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anyway here are the results as in the last email tungsten example might not result in increase in NAME although better than before
question NUM however does improve when using a partial NAME here her is resolved to actress NAME and NAME through NAME her NAME resolution
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NAME the normal run NAME baseline antecedent manual replacement of sentences direct substitution automatic substitution of the pronoun for the antecedent in the original submission sentences
NAME only related NAME elements NAME all elements
The only example where the inner improved using the partial NAME was in the case of question NUM where the context was
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Dear NAME you are still loved and missed read the accompanying note
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however after pulling in actress NAME and NAME as all NUM had NAME arg the NAME selected the correct following sentence Earlier this week a fan left a red rose on her mausoleum in NAME Memorial Park
Earlier this week a fan left a red rose on actress NAME NAME mausoleum in NAME Memorial Park
The real problem is that the shallow parsed NAME structures result in very few NAME elements so the NAME system is already based mainly upon NAME and CARG matches
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NAME s actions were not personal they were public gestures by a senior colleague aimed at changing the standards by which most of us operate
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I will soon work on hyperonyms and hyponyms
Does anyone know a free lexicon or a free dictionnary that represents this kind of distinction
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As we are friends of the theatre they might be able to change them for another night if they are still available
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Dear NAME contributor
As I ve noted in earlier correspondence with you I would like each paper in the volume to contain useful crossreferences to other related papers in the book assuming that there are other relevant papers
To that end I m writing to suggest that you each make available to the other people on this list your contribution to the evolang
volume
I hope and assume that you are currently revising your paper so I feel it makes sense for you to distribute it as soon as you have a revised version that people could look at
I ll leave you each to decide on the best way to do this but would ask firstly that you undertake to distribute your paper in some way for instance by sending round an attachment
This list contains only papers that I consider to be related in some way NUM in total so I ve already taken some of the work out of the procedure
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Here I summarise briefly the contents key words of the papers on the list with apologies to anyone I ve misrepresented please let me know
NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME Cultural selection for learnability NUM hypotheses concerning the characteristic structure of language
the relation between language universals and any cognitive basis for language is opaque languages themselves adapt to survive by adapting to be learnable computational models iterated learning models
NAME NAME NAME of the language faculty and language CHAR with decorrelated encodings
a correlated simulation model genetic assimilation protolanguage as learnable without a specific language faculty can be culturally transmitted
NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME Evolution of language diversity the survival of the fitness
Although the assumption that language increases human evolutionary fitness is intuitively appealing its validity needs to be examined in the light of the indications that a coherent language can emerge in the absence of languagerelated fitness eg through a combination of genetic drift and random population diffusion computer modelling
NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME Acquisition and evolution of natural languages NUM puzzles for the price of one
simulations charting the emergence and stability of irregularities across NUM generations of artificial simplicitybased learners using a rudimentary language the stability of irregularities in lg NAME s Paradox
NAME NAME Meaning coordination and communicative success most previous simulations of lg
evolution avoid the problem of learning meanings this investigates instead the emergence of communication systems without innate or transferable meanings
NAME NAME Simulating the evolution of a grammar for case presents a multiagent model in which steps towards the evolution of a grammar for case are simulated
Grammar is seen as an evolving adaptive system that is shaped and negotiated by the agents as they optimise communication
Please let me know if there are any problems or other matters that I can help with
I do nt think that it s going to be particularly helpful to me to be included in the ongoing correspondence at this stage so I d be grateful if you d delete my address from further exchanges whilst this crossreferencing process is going on
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Re how to talk about a distinction in text mining
NAME
In the terminology of the NAME NAME NAME NAME program WEBSITE NAME NUM relations are termed explicit and NAME NUM relations are termed implicit
See the site documentation for more details
NAME
In text mining I find it useful to distinguish between these NUM ways in which text can carry information about real world entities
NAME NUM
The information about the entity is present as a natural language utterance in the text eg Mrs
NAME lives in NAME
NAME NUM
The textual record is linked to the person and that link is critical for using the text as a source of information about the real world entity
For instance Mrs NAME in an email to a social newsgroup use various vocabulary make references to locations etc that would lead one to believe that the author of the message lives in NAME
The distinction is not sharp and the same piece of text can obviously carry information in both ways
Linguistically perhaps the difference just boils down to resolving the personal pronoun NUM using the Sender field of the email rather than a name in the text
In practice however I find the NUM to be very different
In particular NAME NUM is much more susceptible to text classification approaches
One assumes the whole document is about the person to which it is linked and you classify the person by classifying the document
In NAME NUM however you have to be much more serious about the NAME since perhaps only that single sentence talks about the entity you re interested in and may do some in a way where the linguistic structure makes a lot of difference
Anyway I m trying to think of a good pair of terms to talk about NAME NUM vs NAME NUM
NAME vs NAME
Third person vs First person
Any suggestions
Cheers NAME
NAME NAME NAME WEBSITE NAME on text categorization filtering search mining your need here
Re NAME Corpus Sanitation
Hi all NUM absolutely second NAME s post
In fact I have issues in principle with anonymization as this will obviously affect phonological aspects of the corpus due to the very anonymization
Likewise it will tend to skew proper nouns as these are the NUM anonymized generally and these are some issues which interest me particularly
I know that people have addressed the general issue and the ethical questions are real but there must be some way around this problem
Jim
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Dear All
I was interested to read in the recent posting to the list by NAME NAME CHAR see below that he was uncertain as to whether he should make his corpus publicly available because it contained some uncensored words NAME s point NUM
I guess that this means bad language I assume it does not rel ate to anonymization issues as they are covered in NAME s point NUM If this is about bleeping out words in corpora should nt we encourage NAME not to do this
Surely we want corpora to contain uncensored speech
The point for me of using corpora is to describe account for language as it is rather than language as we wish it to be
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NAME great and cognitive scientist NAME NAME on the mind brain If ever I gotta bust your brains out baby NAME It ll make you lose your mind
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project
Hi NAME
Please can I meet up with you briefly NAME this morning Monday to discuss a couple of issues
Thanks
NAME
Re Multilingual text categorisation
NAME NAME
NAME voor NAME suggestie
NAME je dat wel eens geprobeerd of NAME stukken met verschillende NAME uit elkaar kan houden
NAME
NAME
NAME wrote
NAME NAME wrote
And connected to this does anyone know references or methods for dealing with the same problem in normal topic text classification eg when a long thread of discussion is to be classified but it jumps from NUM topic to the next
NAME NAME and her articles on texttiling
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NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NUM a NUM AB NAME NAME NAME NUM fax NUM email EMAIL
Re word simplification project for NAME NAME
NUM Analyse the CIDE NAME definitions for the target verbs to find the candidate substitutable terms
I am not sure whether this will be too difficult or not
The idea would be that if you had a definition like CIDE s
extinguish to stop a fire or light burning
you d want to get something like
stop NAME burning
I suspect this will get quite interesting for example the definition of douse is
to stop a fire or light burning or shining esp
by putting water on it or covering it with something
so he ll need to decide whether or not to get rid of parentheticals and more importantly whether he s dousing a light or fire
interestingly the definition of extinguish does nt have the or shining bit in it
I suspect paraphrasing will only help when the paraphrase is reasonably short
Again NAME might be in a good position to decide on how short
NAME seems to be the opposite of what the summarisation crowd call content conflation
Example from NAME NUM
NAME defeated NAME NUM
It was a tight game where the lead kept changing can be conflated to generate NAME outlasted NAME NUM
not quite sure how she does that though
definitely not from the cide definition of outlast
Re matrix NUM
CONGRATULATIONS
You are now officially a geographer
See you later
CHAR
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Hey NAME
I VE FINISHED
We re meeting at ish by the ticket machine in the NAME cinema
I ll be helping at the NAME Cafe until NUM and then am going onto NAME Vaults to see a few geographers and then onto the cinema you d be more than welcome
Drop me a text if you want to come along for a drink otherwise I ll see you at NUM
love NAME xxx
What time are we meeting tonight NAME
You said something about having a drink beforehand where will you be
What time
Later
CHAR
NAME EMAIL
Hi NAME CHAR
Keep it real man
See you on Tuesday
Laters
NAME
Re
I take it then that you re sorted for childcare Thurs NAME
We will aim to appear NAME pm unless I am severely held up in NAME
lots of love to you in these crazy times
NAME
Dr NAME NAME Codirector NAME for Narrative Research School of Social Sciences University of East NAME NAME Rd NAME NAME NAME NUM email EMAIL
If you are free after work on Friday we would love to see you after about
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help will be needed with all manner of things not least sitting down and drinking a toast
but sweet of you to think about kids etc It is madness here with packing up before breakfast and after dinner
we were all up at NUM this am
NAME
From NAME NAME EMAIL To NAME NAME EMAIL NAME Wed NUM NAME NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM
I m sure you re in the midst of moving madness
Just wanted to let you know that I have exam boards all day Thurs Fri in NAME otherwise would offer to be with kids
NAME thinks she s picking them up tomorrow but both have invites for after school
Would you like me to direct her your way
Also if someone could get the kids overr here they are welcome to play with ours after school
Shall we bring you food and drink Fri night with the understanding that I ca nt be certain what time I can leave NAME
good luck and we send our love
NAME
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I have the revised manuscript for this paper which was received on NUM April NUM
CHAR NAME files was forwarded to you on NUM April for approval
If you are in agreement I will send the paper to Production this week
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It appears that the emails you send do not have a NAME field in their headers
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NAME Document filtering tasks models and implementation
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Much information retrieval research revolves around a canonical model of a search task a user issuing a query to a temporarily static document collection and being presented with a ranked list of documents with perhaps a feedback loop
This model informs many aspects of the work
the kinds of theoretical approach taken many implementation issues including the design of efficient fastresponse systems the measurement of effectiveness and the qualitative testing of systems
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NUM alternative is represented by the filtering task as defined for the NAME exercise
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Special Issue on WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION
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The process of automatically determining the meanings of words word sense disambiguation NAME is an important stage in language understanding
It has been shown to be useful for many natural language processing applications including machine translation information retrieval mono and crosslingual corpus analysis summarization and document navigation
The importance of NAME has been acknowledged since the s and the field has recently enjoyed a resurgence of interest including the creation of NAME an evaluation exercise allowing a basic precision recall comparison of participating systems which has been run twice to date
The current availability of large corpora and powerful computing resources has made the exploration of machine learning and statistical methods possible
