In dialog, most words fit nicely with their prosodic context. This enables the prediction of which words are likely to come next, given the recent prosodic context, an ability which is of practical utility. However anomalies exist, cases where the word that comes next seems to be a mismatch for its prosodic context. Examination of 60 such lexico-prosodic anomalies in the Switchboard telephone d...

This paper discusses a number of implications of using either a conceptual approach or a lexico-semantic approach to terminology structuring, especially for interpreting data supplied by corpora for the purpose of building specialized dictionaries. A simple example, i.e., program, will serve as a basis for showing how relationships between terms are captured in both approaches. My aim is to dem...

We describe a method to automatically extract hyponyms from Japanese newspapers. First, we discover patterns which can extract hyponyms of a noun, such as "A nado-no B (B such as A)", then we apply the patterns to the newspaper corpus to extract instances. The procedure works best to extract hyponyms of concrete things in the middle of the word hierarchies. The precision is 49-87 percent depend...

Charisma, the ability to attract and retain followers without benefit of formal authority, is more difficult to define than to identify. While we each seem able to identify charismatic individuals – and non-charismatic individuals – it is not clear what it is about an individual that influences our judgment. This paper describes the results of experiments designed to discover potential correlat...

Most previous studies in computerized deception detection have relied only on shallow lexico-syntactic patterns. This paper investigates syntactic stylometry for deception detection, adding a somewhat unconventional angle to prior literature. Over four different datasets spanning from the product review to the essay domain, we demonstrate that features driven from Context Free Grammar (CFG) par...

In this paper we study a graph-based approach to the task of Recognizing Textual Entailment between a Text and a Hypothesis. The approach takes into account the full lexico-syntactic context of both the Text and Hypothesis and is based on the concept of subsumption. It starts with mapping the Text and Hypothesis on to graph structures that have nodes representing concepts and edges representing...

The article is devoted to the lexical and semantic analysis of Chuvash hydronyms. purpose study classify names water bodies by groups, identify main principles nomination hydro-names. deals with rivers streams, lakes ponds, swamps swampy places, springs wells. material for was collected author during field research, data from toponymic file Scientific Archive CSUH various cartographic sources, ...

We present an overview of our recent work on the signalling of sentence type in Dutch both through lexico-syntactic structure and through intonation. Production data were studied in a controlled experiment with play-acted sentence types (statements, yes/no-questions, wh-questions and declarative questions (lexico-syntactically identical to statements)), and in unconstrained spontaneous dialog (...