigmoids to represent the evolution of labial parameters. Labial parameters considered are lip aperture, protrusion, stretching and jaw aperture. A first formal algorithm determines the relevant transitions, i.e. tho...

In previous research evidence for the effects of stress and accent on phonetic variation is based on laboratory speech. In the present paper, we report on a study of the effects of accent on the acoustic cues for stop voicing and place of articulation in the speech of four announcers from the Boston University Radio News corpus. The results show that there are significant effects of accent on V...

Human categorization is neither a binary nor a context-free process. Rather, some concepts are better examples of a category than others, while the criteria for category membership may be satisfied to different degrees by different concepts in different contexts. In light of these empirical facts, WordNet’s static category structure appears both excessively rigid and unduly fragile for processi...

We deene an order independent version of default uniication on typed feature structures. The operation is one where default information in a feature structure typed with a more speciic type, will override default information in a feature structure typed with a more general type, where speciicity is deened by the subtyping relation in the type hierarchy. The operation is also able to handle feat...

We describe here a methodology to combine two different techniques for Semantic Relation Extraction from texts. On the one hand, generic lexicosyntactic patterns are applied to the linguistically analyzed corpus to detect a first set of pairs of co-occurring words, possibly involved in “syntagmatic” relations. On the other hand, a statistical unsupervised association system is used to obtain a ...

Collocations constitute an important type of syntagmatic information whose introduction into WordNets has not yet been addressed. The goal of our work is the integration of the collocational material for the field of emotion nouns encoded in the DIccionario de colocaciones del español (DICE) in terms of Lexical Functions into the Spanish part of the EuroWordNet (SpEWN). Two features of collocat...

Human categorization is neither a binary nor a context-free process. Rather, the criteria that govern the use and recognition of certain concepts may be satisfied to different degrees in different contexts. In light of this reality, the idealized, static structure of a lexical ontology like WordNet appears both excessively rigid and unduly fragile when faced with real texts that draw upon diffe...