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This special issue of the Journal of NAME NAME due for publication in July NUM is intended to describe the current state of the art in word sense disambiguation
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Combinations of methods and knowledge sources
Which methods or knowledge sources complement each other and which provide similar disambiguation information
How should they be combined
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What corpus are you using for your experiments
I think that the second solution will work well if you are using a general corpus
However one of the problem I have observed when using NAME in other domains like medicine or biology is that the translation of domain specific terms will be very poor
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For some days I have sent a message to ask whether you know references in categorization of multilingual texts
I thank all the people who answered my question
I asked this question because I have been interested on this subject for some months
According to the answers received I can say that there are not works on this subject compared to works in the NAME crosslanguage information retrieval
The problem that I treat is as follows
Suppose that we have some corpora in several languages
The subjects of these corpora are comparable
Each text of these corpora is label by NUM or more classes subjects
It is about sotries of newspapers in several languages which cover different subjects like Conflict in NAME Conflict of Interests in NAME NAME NAME NAME Destruction of Ukrainian nuclear weapons NAME American car industry The objective is to use the techniques of texts categorization on these corpora
Our hope is to be able to know the subject of each new text whatever its language
At the beginning I had NUM possible solutions suppose that NAME NUM CHAR where CHAR is the number of languages and NAME NUM NAME where Cli is the number of classes for the language NAME
NUM the first solution is to learn a model for each language thus if I have NUM languages I must learn NUM models NUM for each then in the phase of classification for each new text one identifies its language and applies the model of this language on it
This is the simplest solution and the most direct but this solution is limited because it supposes to have sufficient quantity of texts for each class and for each language and it require CHAR learning
NUM The second solution is to learn on only NUM language NAME as we do usually and then for each new text one identifies its language and one translates it by an automatic translator into the language NAME and then one applies the learned model of the language NAME on the translated text
I made experiments on the NUM approaches and according to obtained results the second solution perfomes well
Therefore the introduction of machine translation in the process of categorization helps to recognize the subject of a text
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I am want to explore some other way to classify and or understand texts
I have some experience in wordsoccurrence statistic techniques but I ju st want more
In fact I am looking for works about algorithms able to learn grammar basics phrase structure or just words relationships location in text common topic
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I would prefer some nonnaturallanguageprocessing as long as animals can learn a language without grammar knowledge It seems
I know that goes away from classic text classification
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Some colleagues and I are planning research on second language learning using a corpus of written texts
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Ideally we would like to be able to tag grammatical errors automatically
I d be most grateful if anyone could suggest appropriate software for such a task or point me to recent literature where such software is reviewed
I ll post a summary of any replies
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Hierarchical Autonomous Resonant Primitives An Evolutionary Principle
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This is what is developed
How these HARPs are developed is a related but distinct question which we then address
Evidence is presented from evolutionary computation developmental neuroscience and complex systems research to support the validity of this reformulation
The existence of NAME has been alluded to in NAME s nearlydecomposable systems in work on the evolution of modularity and in recent work subsumed under the term dynamical hierarchies
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I my knowledge following paper use itemset for text categorization
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Information and Knowledge Management CIKM NUM pages NUM NAME NAME NUM
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In a study of mine we have observed an improved performance of NAME classifier and c classifier while taken itemset as features for text classifier
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Dear NAME
we are planning to do research on the comparison of decision rule classifiers on various data sets
This should also include text categorization tasks
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Having such an input available would be a great support for us
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NAME says she can NAME it
I strongly suspect we ll need to give him extra time for the project too since this is nt mentioned in the report I probably ought to discuss it with the college and perhaps ask the psychologist for recommendations
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Hi NAME
NAME also should be talking with your students NAME NAME NAME about NAME perl NAME implementations as he also needs morph
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NAME please get in touch with them when they have their technical meeting
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Some references
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I ve been working on the reviewers comments on the NAME paper for NAME and there were a couple of references which might be useful for the proposal
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NUM Event Extraction from Biomedical Papers using a Full NAME in Proceedings of NAME NUM
WEBSITE
NAME NAME et NAME
NUM A Pragmatic Information Extraction Strategy for gathering Data on Genetic Interaction In proceedings of th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
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The NAME stuff is very like what we did on NAME and contains some good motivation for doing full NAME analysis
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SMILEY I also noticed that one linked from spamarchive
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Re Multilingual text categorisation
What is the problem precisely
If it is to categorise the language of documents then I can see that this is a good approach
However if it is to apply a set of subject categories to multilingual documents then obtaining suitable training data will be a more difficult problem
You would need a sample of documents about each topic in each language
NAME NAME NAME Open University NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NUM NUM NUM NUM WEBSITE
Both language modeling papers I listed mentioned a simple technique for obtaining training data using a standard search engine such as NAME ie you can simply specify the language of the document to be searched for
NAME
NAME NAME NAME EMAIL
By Multilingual NAME NAME I mean the problem of automatically assigning a category to a document whatever it is the language
The suggested approach build separate language models for the different languages supposes to have a sufficient quantity of texts in each language and for each category to be able to learn a model
In the real life this
is not always true
NAME
At NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM you wrote
I suppose if you meant applying text categorization methods to a multilingual set of documents then you could just build separate language models for the different languages using the same approach as mentioned in the above papers
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Thanks for the argument adjunct domain stuff I ll try to rewrite my conditions
What s the deadline for the workshop paper
it might be better if I work out the noncoref conditions in NAME terms and we treat it as a joint paper but I m quite busy for the next couple of weeks
The workshop deadline is tomorrow so I think that I ll submit what I ve got so far which suggests that the performance of the NAME and NAME algorithm is on average only NUM better when it s using the NAME and NAME parser than when it uses NAME GRs
The performance is significantly better though
There is a journal paper that I m thinking of writing special issue for the NAME conference
It d be an extension of my NAME paper and this workshop paper varying full parsers in NAME and Leass and using a shallow parser in NAME and Leass basic comparison with NAME and NAME
The deadline for that one is th March so that would make sense to be a joint paper if you did nt mind supplying me with the necessary linguistic knowledge to make some changes to my programs
NAME
Re NAME Question
Yes
On Friday December NUM NUM at NUM NUM AM NAME NAME wrote
Hello everybody
Can anybody confirm which is the last edition of the NAME
Is it the one which can be found on WEBSITE
Thank you beforehand
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I am writing on behalf of Professor NAME NAME who recently appointed NAME NAME as a Research Student here
She was due to arrive at the beginning of the week and has not yet turned up
Do you possibly have a contact number for her so that we can get in touch with her
I would be very grateful for any assistance you can provide
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Dear NAME and NAME
I can confirm that NAME NAME worked for me at the University of NAME from st January NUM to th NAME NUM
Many thanks
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NAME NAME email EMAIL NAME NUM NAME NAME NAME NUM NAME University of NAME fax NUM NAME NAME NAME NAME WEBSITE
NAME results
Hi NAME
Here are the baseline results for my classifier on the lingspam corpus
precision for GENUINE NUM recall for GENUINE NUM
precision for NAME NUM recall for NAME NUM
F for GENUINE NUM F for NAME NUM
There seems to be some confusion in the literature about the exact definitions of precision and recall for the class classification problem
I define recall as NUM NAME FN and precision as NUM NAME FP
where NAME true positive NAME false positive NAME false negative
ie recall is measuring the number of correctly classified units for class CHAR against the number missed whereas precision is measuring the number of correctly classified units for class CHAR against the total number of class CHAR classifications made
In some of the literature these measurements are the other way around
This gives a precision recall F for each class
NAME
Re NAME Re Re hyperonyms WordNet extractions
I also do not see why you should nt be able to do with with NAME or NAME for that matter at WEBSITE and Lingua
By the way simple text files are really not the way to go for more complex semantic relationships
You run into all sorts of trouble when if when your ontology has to track links across multiple tree structures
You might want to have a look at NAME topic maps
A
NAME
On Thursday NUM April NUM NUM NUM NAME NAME wrote
Hi NAME
Thank you very much for the information about WordNet
But I do nt
know if I can use the very useful linguistic information provided by WordNet to create my own lexicons
In fact I need to have in a txt
file simple lists such
physical entity
organism
animal
plant
I ca nt save all words
So I d like to have either the ability to
program NAME with WordNet or to find another lexicon
The goal of this list is to contribute to find the new information
in a discurse in order to model prosody
I hope that my explanations are clear
There are packages for the major scripting languages that allow you access to NAME I personally use the NAME package
If you search for that in the web you ll find it
With the scripting languages you can easilly create something what you have in mind
If you install WordNet on NAME you have the possibility to access the functionality and the data easily in even NAME
best wishes
NAME
NAME NAME WEBSITE
NAME NAME NAME EMAIL
NAME Academic writing Corpora
I would be grateful if someone could tell me whether a corpus of only written academic papers whether journal articles or theses has already been done
If yes where can I access it
Thanking you all in advance
Re Linguistics at NAME
Their NAME meets on NAME th June to vote on this proposal I believe
Obviously I support our colleagues at NAME in their attempt to get this reconsidered and would hope that a decision for the NAME to support them could be reached rather soon
And not only from their point of view If their HoD is right the result would be financially adverse for the university apparently
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Dear NAME Many of you may by now have heard the shocking news that the University of NAME is intending to close its Linguistics Department
NAME NAME has written to ask whether colleagues might feel able to write to the NAME NAME in protest
My own feeling is that it would be right to do so but I would not wish to speak for the Association without asking members for your views
If the general feeling is that the Committee should not write on behalf of the NAME I will be writing in any case in my own capacity as a Professor of Linguistics at another NAME University
However my feeling is that a letter from one of the main learned societies in the academic discipline involved might be helpful to the case
Views please
I will be away from NAME from lunchtime on Sunday until Thursday morning and not accessing email but on my return I will post a summary if colleagues have contacted me off list
Best wishes April Professor April NAME Head of Department Department of English Language and NAME University of NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME
President of the Linguistics Society of NAME NAME For more information on the NAME including details of how to join see WEBSITE
Re NAME your email reduce your spam
NAME reply
CHAR
On Mon NUM May NUM NAME NAME wrote
