This report focuses on various subtypes of MultiWord Expressions (MWEs) and the way they are dealt with in the MWE lexicon for Dutch. The lexicon is developed as part of the STEVIN IRME project,1 which aims at creating an electronic resource of 5,000 Dutch expressions that meets the criterion of being highly theoryand implementationindependent, and which can be used in various Dutch NLP systems...

We present a solver for the 2D high-frequency Helmholtz equation in heterogeneous acoustic media, with online parallel complexity that scales optimally as O(L ), where N is the number of volume unknowns, and L is the number of processors, as long as L grows at most like a small fractional power of N . The solver decomposes the domain into layers, and uses transmission conditions in boundary int...

Treatment of Multiword Expressions (MWEs) is one of the most complicated issues in natural language processing, especially in Machine Translation (MT). The paper presents dictionary of MWEs for a English-Latvian MT system, demonstrating a way how MWEs could be handled for inflected languages with rich morphology and rather free word order. The proposed dictionary of MWEs consists of two constit...

A wide scale of different NLP methods have been investigated for the extraction of Multiword Expressions from large corpora. While a good deal of recent research has been focusing on the development of reliable means to delineate different subclasses of MWEs with respect to the degree of their compositionality (Baldwin et al., 2003; McCarthy et al., 2003), it has been generally accepted that fo...

It is known that the restarted full orthogonalization method (FOM) outperforms the restarted generalized minimum residual method (GMRES) in several circumstances for solving shifted linear systems when the shifts are handled simultaneously. On the basis of theWeightedArnoldi process, aweighted version of the Restarted Shifted FOM is proposed, which can provide accelerating convergence rate with...

(Nuclear) Magnetic Resonance ((N)MR) is a non-invasive technique that has been used to acquire spatially resolved images of living organisms and to monitor changes in the metabolism. An application of clinical MR is MR spectroscopy (MRS) in which chemical information can be obtained from a well-defined region in for example the human brain. The parameters of the MRS signal provide direct inform...

This paper reports our ongoing project for constructing an English multiword expression (MWE) dictionary and NLP tools based on the developed dictionary. We extracted functional MWEs from the English part of Wiktionary, annotated the Penn Treebank (PTB) with MWE information, and conducted POS tagging experiments. We report how the MWE annotation is done on PTB and the results of POS and MWE tag...

J. S. Cheung, S. J. Fan, D. S. Gao, K. W. Chan, A. M. Chow, K. Man, and E. X. Wu Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging and Signal Processing, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China, People's Republic of, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China, People's Republic of, Department of Surgery, The University of ...

An Open and Generic Framework for the Acquisition of Multiword Expressions In this paper, we present and evaluate an open and flexible methodological framework for the automatic acquisition of multiword expressions (MWEs) from monolingual textual corpora. We start with a pratical motivation followed by a theoretical discussion of the behaviour and of the challenges that MWEs pose for NLP applic...

This paper presents an evaluation study of the Multiresolution Spectral Analysis (MRS) method which provides a higher temporal accuracy in the upper spectral region and a better frequency resolution in the lower spectral range. We showcase the importance of this tool by attempting an automatic transition zone detection and an automatic silence/sonorant/non-sonorant classification. Our approach ...