Abstract This article deals with four unpublished Judeo-Spanish proverb collections from post-Holocaust Bosnia that were gathered there by different members of the Sephardic community: three men (Binjo Samokovlija, David Baruh, and Jakov Konforti) one woman (Flora Eškenazi). I specifically examine two working techniques these authors/collectors applied in order to safeguard disseminate this imp...

This paper describes the implementation of Screffva, a computer system written in Prolog that employs a parallel corpus for the automatic generation of bilingual dictionary entries. Screffva provides a lemmatised interface between a parallel corpus and its bilingual dictionary. The system has been trialled with a parallel corpus of Cornish-English bitext. Screffva is able to retrieve any given ...

We present the results of an agreement task carried out in the framework of the KNOW Project and consisting in manually annotating an agreement sample totaling 50 sentences extracted from the SenSem corpus. Diambiguation was carried out for all nouns, proper nouns and adjectives in the sample, all of which were assigned EuroWordNet (EWN) synsets. As a result of the task, Spanish WN has been sho...

A document taxonomy alignment method, relying on document glosses and utilizing a soft ontology expansion, enables us to devise some allnew hierarchical leaf nodes for the purpose of better aligning a plurality of document taxonomies.

This paper studies the enrichment of Spanish WordNet with synset glosses automatically obtained from the English WordNet glosses using a phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation system. We construct the English-Spanish translation system from a parallel corpus of proceedings of the European Parliament, and study how to adapt statistical models to the domain of dictionary definitions. We bui...

This paper presents a new method for Word Sense Disambiguation based on the WordNet Domains lexical resource [4]. The underlaying working hypothesis is that domain labels, such as ARCHITECTURE, SPORT and MEDICINE provide a natural way to establish semantic relations between word senses, that can be used during the disambiguation process. This resource has already been used on Word Sense Disambi...

The essential characteristic of a signed language corpus is that it has been annotated, and not, contrary to the practice of many signed language researchers, that it has been transcribed. Annotations are necessary for corpus-based investigations of signed or spoken languages. Multi-media annotation software can now be used to transform a recording into a machine-readable text without it first ...

OntoLearn is a system for automatic acquisition of specialized ontologies from domain corpora, based on a syntactic pattern matching technique for word sense disambiguation, called structural semantic interconnection (SSI). We use SSI to extract from corpora complex domain concepts and create a specialized version of WordNet. In order to facilitate the task of domain specialists who inspects an...