I m not sure if such a corpus would be more use to spammers to overcome bogofilter see feature article in NAME Scientist about a month ago hide some genuine text into a spam email to tip the probabilities all wrong but anyway
This is already standard practice though they simply type banal headers and do nt bother to model real text statistically
The point of a statistical approach is that it can always renew adapt it s model of spam but needs a good idea of what a genuine email looks like too esp
if the NUM get closer over time
It depends very much on the subject
For example I could send you the contents of my supervision folder which is full of emails related to supervision organisation
But that might bias things a bit I mean you might conclude that genuine email is more likely to contain words like supervision than it actually is
Bias from any NUM source is not likely to be a problem as we plan to gather a large corpus ideally k or so of emails
NAME will get in touch about what you might donate thanks
I m not NUM convinced that it s not copyright violation for me to use other people s emails without asking them
I trust the anonymiser removes ALL numbers NAME and NAME NAME
Try it and see for yourself copyright is in verbatim text and has to be asserted at the time of dissemination
Nevertheless you are right that there is an issue of privacy so you shld not submit anything that you think your friends would object to once anonymised
It might make things better if people can anonymise their mail BEFORE sending it to you rather than trust that you re not accidentally reading the original version
If you
The system relies on having preferably large coherent bodies of emails to do it well
The site is to give you a taster of what your email shld look like when anonymised
We ll only be looking at the anonymised email very selectively to check for errors so at that stage it shld be pretty harmless as we wo nt know whose it is etc
It might be quicker just to look at lots of NAME threads or something like that I think at the moment any thread that is big is not likely to be spam although it s theoretically possible that spammers will reply to real threads
This is certainly NUM source if manually filtered but probably not a very good model of the full range of genuine email
best NAME
results
NAME
You might be interested in some initial results the test set is NUM genuine emails and NUM spam
For the genuine emails
NUM NUM classified as NAME
NUM NUM classified as GENUINE
For the spam emails
NUM NUM classified as NAME
NUM NUM classified as GENUINE
A reasonably good starting point I think plenty of room for improvement but relatively high success at classifying genuine email is encouraging as that is perhaps the most safetycritical aspect
I have nt studied the spam results in detail yet but I suspect many of the misclassifications are due to the fact that I am only classifying the body text at the moment and many of the training spam emails only contain a subject and perhaps a weblink or something in the body
Anyway I ll keep you posted
NAME
NAME talk Wed NUM June NAME
NAME talk this Wed NUM June NUM NUM in PEVA
NAME NAME from NAME University Will talk on
NAME NAME NAME on Landmarks using NAME
In order to have an autonomous robot the robot must be able to navigate independently within an environment
Place cells are cells that respond to the environment the animal is in In this paper we present a model of place cells based on NAME Organising Maps
The aim of this paper is to show that localisation can be performed even without having a built in map
The model presented shows that the landmarks are selected without any human interference
After training a robot can localise itself within a learnt environment
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Subject Survey of Academic Staff working in the sciences ASSET
Dear colleague
Earlier this month I wrote to explain that NAME is one of the participating universities in the national NAME Survey of Science Engineering and Technology in HE ASSET which is found at
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The University recently won an NAME award for its Women in NAME NAME WEBSITE NAME is ViceChair of NAME
The web survey closing date has been extended to Friday NUM May
If you have not already done so I do hope that you will be able to spare around NUM minutes to complete the questions before NUM May
The data received will provide valuable information on the contributing factors to career progression and science career paths in HE
If you have already completed the questionnaire
thank you very much and I am sorry to have sent an unnecessary reminder
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NAME TimeLearn NAME studentship
Subject NAME studentship From NAME NAME EMAIL
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship to join a research project funded by ORG TimeLearn
The PhD research will investigate personalised elearning involving the use of NAME programming tools to design personalised learning environments on the web
Applicants should have a First or NAME Second Class Degree or Masters NAME in the areas of computer science and or information systems
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NAME for the Study of NAME NAME TODAY Thursday
Please do nt forget that today Thursday nd May at NUM pm in the NAME NAME Theatre
NAME NAME from the NAME Institute NAME will be talking on
Exploring bacterial pathogen biology through genome sequencing
Everybody is very welcome to attend
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Re project
Yes please
Shall we do something Saturday night and I can get it back then
NAME
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On NAME NUM May NUM NAME NAME wrote
oh meddez your batteries are charged now
your frontlight is starlight starbright in the words of NAME
do you want it back
Loving it NAME loving it
On NAME NUM May NUM NAME NAME wrote
decided to NUM it up a bit
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Re Hey
ok SMILEY
CHAR
NAME Wed NUM NAME NUM CHAR CHAR NAME wrote
yes yes it is
how very observant of you
NAME NAME wrote
Is it NAME rather than NAME
CHAR
NAME Wed NUM NAME NUM CHAR CHAR NAME wrote
hey NAME it was lovely to meet you too
I will let you know how it all goes NAME has really blessed my fundraising efforts so far I made pound NUM in a week
just need to learn to trust more
hope the dissertation goes well and that your summer is just as fun and dangerous as my own SMILEY NAME xx
NAME NAME wrote
Hi NAME
Just an email to say it was nice to meet you the other day and I hope this summer in NAME is challenging fun dangerous in the best sense
If you get a chance let me know how it goes
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NAME NE s msg re exam papers on the web
EMAIL said
I assume that you will wish to have past examination papers on the web for students to consult and that NAME will be setting up a page for these
I d like to have the past papers on the web but I do nt think it s especially urgent
If NAME is overstretched right now I could just reply to NAME saying that we ll do it later
I think one of us ought to reply though
NAME
Re reference
Thanks
CHAR
NAME NAME ORG EMAIL Theoretical and NAME NAME WEBSITE
Tutorial vote
I vote for NAME s group
Re NAME Question
Hello everybody
I would like to ask you a question is it possible to convert a plain document written in the word processor word into a NAME one
What do you mean with plain document
You can write quite a lot of formats with word
If plain means ASCIItext with linefeeds you can simply write a perl script like
while chomp print line print print linen
You can also load your document with NAME and save in NAME s native format it will be NAME then but the markup is probably not what you need
Cheers
NAME
Re project progress
The tagging scripts are now in hr unixhome perl
Thanks
NAME
On NAME NUM NAME NUM NAME NAME wrote
Let me know when you ve uploaded your code
thanks NAME
NAME again
Oh and could you apply the same to the bncweighted directory
written dataparses written dataparses error written dataparses written dataparses
Cheers
late tick session
I should ve said there will be no penalty for missed deadlines if you get the final Language NUM ticks on Tuesday
That is the last chance to get the tick though
NAME
Re email
Hey NAME
I guess you looked at the website right
Making the corpus body of email data available to the academic community means just that
The idea is that the anonymisation procedure removes any references to real people places organisations locations etc and then the corpus is used as a benchmark training and testing resource for academics doing research into the junk email classification problem
That means that they will use computers to generate statistical probabilities of certain words appearing at certain places in emails and then use these to classify new emails as either genuine or junk
Having a corpus that multiple people test systems on is vital for reproducibility of experiments etc
Do nt worry noone as seen any of the emails you let me use
Obviously I did nt use any of the NUM from NAME etc anyway The idea of the website is to convince people that it is safe to use the emails they donated as part of this corpus because it will be impossible to tell where the emails came from where they were sent to who they were about etc etc
But this will only happen with explicit permission from the donor and if you re not happy about yours being used in that way then that s fine
It s still been really useful for me to use them thus far
Speak soon
NAME
NAME Wed NUM May NUM NAME CHAR NAME wrote
NAME that was decidedly unclear
What do you mean about sending it to the academic community
Feel free to use my emails for your project but I am not sure I want other academics to read them
NAME
NAME NAME EMAIL wrote Dear Email Donors
When you get a chance please could you have a look at the following website
WEBSITE
It discusses the procedure I am using to anonymise the emails you have donated
Please read to the bottom of the page where there is a section on disseminating the corpus to the scientific community to aid research in the area of email filtering and classification
Of course the email you donated will only be used with your permission
Thanks I really appreciate your help
NAME
It s NAME Week
Help NAME help others
Call NUM NUM to give or donate online now at WEBSITE
Re NAME statistical named entity recognition
I am chairing a workshop NUM July NUM after NAME NUM NAME intended to address questions related to multilingual NE recognition and reusability of statistical and symbolic methods across languages
I encourage you and and others to submit a paper to the workshop and or to attend it
Here s the relevant info website to be up by NUM January and an official NAME to go out via the customary channels tentative submission deadline NUM March NUM
Note NAME is providing some travel funds to help defray expenses for students
NAME NAME NAME Natural Language Group Title and description Multilingual and Mixedlanguage Named NAME NAME NAME NAME and Symbolic Models
Organizing Committee NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME
Description Named Entity NE Recognition systems vary widely from highspeed bulk methods optimized for indexing to deep semantic parsers tuned for specific domains
Optimal ways to combine statistical and symbolic models also vary depending on applications and tasks
Is it possible to
maximize use of knowledgerich resources eg lexicons NE grammars parsing while permitting corpusbased training for domain or language
acquire and share resources including lexicons and grammars across languages
balance performance speed with reasonable accuracy
use specific language patterns while permitting rapid transfer to another language
minimize variability in results across language types
We welcome research on combined models in which these tradeoffs are calculated in particular ways
We hope that the workshop will bring together work on robust and deep multilingual and mixed language NE recognition from different perspectives
Possible topics include
the role of the lexicon vs dynamic processing information
grammars and lexicons shared or ported across languages acquisition of multilingual resources eg from corpora translating NEs across multiple languages
domain tuning
Papers may cover NUM or more of these or related areas
Demonstrations of implemented NE systems are also welcome
Program committee NAME NAME University of NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME University NAME NAME NAME Inc NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME University of Science and Technology NAME NAME University of NAME NAME NAME ORG NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME University of NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME Technology NAME NAME NAME NAME of NAME NAME NAME NAME ORGRE NAME NAME NAME NAME Electronics and Computer Technology
Hello list members My Ph NAME thesis is to be on named entity recognition for Norwegian
I want to use existing programming tools implementing different statistical methods
Most of my reading has been on maximum entropy modelling
Do any of you have any experience with existing tools that can be used for named entity recognition
Ideally I would like to be able to experiment with the kind of information provided to the system so I want open source code that can be modified
In the case of maximum entropy modelling I would appreciate the possibility of trying different algorithms
It would be an extra bonus if I could try out the frequency redistibution algorithm advocated by NAME
I intend to post a summary of the comments received
I appreciate your help
Best NAME NAME
NAME NAME stipendiat NAME Inst for lingvistiske fag WEBSITE besFksadr rom NUM NAME NAME NAME NAME NUM NUM NUM NUM faks NUM NUM NUM NUM Epost EMAIL
paper NUM
NAME
we have assigned paper NUM to a different section
so you do nt need to review it
if you had already started and had written comments please send them to me
thank you for your collaboration
regards NAME
Re case solved not
NAME I m coming in soon
Sounds interesting
CHAR
On NAME NUM NAME NUM NAME NAME wrote
do you wanna run tonight
now
the thing I told you about yesterday an offtheshelf text classifier beats my featurevector only slightly which means I m useless
more importantly just for the hell of it I trained the classifier on the whole document collection
ie something anyone could have done in NUM minutes
NUM accuracy whatever test set I use
NAME solved time to go home
unfortunately something s telling me something s not right
NAME
results
Hi NAME
I have got some results
I wrote them up and sent them to ranlp
