A propos du centre ou de la direction fonctionnelle The manao project aims at studying how light, matter and shape act together in synergies, at the convergence of Optical Science and Computer Graphics, providing for more powerful representations of appearance. Such a high-level approach is to contrast with the main trend of modern Computer Graphics that study these light, shape and matter sepa...

Research on human infants has begun to shed light on early-developing processes for segmenting perceptual arrays into objects. Infants appear to perceive obiects by analyzing three-dlmensional surface arrangements and motions. Their perception does not accord with a general tendency to maximize figural goodness or to attend to nonaccldentol geometric relations in visual arrays. Object perceptla...

Research on human infants has begun to shed light on early-developing processes for segmenting perceptual arrays into objects. Infants appear to perceive obiects by analyzing three-dlmensional surface arrangements and motions. Their perception does not accord with a general tendency to maximize figural goodness or to attend to nonaccldentol geometric relations in visual arrays. Object perceptla...

In this paper, motivations are presented to argue in favor of the affixal status of Romanian pronominal clitics. It will be suggested that they should not be considered lexical items, i.e. ‘signs’, which are located in a special position by rules of syntax, but a complex of syntactic and semantic information which is provided in the lexicon for the morphophonological realization of the cliticiz...

This paper describes the use of a syntactico-semantic taxonomy to facilitate the generation of grammars for a multilingual web assistant. In particular, it describes the generation of grammars for two different domains: cultural events and medical specialists.

Natural language parsing has typically been done with small sets of discrete categories such as NP and VP, but this representation does not capture the full syntactic nor semantic richness of linguistic phrases, and attempts to improve on this by lexicalizing phrases or splitting categories only partly address the problem at the cost of huge feature spaces and sparseness. Instead, we introduce ...

A system of machine translation under the framework of transfer-based grammar for Indian languages needs a set of rules for mapping the several syntactic as well as semantic facts of a source language on to the target language representations. Among these critical syntactico-semantic facts, this paper tries to approximate linguistic conditions for mapping rules for Hindi postposition transfer t...