This manuscript and associated talk gives an historical but not exhaustive overview of work in the Cognitive Vision Lab at the University of Surrey’s Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing. Work concentrates on people, tracking or identifying their actions and interpreting the meaning of those actions. To do this we employ techniques from a variety of sources which include the use of Mu...

This paper considers the role of translation software, especially Machine Translation (MT), in curricula for students of computational linguistics, for trainee translators and for language learners. These three sets of students have differing needs and interests, although there is some overlap between them. A brief historical view of MT in the classroom is given, including comments on the autho...

This paper discusses the challenges addressed in digital scholarly encoding of fragmentary texts languages Ancient Italy according to TEI/EpiDoc Guidelines XML format. It describes solutions and customisations that have been adopted for dealing with peculiarities our epigraphical documentation formalisation information deemed interesting data retrieval a historical linguistic perspective. The m...

Researchers interested in the history of the Indo-European family of languages have used a variety of methods to estimate the phylogeny of the family, and have obtained widely differing results. In this paper we explore the reconstructions of the Indo-European phylogeny obtained by using the major phylogeny estimation procedures on an existing database of 336 characters (including lexical, phon...

In this paper, we recall the historical perspectives of the OrderedTriple Theory of Language (OTT) whose authors are Materna, Pala and Svoboda. The Ordered-Triple Theory, as the title suggests captures three fundamental components of a language system, i.e. syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and is fully comparable with similar linguistic theories. It became a starting point for further intercon...

Researchers interested in the history of the Indo-European family of languages have used a variety of methods to estimate the phylogeny of the family, and have obtained widely differing results. In this paper we explore the reconstructions of the IndoEuropean phylogeny obtained by using the major phylogeny estimation procedures on an existing database of 336 characters (including lexical, phono...

In this paper we look at a task in historical linguistics and the study of language development, namely that of identifying the time when a text was written. The novelty is that we evaluate our classifier and our selected features on literary texts having their action placed in the past and written so as to give off the impression of the respective epoch. We investigate several types of feature...

Palatalisation of /l/ in obstruent + lateral onset clusters in the absence of a following palatal sound has received a considerable amount of attention from historical linguistics. The phonetics of its development, however, remains less wellinvestigated. This paper aims at studying the acoustic cues that could have led plosive + lateral onset clusters to develop palatalisation. It is found that...

It is remarkable if any relationship at all persists between computational linguists (CL) and that part of general linguistics comprising the mainstream of MIT transformational-generative (TG) theoretical syntax. If the lines are still open, it represents something of a tribute to CL practitioners’ tolerance — a triumph of hope and goodwill over the experience of abuse — because the TG communit...