The paper WEBSITE please have a look if you have time
I tried to address some of the criticism I received from eacl such as Having results by including some NAME bias by mentioning that I was aware of other works in discourse segmentation NAME for example and justifying that for the purpose of comparison with NAME then NAME bias is inevitable
I also mentioned that I was aware of the need for more than NUM judges which is what I had for this
I am still working on it though
Thank you NAME
Re Linguistics at NAME
A letter from the NAME is surely appropriate but that it seems to me does not preclude letters from individuals and other groups
I am writing on behalf of NAME at NAME
NAME NAME
Certainly NAME should make strong representations to NAME
NAME NAME
Dear NAME Many of you may by now have heard the shocking news that the University of NAME is intending to close its Linguistics Department
NAME NAME has written to ask whether colleagues might feel able to write to the NAME NAME in protest
My own feeling is that it would be right to do so but I would not wish to
speak for the Association without asking members for your views
If the general feeling is that the Committee should not write on behalf of
the NAME I will be writing in any case in my own capacity as a Professor of Linguistics at another NAME University
However my feeling
is that a letter from one of the main learned societies in the academic
discipline involved might be helpful to the case
Views please
I will be away from NAME from lunchtime on Sunday until Thursday morning and not accessing email but on my return I will post a summary if colleagues have contacted me off list
Best wishes April Professor April NAME Head of Department Department of English Language and NAME University of NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME
President of the Linguistics Society of NAME NAME For more information on the NAME including details of how to join see
WEBSITE
NAME NAME NAME Fellow Language Studies NAME NAME University EMAIL
Re Conspiracy
Heavy man heavy
On Mon NUM May NUM NAME NAME wrote
Boys
Radio is interviewing the NAME eurovision team
Apparently there s an investigation being carried out because the monitor did nt work at the beginning of the song hence the terrible pitch
Sabotage
Also the backing track played was nt the track that was sent by the group to the Eurovision people NAME interesting
tut tut tut
NAME NAME
NAME College NAME NUM NUM NAME Road Mob NUM NUM NAME NAME NAME Email EMAIL
Re matrix NUM
Hmmm
Have seen NAME NUM and do nt really want to learn how to lose a guy in NUM days
I can lose a guy in NUM seconds just by talking about computer WEBSITE seconds
I guess it depends on whether Billios can get another date for the matrix
Otherwise I m happy to wait
CHAR
On Mon NUM May NUM NAME NAME wrote
righty ho ladies and NAME have been on the NAME village website the last matrix starts at NUM tomorrow
It s a long un and finishes at NUM hardcore
Does that sound ok
Or if NAME is keen to see matrix and for the pleasure of our company we could see something else and hang on a few days for the matrix other films on tomorrow at NUM ish are How to lose a guy in NUM days or CHAR men NUM what do you think
love NAME xx
NAME NAME the heart bleeds
On Mon NUM May NUM NAME NAME wrote
I think we concluded that
NUM You lot were going to go on Tuesday NUM I m going to be going to the cinema alone NUM Again NUM NAME was not the best performance
Girls and NAME
What are we doing about the matrix
I can do any day apart from Thurs at the moment but I need to know NAME I ve got some other things to book
CHAR
Re lunch on Friday
By the way do you want me to tell you what questions I ll ask at the defense I have nt sat down and got a list yet as I have nt reread it since writing my report but I remember genuinely wanting to know things like
Not everyone agrees with NAME on this topic so I did nt get hints from everyone
But I ll think about the questions you raised I think they are fair
Thanks NAME
NAME NAME NAME Tuesday th March
Natural Language and Information Processing Group Seminar WEBSITE
pm Tuesday th March FW
ORG NAME NAME Building NAME NAME Avenue WEBSITE
NAME Experiments on the Automatic Induction of German Verb Classes
Speaker NAME NAME im NAME University of NAME
NAME
The verb is central to the structure and the meaning of a sentence so available lexical resources on verb knowledge represent an important means for Natural Language Processing applications
This talk focuses on the automatic induction of verb classes a clustering methodology is developed which utilises the relationship between verb meaning components and verb behaviour to provide a classification of German verbs
In the first part of the talk I describe the acquisition of lexical syntactic and semantic verb properties from an unsupervised trained statistical grammar model
The properties are used to define German verbs on NUM levels of verb description purely syntactic frame types prepositional phrase information and selectional preferences
In the second part of the talk I describe the adjustment of the standard clustering algorithm kMeans to the task of inducing semantic verb classes from the various verb descriptions
The clustering parameters clustering evaluation and clustering results are interpreted and discussed
All welcome For instructions on how to get to the ORG please see WEBSITE
Fwd NAME Introductory Kit
I suggest that we get a copy
NAME
Dear Colleague
A NAME introductory kit including a NAME with animated tutorials NAME documentation in NAME format and more than NUM welldocumented example models can now be ordered free of charge at WEBSITE
NAME is a powerful multiphysics modelling package using finite element analysis in NUM NUM and NUM and is fully integrated with NAME
It is used in research product development and teaching in such fields as
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I do not know what to say re your sabbatical
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The decision about whether or not you get leave will not be mine
My position is this My main concern as NAME has to be about having adequate resources in the area
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I personally would rather the NAME issue were dealt with before sabbaticals were considered
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I could nt have expressed it better but your letter echoes my own reaction to the initial past presidents letter
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WORKSHOP ON ADAPTIVE TEXT EXTRACTION AND MINING ATEM plus introductory TUTORIAL
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NUM September NUM tentative NAME NAME
Important facts
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MOTIVATION Vast quantities of valuable knowledge are embedded in unstructured textual formats
NAME of text are currently available on the public Web in intranets and other private repositories and on our personal desktop machines
In many cases the only way to access such documents is through blunt instruments such as keywordbased document retrieval
In recent years there has been significant research and considerable commercial interest in technologies for automatically extracting and mining useful structured knowledge from unstructured text
Current trends suggest a movement away from pure natural language processing approaches requiring the manual development of rules to a shallower less knowledge intensive techniques based on techniques from machine learning information retrieval and data mining
Adaptive text extraction and mining is an enabling technology with a wide variety of applications
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Members of other communities eg information integration and data mining could find the workshop very interesting as well
Previous workshops on the use of machine learning for information extraction were held at ORG ECAI and IJCAI
AREAS OF INTEREST Areas of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to
machine learning and natural language
learning to annotate documents
ontology learning
information retrieval and learning
information integration from textual and multimedia resources
relevant aspects of humancomputer interaction and semisupervised learning
SUBMISSION DETAILS ATEM will accept NUM types of submissions long papers that describe completed research maximum NUM pages and short papers that describe ongoing work or challenging ideas maximum NUM pages
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Paper cameraready deadline Friday NUM July NUM
NAME date Monday NUM September NUM tentative
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Language Evolution and NAME Workshop Course at the European NAME School in Logic Language and Information NAME
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As part of the European NAME School in Logic Language and Information to be held in NAME there will be a workshop course on computational approaches to language evolution
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NAME Foundations of SpeechtoSpeech Translation
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NAME was a project for speechtospeech translation that lasted NUM years and encompassed NUM research groups primarily in NAME
The original goal was to develop a portable translation system for German and English for the domains of appointment scheduling and travel planning
Later translation between German and Japanese was added and both a telephone translation system and a remote maintenance system for NAME were developed
This book contains NUM articles grouped into NUM sections which address various aspects of the NAME project
The title is somewhat misleading as the phrase foundations of speechtospeech translation seems to imply that the book will be instructive with respect to the task or at least contain comprehensive highlevel discussion about it
Instead most articles of the book report on specific components and approaches developed and utilized to support speechtospeech translation in NAME
This is fine but readers should be aware that the book is in no way a textbook background knowledge relevant to the individual topics is assumed by the authors of most articles
Having said this if the term foundations is taken to mean consideration of all the various kinds of data components techniques etc that could take part in performing the task then the articles of the book certainly cover the ground extensively
The articles themselves vary in their focus and emphasis
The stated goals of NAME were essentially oriented toward producing an end application and this course provided an excellent setting for a considerable amount of research to be done
Thus some articles could be roughly characterized as here is how we made it work while others could be captioned as here is this interesting thing we did within the scope of the project
As such there is material of interest for both academically and commercially oriented readers
Throughout the book there is a strong emphasis on producing modules that can perform their computations in realtime and with such a large number of different technologies applied in NAME this should be of interest to those interested in developing various kinds of practical NAME systems
With all the different topics covered much more high level discussion of how the various bits and modules fit together would have been very welcome including even brief overviews of the different sections explaining basically what the different articles are about and why they are there
Such overviews also could have provided a forum for more metalevel discussion on how well the different approaches and strategies worked out
It would also have been useful to have a map of the system with pointers to the articles where the relevant modules are discussed it is sometimes hard to tell what depended on what from just reading the articles and it is often necessary to crossreference several articles to properly situate them within the context of the overall system
The articles are too numerous and diverse in specialization to comment on each one individually in a short review by NUM reviewer however I will try to give an overall sense of the book s contents in the remainder of this review
The first section contains NUM articles that provide an overview of the completed NAME system and facts and figures about the project itself
The overview is quite useful for getting a feeling for the system as a whole before launching into the articles on the specifics
It provides very highlevel descriptions of some of the various components and how they fit together as well as general discussion regarding the scope of the task which was undertaken the data collection effort and software architecture
It concludes by summarizing some of the lessons learned over the course of the project unfortunately only NUM pages are devoted to this when in fact it seems that it would be worthy of its own chapter
Also the overview clearly stays focused on the successes of NAME whereas it would be very beneficial for the reader whether research or application oriented to also hear about the problems that were encountered and the things that did not go so well
The next section contains NUM articles that deal with topics in processing spoken input with all its messy details and transforming it into representations that can be processed by the syntax semantics and translation components
The first half of the section is concerned with the methodologies and techniques for speech recognition covering topics such as language identification providing robustness in the face of various noise conditions optimizations for improving the efficiency of speech recognition components and investigations into new techniques for capturing long range dependencies in language modeling
The latter articles report on the creation of pronunciation dictionaries from data to provide variants for canonical pronunciations the NAME and classification of prosodic information detection of emotional behavior by users and the detection and correction of speech repairs as a filter process between recognition and subsequent processing stages
The third section is the largest it includes NUM articles addressing lexical and syntactic processing
NUM different approaches to parsing were developed and integrated a robust chunk parser built from a cascade of finite state transducers a probabilistic NAME parser and an optimized NAME NAME NAME Grammar NAME parser
These approaches which are each discussed in separate articles provided the means to balance robustness with accuracy and depth of syntactic analysis
