This study examines the extent to which word recognition is influenced by the information of grammatical gender given by the French singular definite article (le/la). More specifically, the focus is on auditory word recognition when words are in the final noun phrase in a Subject Verb Object (SVO) sentence. We compared the gender effect with that of the semantic information of the verb in order...

The Context-Free backbone of some natural language analyzers produces all possible CF parses as some kind of shared forest, from which a single tree is to be chosen by a disambiguation process that may be based on the ner features of the language. We study the structure of these forests with respect to optimality of sharing, and in relation with the parsing schema used to produce them. In addit...

Alexandre le Grand, les empereurs Titus et Othon II, Alaric, Olivier Cromwell, les papes Grégoire V, Léon X, Sixte V, Urbain VII, Alexandre VI, Borgia, Dante Alighieri, Byron, Le Caravage, Fausto Coppi... À la liste des victimes célèbres, réelles, présumées ou imaginaires du paludisme, les médias viennent d’ajouter Toutankhamon sans se poser de questions. Après la presse écrite et télédiffusée,...