There is also a further brief article describing how their results were combined
While the NAME parser provides full semantic analyses the chunk parser and NAME parser produce only syntactic trees how interpretations are read from these trees is discussed in an article on semantic construction
The use of a NAME syntactic framework such as NAME required considerable justification in the face of the cost of developing grammars and efficient parsing techniques the third section contains an article that lays out some of the arguments for using NAME over other available frameworks and answers some of the concerns regarding the efficiency and complexity of having deep analysis as such at all
NUM further articles describe aspects of the NAME grammars which were developed for German English and Japanese
Since the results of the NUM parsers need to be integrated into a single interpretation for further processing it was necessary to develop a standard interface representation that abstracted from the particularities of each of the approaches
For this NAME NAME Terms NAME were developed and employed and are motivated and described in detail in the fourth article in this section
NAME provide an underspecified flat representation that permits many different kinds of information about an utterance to be stored and accessed including basic predications scope constraints sorts discourse relations syntactic features tense and aspect and prosody
The final article of this section describes the multilingual lexical databases that were developed and highlights some of the issues in dealing with the morphology of the different languages and ensuring that it was possible to retrieve translation equivalents from NUM language to the other for the semantic transfer translation component
There are NUM articles on aspects of semantic processing in the fourth section
The first discusses how the analyses produced by the NUM different parsers were combined to produce a single semantic output and the second deals with processing the intermediate NAME hypotheses of the parsers in robust manner that corrects certain recognition errors and disfluencies in the semantic output of each parser
The next paper focuses on how some of the nonlocal ambiguities in NAME were resolved by incorporating discourse and prosodic information
The rulebased module employed for this handled aspects such as verb and adverb disambiguation anaphora and ellipsis resolution and focus projection
The final article in this section relates how the semantic databases were designed to support multiple languages and ensure that they map material in a given source language to comparable semantic relations in NAME to assist in semantic transfer translation
In the fifth section we come to descriptions of the actual translation engines employed in NAME
NUM main approaches were explored semantic transfer statistical translation substringbased translation casebased translation and dialogact based translation
The different engines tackled the problem in significantly different ways that gave them in some cases complementary strengths and weaknesses
Echoing the multiengine approach to parsing discussed earlier the translations ultimately produced by the NAME system were chosen from those created by these different modules based on the confidence values they assigned to their outputs
The sixth section contains NUM articles which address the recognition representation and use of discourse information within the system
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The final article describes the module which performs contextual disambiguation using the variety of sources of information built up during the deep processing path in NAME and which plays a role in semantic transfer translation
The seventh section deals with sentence realization and speech synthesis
First to be discussed is the NAME generation component which takes the NAME output by the semantic transfer translation module and determines how they should be expressed
After a NAME is fully specified it is handed to NUM syntactic realization components one which uses NAME Grammar NAME and another which uses NAME
The grammars for the former realizer are compiled from the English and Japanese NAME grammars discussed earlier the HPSGtoTAG compilation process is the subject of the second article in this section
The next article deals with the creation of dialog minutes and summaries a useful task which crucially relies on the dialog processing component described in the previous section and the generation component covered in this one
The final article discusses the concepttospeech synthesis component used for producing the final spoken output of the system
The articles in the eighth section describe various aspects of the data collection and corpus creation efforts and evaluation and analysis of different components of NAME
These include information about recording transcription treebanking and analysis of the data utilized to develop the NAME system
NUM articles provide evaluations of the speech recognition and synthesis components and the quality of the different translation paths
These evaluations were carried out at different sites from those which produced the modules which was certainly of particular importance for the translation evaluation which involved NUM competing approaches
There is a further article on a module which attempts to select the best output from one of the translation modules based on the confidence values they produce this article might have been better situated in the fourth section of the book especially since it provides some higher level discussion of the different translation approaches
Finally the NUM articles in the ninth section deal with concerns of software architecture and integration
Since NAME involved NUM research groups with scientists and programmers with varying competencies with respect to programming skills and knowledge of software engineering it was no small task to coordinate the components that were produced at the individual sites and enable them to work together as a whole
A special group was devoted to this task and the article on their effort provides an informative look at the technical and sociological issues which were overcome in this integration
The other article describes how NAME was extended to provide telephone translation services
NAME tackled all sorts of problems on all sorts of fronts resulting in an impressive and extensive body of work that led to NUM scientific publications and NUM spinoff products
The project s funding and activities provided an immense boost for computational linguistics research and development in NAME
This book provides significant insight into the project and it will be useful to researchers and commercial developers who are interested in specific aspects of speechtospeech translation and how they fit within the context of an overall system for translation
The articles are so diverse that it is hard to imagine any single person reading all of the articles contained in the collection since only a subset of them are likely to be of particular interest to any given reader nonetheless it will certainly be an excellent resource for anyone who is specifically interested in NAME itself and can use it to quickly find information on all the modules in NUM big handy volume
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Finally I sent today by fax the license form signed
Let me know the download site
I will be in my country for a couple of weeks I plan to start working with your parser after that
Regarding my work yes I do plan to submit a paper to NAME
Best regards
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NAME please do send NAME the download site
We ll sign the license within the next few days
It would definitely be interesting to see how NAME s parser compares to NAME s performance
I do nt know if NAME has sent you the NAME
See WEBSITE for info
If you fax me a completed licence agreement WEBSITE I ll give you a link you can download the parser from
You might be interested in NAME s dissertation parser work
He s got some interesting results on Global Index NAME modeled as LRPDAs with quite encouraging complexity results even for unlimited index dependencies
That does sound interesting
Sounds like it would make a good paper for the next NAME April NUM NUM WEBSITE
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Below is an email thread relating to a proposal for a special issue on Speaker NAME
The plan would be for a double issue in NAME NUM
The guest editor will by NAME NAME NAME from NAME NAME NAME NAME a second US editor to be decided
I support this proposal
Does everyone else agree
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EMAIL CHAR we should aim for th qurater NUM CHAR we should request a double issue based on papers issue
What is now to do to get formal agreement
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I ll put these points to the NAME
I know there is a strong view that the time between the NAME and publication of the SI should be short as possible without compromising standards
As to number of papers my guess would be possibly as many NUM given the status of the meetings but we could simply restrict it to the NUM or NUM for NUM issue
Otherwise all seems well
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NAME NAME NUM NAME NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM From NAME NAME EMAIL To NAME NAME EMAIL NAME NAME CHAR NAME EMAIL NAME van der NAME EMAIL Subject NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NUM and NAME SI
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This workshop clearly falls within the scope of NAME and my initial reaction to your email is very positive
To move forwards we need more information
CHAR We will need the names of the guest editors to be appointed preferably NUM
CHAR We need a draft schedule to publication so that we can identify the best issue to allocate to you
I assume that you will select authors at or around the time of the workshop
You then need to give them time to produce the full paper send it out to referees allow revisions final review and accept
This looks to me like th quarter NUM or st quarter NUM
CHAR A single issue of NAME will accommodate NUM or NUM papers
To accommodate more we would have to make it a double issue
How many papers do you anticipate accepting
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I ve been asked to followup some previous emails copied below
In brief NAME NUM and NAME NAME NAME NUM workshops are seeking a journal special issue
The relevant NAME is attached
In essence we d like to repeat the successful previous NAME practice selected papers for a journal SI
Last time it was with NAME and this time we d like a more speech related one our first preference being NAME
A key factor is publication date this should be as soon after NAME date NAME NUM as possible
What are your thoughts
I ve attached below some history emails
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I think they are all wrongly parsed
But perhaps the bad tokenization was interacting because I think it s not as frequent as it was in the other file I was looking at
to do the semantics right for these I d need to distinguish the subordinating conjunction case from the normal preposition case they ideally need different types of tag entry because subordinating conjunctions are handletaking
I can do this anyway since simplex prepositions are a closed class so it s not a problem it s just that I was looking at this NAME it seemed an interesting case but then discovered there seemed to be errors
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Re interpolation
OK the problem is this
I ve already got log CHAR CHAR and log CHAR CHAR because I m calculating probabilities in log space to avoid underflow
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NAME is that normal interpolation requires addition which does nt have an equivalent in the log space
Thus the only thing I can think of is to scale and convert back to normal probs but this still might cause problems with under overflow if the probabilities are markedly different
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I m not sure but I suspect it would be significantly more difficult in the log space since we CHAR trying to find a components of a log addition
log CHAR CHAR CHAR CHAR CHAR CHAR CHAR in terms of log CHAR and Log CHAR maybe sticky
Will check with the other experts here SMILEY no one around now
Do you not want to convert them back and forth
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How would you interpolate logprobs
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in log probs
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It was well understood that short courses such as the Diploma were a great attraction to sportsmen wanting to stay on for a further year in order to get their NAME
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NAME
Your NAME seminar
Hi NAME
The seminar starts at noon
The audience is typically a good mixture of NAME NAME NAME people
The usual format is a NUM hour slot with NUM mins or so of presentation and the rest taken up with questions discussion
We usually then retire to lunch in a nearby cafe
Will you be able to spend some time with us in the afternoon
I m sure there are a number of people here who would welcome the opportunity to share ideas
Cheers
NAME
ps
Directions on how to get here can be found on the NAME web site WEBSITE
email
Hi NAME
One of the guys who sent me some email to use just sent me the following
I ve been thinking always a dangerous thing Since emails are technically copyrighted by their authors can I legally give you permission to incorporate this data
Do I have the right to give you this permission
Since the anonymiser significantly modifies the email does this change the copyright status
Might just be worth you checking into some of these things before either of us becomes technically or actually liable
Regards
NAME
What do you think is the best form of reply to this sort of thing
Cheers
NAME
NAME NAME
NAME NAME today Monday rd March at NAME NAME NAME
The speaker this week is NAME NAME NAME
Title of talk NAME processing in the insect nervous system
All very welcome to attend
Re Examination of NAME NAME
I do nt believe the degree committee has received such a letter yet we had a meeting this afternoon and it was nt mentioned but I think the relevant Board meeting happened quite recently
I will try and find out what s actually been minuted we will probably have to do something about it eventually
NAME
paper NUM hold on
NAME
paper NUM has probably been misrouted
we are dealing with the problem
please do nt do it quite yet
thanks for your patience
pgm
Cafe in the NAME
I m meeting with the manager of the cafe tomorrow morning to discuss ways of improving their service
Some feedback from the customers would be helpful so comments please
NAME
NAME NAME NAME NAME
Hi
Does anyone know how to obtain a copy of NAME NAME NAME
I tried to contact UCREL a couple of times regarding this but my attempts were unsuccessful
I really appreciate any information about whom to contact with or where to ask for a copy of the NAME
Thanks NAME Hongming Graduate Student Computer Sciences The University of NAME at NAME NAME
NAME NAME
Dear Speaker
Thank you for agreeing to present a seminar at NAME
I would like to start advertising the seminar programme for spring soon
Could you therefore please let me have the final title and abstract for your talk
With thanks in advance
NAME NAME
Re NAME NAME NAME
NAME
I sent this to you for information
I did not expect you to do anything
However it is an advance warning that we may come under pressure to have externals for all thesis examining
NAME
I ve got the letter from NAME Friday to the Review Board wrt NAME s complaint which I have nt seen
I propose to do nothing about this on the following basis
NUM The letter is not to us and does nt ask us to do anything
NUM NAME s dissertation was read by the ext
examiner and his oral was attended by him too
This is our standard practice wrt borderline candidates
NUM The ext
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NUM Having the ext
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I have placed a very large stack of new applications in NAME s pigeonhole
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It would be good to make some decisions about those who have incomplete applications or too low NAME scores those left in the drawer as soon as possible
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I expect another NUM weeks worth of applications are yet to arrive
Thanks NAME
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belated Thank you
Dear NAME and NAME
Just a very late email to thank you for your wonderful hospitality
We all had a great time staying with you
Now it s time you guys came over to NAME NAME
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Hi NAME
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I now realise that the normal should actually be a vegetarian as well
Is it possible to change it
Thanks
NAME NAME
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Dear list members
Is anyone aware of any other free available sentenciser programs ie programs that split a text into sentences than those mentioned at WEBSITE in sentencisers for German and French but also for other languages
We ll integrate the answers in the above mentioned web page
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NAME and Vision seminar series this morning
Please let me know if you want to be added to the patternrecognition mailing list or if you want your name removed
The NAME NUM NAME NAME and Vision seminar series
Speaker Dr NAME NAME University of NAME NAME Attention and NAME Image Features Venue NAME NUM NAME Friday NUM May NUM NAME NUM NAME NUM PM
All welcome
See web site at WEBSITE details and abstract
Re Special issue
NAME NAME
Merging the status reports from NAME and NAME I get the summary list below
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CHAR NUM enough material for a single issue ready by deadline of st week of NAME ie papers in cat NUM and NUM below
CHAR NUM enough material for a double issue ready by deadline of st week of NAME
CHAR NUM enough material for a single issue ready by st week of NAME ie papers in cat NUM and NUM below a second single issue ready by st week of April
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Do you agree with this assesment
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The risk with this is that we need to have high confidence that the papers in sections NUM and NUM will come back in time and be accepted
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NAME NUM NAME NAME NUM NAME NAME NUM NAME
NUM NAME but awaiting final minor revisions
NAME NUM NAME NAME NUM NAME NAME NUM NAME
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NUM Waiting for Revised Paper
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Re NAME I need texts in NAME Indonesian etc in electronic form
NAME NAME wrote
Dear colleagues could you be so kind as to send me some Web sites with the texts in more seldom languages
Do you know any email address in NAME to ask for the NAME text in some exotic language like NAME NAME Turkish NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME Swahili NAME Indonesian or NAME etc etc in the electronic form
How is it possible to get it
Looking forward to hearing from you to EMAIL Remain yours most cordially NAME NAME
The NAME is probably not the most likely place to look for NAME
Most NAME translation has been done by Protestant organizations at least since the Reformation
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NAME WEBSITE languages but their translations are not in general accessible online
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We ve had very good luck using that technique to unearth all kinds of texts in a variety of languages
Of course you ll have a language NAME problem if you do nt know the language you re searching for
Be aware that some of the online translations are older versionnewer translations are likely to be copyrighted and not available on the web
Some day
Also we occasionally have found translations which are distributed as NAME files from which NUM cannot extract the text Persian Farsi is NUM example
Of course one can extract text from many NAME files I just mean that some NAME files are essentially images of the page
And text extracted from ordinary NAME files is often in what amounts to an unknown encoding
NAME NAME ORG EMAIL
NAME Claim Forms
These changed a while ago but some people are still using older versions and I think I may have omitted to inform people
Part NUM of the form also now requires the signature of the NAME NAME holder before it is authorised by the Head of Department
NAME reception and myself all have copies of the amended form
NAME
Re Trip to NAME
Thanks NAME
Looking forward to seeing you
CHAR
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NAME
Re Project workplan
Hi
The workplan spec quotes resources of the order of MHz processor MByte NAME NUM NAME disc space MByte scratch disc
I figured out I would go ahead with the C MERGERS ACQUISITIONS topic code but did nt know where to find the relevant files in the huge corpus as the files had WEBSITE these did contain some code info
I am a bit lost about which zipped file CHAR would be relevant to my topiccode
However NAME NAME NAME s report of last year I figured out that he stored each such zipped file in the local scratch and further worked with Each days unzipped NAME files
So I guess a further NAME of scratch disk space would suffice ie total of abt NAME
Please let me know if I am on the right lines
Many Thanks NAME NAME
From NAME NAME EMAIL To NAME NAME EMAIL Subject Re NAME workplan Date NAME NUM Mar NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM
WEBSITE look at the workplan spec and note statements about standard alloc of filespace
Figure out size of relevant section of NAME count word types ansd estimate size of indexes
Use NAME NAME to send music and NAME to your friends WEBSITE
Re NAME Introduction
NAME
NAME did nt appear to be cc NAME on this email
Good stuff below
Naturally the text below would be broken up into different part of this web site or least divided into headings
NAME
Definitely mention which markets that ilexir talks to
NAME which currently plays a critical role in the information extraction which has proven vital to the success of the NAME market which rapidly escalating in the importance in the knowledgebased economy
NAME of the Product suggest easy on the consultancy
Naturally there will be implementation best practice assessment etc which we know will be the cash cow in the short term etc Never mention costs daily rates should only be discounted under extreme conditions and never mentioned up front
Simple Example possibly linked to a NAME NAME
Detailed Textual Analysis
Which leads to What are the advantages
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NAME I ca nt tell if NUM is good or exceptionally good
Best
NAME
NAME NAME NAME thanks for making the introduction
As promised I m sending you a bit more draft text that addresses in less technical terms what we are about and what makes the technology unique
When finished this will be part of the ilexir website
Comments very welcome
I m also including some urls pointing to the existing noncommercial licence and quick demo for researchers of the system
NAME if you think there is a potential connection collaboration here then please do get back to me best
NAME NAME
NAME in Computational Linguistics ORG University of NAME NAME NAME Ave NAME NAME NAME NAME Email EMAIL Web page WEBSITE NAME NUM NUM NAME NUM NUM
WEBSITE NAME NAME provides commercial licensing support and consultancy for the robust accurate statistical parsing NAME toolkit
The toolkit allows rapid development of advanced text management applications such as text classification summarisation mining and querying
It is uniquely capable of supporting the next generation of such systems which go beyond pure term indexing or domainspecific entity extraction
The NAME toolkit is a package of text processing modules which annotate text with linguistic information concerning the entities referred to properties predicated of these relations and relations which hold between them
For instance the following text sentencefrom the transcript of President NAME s speech at the NAME Museum Center on th October NUM is analysed into sets of entities and relations between them some of which are shown underneath Members of the NAME of both political parties and members of ORG ORG agree that NAME NAME is a threat to peace and must disarm
Entities Members of the NAME of both political parties Members the NAME both political parties political parties parties NAME NAME NAME NAME ORG ORG ORG the ORG the Council Relations the NAME agrees NAME be is a threat the Council agrees NAME be is a threat the NAME agrees NAME must disarm the Council agrees NAME must disarm The actual output of the system further decomposes and classifies these relations and there are other output formats href Termbased systems represent text documents as bags of words ie sets of characters between white spaces but will not directly recover the entities referred to in a document such as NAME NAME political parties ORG ORG or members of NAME of both political parties
Representing entities rather than terms supports more powerful and precise information management because it provides a better basis for cross indexing variants both within and across documents such as the NAME NAME Council or the ORG and thus also a better way of classifying summarising or querying document content via salient entities
The NAME system recovers noun phrases referring to entities and classifies them in a domainindependent way into names subdivided into places people organisations numbers including ranges dates etc measure phrases ounce year etc temporal expressions days weeks months directions north south etc and so forth
Relational representation of entities provides a natural and effective mechanism for crossindexing alternate descriptions of entities via subsets of relations href
Extant systems for extracting entities from text based on deterministic finitestate pattern matching rely heavily on manuallysupplied domainspecific lexical information from the outset
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A relational pattern like the NAME NAME Council agree What does the NAME NAME Council agree can be matched intelligently against document annotations yielding precise specific and small amounts of focussed information
This approach to information retrieval deals naturally with noncontiguous text sequences mapping to the same underlying entity or relation the ORG the NAME NAME Council as well as other well known problems with pure term or entity based systems such as negation the Council not agree NAME must disarm neq the Council agree NAME must disarm
The NAME toolkit achieves about NUM accuracy recovering entities and relations from arbitrary English texts without making use of domainspecific lexical information
It has been used to date to analyse about NUM million words of English
A recent paper from a refereed conference proceedings gives more details about each module of the toolkit and compares performance to related systems
NAME and performance for specific applications can be considerably improved by semiautomatic customisation on domain and or application specific text
The toolkit is fully compatible with existing NAME standards for text NAME up and can be used to leverage web sites which will conform with emerging standards for the semantic web NAME NAME href
A nonexclusive commercial licence to use the NAME toolkit which includes NUM hours support and consultancy to assist with customising and integrating the toolkit into the client s application costs pounds NUM NUM
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NAME NAME has sole rights to commercial exploitation of the toolkit and works closely with these academic groups to continuously enhance and improve the performance of the toolkit
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NAME New Year to all the list members
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The focus of this year s conference will be evolvable hardware for reliability
Reliability issues range from faultrecovery and survivable NASA DoD systems operating in extreme environments to intelligent adaptive and learning systems for protection of areas and security of communications
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The conference will maintain its singletrack forma and will include posters sessions and panel discussions
Each research group is invited to prepare a poster describing their research
A onepage abstract of the poster should be submitted following the same procedures as the paper
For further information please contact NAME NAME EH Conference Chair NASA NAME Research Center NAME NUM Mountain NAME CA NUM NAME EMAIL NAME NUM NUM NUM NAME NUM NUM NUM
IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline March NUM NUM Author notification April NUM NUM Camera ready manuscript deadline May NUM NUM Conference July NUM NUM
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Re NAME Award
Many thanks
Just NUM more request
Could you fax a signed version of the letter to me
NUM NUM NUM
Apparently they need that as well
Thanks again
NAME
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As promised NAME sabinerefps
Re Nonjunk email
Done
I ll email the site to the people who have donated so far and try and get them to sign themselves away
Should be interesting
NAME
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Looks good the page repeats so fix that and make the ref to NAME s paper a link via his home page if poss as this contains other stuff people might want to look at
I m forwarding to NAME so she can try some samples and provide a nd opinion
Maybe replace NAME by NAME as you are not doing any name sorting at the moment
When this is done I ll email teachingandresearch here and a couple of academic industry mailing lists and let s see what sort of response we get
There is also a guy in Computing Services looking at junk filtering there so I ll contact him too
NAME
NAME Group NAME NUM January NUM
This is sent to you by NAME Group
A STRATEGY FOR NAME SERVICES MASTER CLASS SERIES NAME NAME and NAME Group s Research Director NAME NAME are hosting a new series of Master NAME on Web Service Strategies throughout NAME NAME during NAME and March NUM
This Master Class will explore NUM key aspects of Web services crucial to a successful Web services strategy The Economics of Web Services Web Services and Integration Web Services and Business Process Management and a Strategy for Web Services
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Please find below this week s issue of NAME written exclusively by NAME Group Analysts
DISCOVERING A STRATEGY
Discovery whether of information by an individual or of services by an organisation is essential for the effective use of the NAME
The Web is an increasingly tangled morass of data the vast majority of which is not relevant to specific searches nevertheless search engines are regularly deceived into delivering hits that will waste the time of any searcher
This is annoying for an enduser but potentially very expensive for a business which will lose productive employee time to sifting through search results
Ensuring the filtering of information in a dependable manner is therefore a real business opportunity at both the individual and corporate levels and at present the dominant force in this space is NAME
THE BIG NAME NAME has rapidly risen as a force to be reckoned with in the search field due to the strength of its algorithms and rapid brand creation but it is now also positioning itself as a potential rival to the established portal businesses such as NAME NAME and NAME s NAME NAME
These sites have made considerable use of NAME s leading search technology which is increasingly placing them in potentially awkward positions
On the NUM hand NAME searches are regularly driving new visitors to their sites and indeed NAME
has been utilising NAME search technology since NUM
On the other NAME is adding functionality and features such as news and shopping capabilities that undermine some of the core businesses involved in these sites and its influence is constantly growing
As part of its response to this threat NAME
has recently acquired NAME a search company based on technology that failed to compete with NAME
No announcement has yet been made that NAME will replace the use of NAME at NAME but this is clearly only a matter of timing
On the face of things this seems an uncertain strategy as the NAME search technology is perceived as being inferior to that of NAME
However NAME
has clearly recognised that in order to protect its longterm interests it must avoid any dependence on thirdparty search technology particularly when this is provided by an increasingly competitive business
Much of the real value in the longterm discovery market will be in the feebased provision of serviceoriented searches in the Web services arena which will attract corporate business
Emerging standards including the Universal Discovery Description and NAME NAME and the recently announced WSPolicy will combine to simplify the process of providing and acquiring business services online
However these initiatives will not initially serve the needs of many smaller companies which will lack the developmental resources required to utilise them this leaves a vast discovery market that the leading brand portals will be able to enter as providers of service
NAME GROUP OPINION The search industry has consolidated very rapidly in recent years and NAME is the clear winner at the individual user level
If the portals are to succeed in preventing their core businesses from being leeched away by the expansion of NAME into new territories they must begin to make more decisive moves to position themselves as credible service providers in the discovery space if this is to be done successfully it will require investments in both technology and brand creation
The portals must position themselves as discovery service providers now which will require investments in search technology such as that made by NAME or they may find that NAME will dominate that market as well
MAKING DATA QUALITY COUNT
It does nt matter how efficiently a company s NAME or NAME solutions are able to group and segment customers and their data to support the latest marketing campaign or promotional mail shot
If the source data itself is of a poor quality then the information extracted may already have been compromised
When you also consider the high levels of project failure reported within customer facing IT sectors it should be seen as a fundamental issue to ensure that data quality and accuracy is made a prime consideration
THE BIG NAME Many enterprise level organisations keep commercial information about their customers and the products and services that they provide across a number of data stores
Sometimes this may cause an inability to correctly identify customers or alternatively to identify the same customers more than once
All of which can cause important customers to receive incorrectly addressed duplicate or inappropriate information
The results being possible lost sales opportunities money wasted on capturing and maintaining useless or duplicate records and probably most importantly from a corporate perspective presenting an image to the outside world of inefficiency
There are also other issues to be considered perhaps fraud prevention may be an important area especially to those delivering services in the financial sectors or the prevention of money laundering could be a key issue
In each case the quality of the source data is important and lack of data quality can lead to undesirable activities being hidden
Holding and maintaining records on a database whether customer product or other record types has a measurable cost both in terms of storage maintenance and support activities
Therefore the value that can be derived from deploying a good quality data cleansing tool can be measured in a number of ways including reduced staff costs in the customer support and systems maintenance areas reduced mailing costs by ensuring that offers made are correctly targeted and individual customer duplications are removed and increased sales revenue through having the ability to accurately identify crossselling and upselling opportunities
NAME GROUP NAME Very few vendors working in the mainstream NAME NAME and NAME arenas would argue against the fact that data quality or lack thereof is one of the main issues when attempting to deliver effective business solutions
Our view would be that there are at least NUM major areas of concern to be considered when looking at improving data quality within an organisation
Firstly there is the initial issue of data cleansing which often in the past has focused on oneshot attempts to clean up customer and associated data with a specific goal in mind
Secondly and an issue for any organisation that is serious about the quality of data that it continues to maintain there is the question of how to permanently maintain data integrity once the initial cleansing exercise has been completed
When selecting a solution to imbed or run alongside mainstream infrastructure systems we would recommend that the selected system should be capable of providing both batch and realtime cleansing facilities especially in environments where data change is dynamic and especially where customer contact is made on the basis of the organisations in depth knowledge of the customer
SPENDING BEFORE INFORMATION
Despite figures that show that only NUM in NUM members of the public are accessing Government Web sites etail Web sites would appear to be faring rather better
As is usually the case the trend has been set in the US with customer sales reaching just under US NUM billion in NUM but it appears that the NAME is now following NAME and is in serious catch up mode with online shopping growing NUM times faster in the NAME than in the US at present
Although consumers still have concerns over the security of etail sites there are advantages to shopping online and it would appear that these advantages are at last making a breakthrough
THE BIG NAME The Government has recently vowed to dedicate more funds to increasing the number of people who access its services online
However it appears that etailers hardly have to try
The interactive ORG NAME has found that NUM million NAME shoppers bought online in November NUM spending NUM billion pounds
This figure is expected to rise to more than NUM in the next few months according to a NAME poll carried out on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry NAME
The NUM billion pound figure for November is the biggest ever amount spent online in the NAME and represents a NUM rise on October s figures and a spectacular NUM rise on the same period for the previous year
The benefits of buying online include time and monetary savings home delivery of goods and better consumer rights
These benefits have however always been available and do not explain the huge rise in etail sales
NAME has been improved which may have helped to allay some people s concerns although a survey carried out by NAME NAME found that around NUM of its respondents still felt uncomfortable giving out their credit card information online and similar percentages were worried about the security of online financial transactions and online privacy in general
The rise in broadband takeup is also thought to be partly responsible for the rise in etail sales with its ability to make browsing and accessing etail sites even faster
etailers in the NAME have been found to be better at converting browsers into customers
NielsenNet Ratings found that of the NUM large developed economies they surveyed the NAME converted the most browsers into paying customers
Other research by NAME also revealed that more people would be prepared to shop online if there were better guarantees about issues such as security and the quality of merchandise
The NAME Government is helping to promote online buying by for example publishing examples of people who have benefited by making purchases online and generally promoting the online message
NAME GROUP NAME Ease of use issues are important where both Government and etail Web sites are concerned but at the end of the day shopping ie spending money on things you want or need especially from the comfort of your own home is far more attractive than finding out information mostly concerning the payment of bills or mundane issues such as rubbish collection
It may also be a case of preference and tradition
People often wish to hear a real person tell them local government type information or to deal with a complaint but are quite happy to shop alone
NAME etail sites are adept at attracting browsers and enticing them to part with their cash and can be secure in the knowledge that improvements to security will result in increased numbers of online consumers
OUTLOOK WINTRY FOR NAME S IT STAFF
NUM saw IT jobs continuing to be axed by employers in the NAME
Reductions in endusers IT spending reined in the requirement for development and integration expertise from consultancies as well as causing the loss of jobs amongst inhouse IT staff
IT budgets are likely to be severely limited in NUM with forecast growth as low as NUM
THE BIG NAME Looking back only a few years many factors combined to produce a boom in NAME IT employment that will almost certainly never be repeated
The recession of the early s left businesses and the public sector with a backlog of change requirements and facing a looming deadline to do something to address the NAME issue
These circumstances saw many embark on the wholesale replacement of enterprise systems by customised redevelopment or more commonly by the procurement of package solutions both of which were readily supplied by a hungry and helpful IT industry
NAME of utilities and the rapid growth of the mobile telecommunications industry were also significant drivers of IT spending
After the millennium and the loss of confidence in dotanything there has seemed an uncertainty about how to deploy IT budget to best advantage
The Government s determined spending is a sole exception perhaps unfettered by such considerations
Organisations current IT spending plans reveal the priorities for the near future to be asset protection and consolidation
Such investment as there is will be aimed towards security NAME to derive value from existing data content management with the same objective or application integration to enhance value from legacy systems and other existing software
Like an increasing proportion of business requirements these will be addressed with maximum use of packaged solutions in order to hasten implementation and Return On NAME NAME
NAME has proved attractive to many companies enabling them to reduce staff numbers and stabilise or reduce spending on IT
The service provider to whom inhouse IT staff have been transferred use the human resources flexibly according to which of its customers need bodies from the pool of expertise achieving more efficient and dynamic deployment of staff
Overall the number of IT resources required is reduced
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Natural Language Service Composition
The pervasive computing environment of the future will provide a wide variety of services within the network
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Re emails
At the moment I am taking nonspam emails on a personaluse only basis
If I get to the point where distributing the corpus for wider use is a viable option I will need to go back to the people I got the emails from and get specific permission
My current quite underdeveloped thoughts on anonymising are as follows
replace person names in body text and subject field with some form of Proper Name tag
remove email addresses from body text and subject field perhaps replaced with an Email Add tag containing the domain if nonsensitive
remove postal addresses from body text and subject field again may be replaced with a Postal Address tag
probably ignore From and To field information although could retain nonsensitive domain data
It is likely that any classificationbased spam filter would be used in conjunction with a black white list technique so From and To information would be incorporated into that rather than the text classification side
NAME
what is your policy procedure for anonymising nonspam emails
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Re rasp subcat lexicon
There are NUM verbs in NAME so it wld be interesting to know how well these map to the frequency ranking from NAME maybe we shld use Comlex as our list of verbs to build entries for
Yes that would also enable me to use consistent method for lexicon building filtering
We may want to omit some of the low frequency Comlex verbs though I made some calculations
There re now NUM new files in usr groups dict subcat rasplexicon
NUM incomlex
which contains NAME frequencies for the NUM Comlex verbs NUM verbs occur more than NUM times NUM verbs occur less than NUM times
NUM notcomlex
which contains frequencies for the NUM NUM nonComlex verbs in NAME NUM verbs occur more than NUM times most are NAME spellings or noise from the tagger parser NUM NUM verbs occur less than NUM times
There are another NUM which occur btwn NUM times and NUM which occur NUM times how do we know that NUM is the correct cutoff
Maybe we shld be thinking more in terms of NUM egs verb so that we can allow for parse failures etc
Yes I meant NUM occurrences after parsing ie after failures
The above freqs were calculated from parsed data
To end up with NUM we d need some NUM egs verb as input to parsing
That s really the minimum
The accuracy of both subcat acquisition and clustering drops sharply if we use less than NUM parsed sentences not sure about wsd sel
prefs but I d imagine it s the same
Generally of course the more data the better
In my recent experiments I got best subcat and clustering results with my biggest dataset NUM egs per verb
For the really frequent verbs should we use all the data we have in NAME or do we set some upper bound
Perhaps this would be a sensible way to proceed
Use some correlation of the NAME ranking and comlex to choose k verbs that we shld do ie add noncomlex verbs that occur more than NUM times in NAME
Get all the relevant sentences from the NAME and re parse them and extract patternsets
Get more sentences for those verbs underrepresented in NAME NUM egs by creating queries to NAME designed to find pdf ps documents containing them feed these sentences through pdftotext pstoascii some special preprocessing and then rasp
I think I can set up the pipeline to parse and extract patternsets but it wld be good to check manually with NAME that we ll find enough relevant sentences this way for a small sample of underrepresented candidates
Proceed as before
Any thoughts
This sounds good
I can do the manual checking for NUM frequency ranges of samples of underrepresented verbs eg by next week
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An open position for a Ph NAME studentship is available at NAME in the framework of the NAME project WEBSITE The NAME project is a multi million pound project for research on the future of knowledge management funded by NAME
NAME will extend knowledge management technologies to exploit the potential of the semantic web covering the use of knowledge over its entire lifecycle from acquisition to maintenance and deletion
Partners involved in this project are the University of NAME NAME NAME NAME and Open University
The proposed student activity will concern methodologies for Adaptive Information Extraction from text for the Semantic Web
NAME s NAME group is one of the internationally leading groups for research on Information Extraction
The thesis work will focus on one of the following areas at the intersection with Information Extraction NAME NAME and Semantic Web
Integration of Information Retrieval and Information Extraction for the Semantic Web for document NAME and retrieval
see the NAME system WEBSITE
NAME or NAME NAME methods for Information Extraction from the Web see NAME System WEBSITE
Web based service discovery and integration
We invite applications from people with an education in computer science or related fields with at least a NUM NUM degree
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We look for a highly motivated person to enter a team involved in a challenging research project
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Re NAME
Re hotels are the Intercontinental or NAME or NAME NAME NAME on the list you are seeing NAME s travel policy is to stay in hotels with negotiated rates within allowance limits the above NUM are what I see on that list right now
Re travel dates I assume you are aiming for the coreference workshop on th
I would want to attend this but I also was thinking of the th NAME they wo nt allow me to register for both so I ll have to choose but maybe will need to travel a day earlier
To NAME CHAR NAME NAME EMAIL Subject NAME
I registered and booked a flight out NUM NUM and back NUM NUM with NAME
getting in aroun pm on Sunday
There are various NUM hotels downtown for NAME night via Expedia wld you like me to book us a couple of rooms in one
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NAME NAME NAME intensive courses May NUM
thnd May inclusive How to use corpora in language work NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME
th th May inclusive HOW TO NAME CORPORA IN LANGUAGE WORK
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Reserve a place as soon as possible
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Hey CHAR
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Have you now finished at NAME
No I ve got a month left to finish off my masters thesis
It s on spam email filtering
Most importantly what are you doing next
Well I m interested in doing a PhD actually but I want to take next year off from studying to do some more nonintellectual things
I m thinking of going to NAME to work with NAME for a few months toward the end of the year
I think I might go back home for the start of the year and try to get a job
are you still playing footie
I played for my college first team this season alongside some pretty good players NUM guy played in the NAME youth team for a few years another played at the NAME NAME youth team and another played semipro before coming to NAME
Even though we were theoretically a good team the spirit was actually not that great and we ended up coming rd or th I m not sure which in our division which was admittedly the top out of NUM divisions
Anyway I ve had some trouble with my ankle recently which has been a real pain
I really need a new one guess I ll have to wait until I get to heaven
NAME to hear about your placement in NAME I ve heard it s one of the most beautiful places in the world should be seriously nice
Are you doing anything interesting over the NAME
I m going on about NUM holidays
Nowhere very exotic but I ll see lots of friends and family which will be great
NAME I m getting back to work
Take it easy NAME SMILEY
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Re Review EVOLANG NUM
It is my understanding that the second review by an impartial reviewer was also negative
At NUM NUM NAME NUM NUM NUM NUM NAME NAME wrote
Dear NAME
Here enclosed the mail we sent to NAME NAME editor of the volume of papers arising from the recent NAME Conference NUM to protest against an incorrect editorial choice since she chose as a reviewer the very proponent of the theory we critically examined in our submitted contribution
Our intention is to let the community know this dysfunctioning since it will become impossible to establish a debate if the criticized theorist can stop it as reviewer
Sincerely yours NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME Christian NAME
NAME As you know the article that we have submitted for the Language Evolution volume belongs to a set of articles that refute point by point NAME NAME s theory that Neanderthal man did not have the anatomical prerequisites for producing the full range of human speech
We received the NUM reviews of our paper and we told you that we felt it absolutely shocking that NUM of them had been done by PhD s
We proposed in consequence that at least a third reviewer should be solicited
Your answer was negative indicating I know from personal experience that one can often feel extremely angry when receiving rather negative reports Of course we are perfectly aware that it is not pleasant to have a submitted paper discarded but that is not the question each of us has already published a large number of papers in his life and knows what a review process is
In your answer you add NAME I submitted a paper to Lingua which argued against the work on language evolution by XXX
When the reports arrived it was clear that he was NUM of the referees This is by no means an isolated experience for me in my experience both with the NAME NAME of which I am an editor and in my own research it is
normal for NUM of the reviewers to be the person whose work is called into question
We do not think that this procedure is normal particularly if there are only NUM reviewers and there is a serious problem with the present review process
Indeed the main opponent has been chosen as reviewer which is definitely not correct the more so since he used a number of arguments that clearly escape the scientific debate eg fraud accusation which is absolutely unacceptable and that we will certainly not accept and let propagate as such and a curious citation about NAME NAME and NAME NAME which has obviously nothing to do in a review process
Hence we are in a situation in which since the beginning it is obvious that NUM reviewer over NUM will fight against this paper by any means even arguable NUM and certainly refuse it
This is definitely unacceptable
We feel that you and Ph NAME are unable to take the measure of a controversy which is fair and needs to be editorially processed with a debate
We will let the community and first the Programme Committee of NAME NUM and the editors of Journals in the field of Phonetics and NAME NAME know about this review process and make their own judgment
We hope that it will help improve further debates happen in a sounder way in the future
Sincerely yours NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME Christian NAME
NAME Surprisingly the NUM reviewers of our abstract to the NAME conference were quite positive about our work as you can see
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on the EVOLUTION of LANGUAGE NAME March NUM NUM
Dear Colleague
Thank you for submitting an abstract to this conference
I am pleased to tell you that the abstract submitted under the firstauthor name below has been accepted as the basis for a talk for the conference
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Meanwhile I include beneath the dashed line our referees comments on your abstract
Best wishes NAME NAME
Title of Paper The size of the pharynx An irrelevant parameter for speech emergence and acquisition
Since NAME NAME postulated in NUM the theory that NAME were a speechless species the potential speech capability of NAME has been a debated question
These authors claimed that the development of a low laryngeal position was a necessary condition for the realization of a sufficient number of vocalic contrasts since the potential vowel space was enlarged due to an enlarged pharyngeal cavity
Like newborn infants NAME did not possess this anatomical basis of speech and therefore could not speak
In this study we refute the NAME arguments developed by NAME NAME
We quantify the vocal tract geometry by a NAME NAME Index corresponding to the length ratio of the pharyngeal cavity to the oral cavity
Using a new anthropomorphic articulatory model controlled by lips jaw and tongue parameters we introduce variations of the NAME to approximate a vocal tract of a newborn infant a child a female adult and a male adult
We generate the potential maximum acoustic vowel space with NUM NUM vowel items corresponding to these NAME NAME Index variations and we compare the results in the acoustic spaces of the first NUM formants with well known data of phonemes of the world s languages
Our simulations show that the Maximal Vowel Space of a given vocal tract does not depend on the NAME NAME Index gestures of the tongue body lips and jaw allow compensation for differences in the ratio between the dimensions of the oral cavity and pharynx
We infer that the vowel space of NAME with high or low larynx was no smaller than that of a modern human and that they could produce all the vowels of the world s languages
Our study is strictly limited to the morphological and acoustic aspects of the vocal tract and we cannot therefore offer any definitive answer to the question of whether NAME spoke or not
However we do feel safe in claiming that NAME were not morphologically handicapped for speech
A low larynx and large pharynx cannot be considered to be the anatomical prerequisites for producing the full range of human speech
If NAME could not talk it is unlikely to have been for the articulatory acoustic reasons advocated by NAME NAME
NAME were no more vocally handicapped than children at birth are
The brain is entirely capable of controlling a vocal instrument with a somewhat longer or shorter pharynx these differences do not actually change the capacity for maximally contrasting vowels
There is therefore no reason to believe that the lowering of the larynx and a concomitant increase in pharynx size are necessary evolutionary preadaptations for speech
Referee NUM
Definitely accept
Convincing attempt to deal with a previously proposed aspect of the theory of speech evolution by deducing corollaries from emprical NAME analysis
Referee NUM
Definitely accept
This paper is among the first to challenge the well known hypothesis of NAME and his colleagues concerning the role of the lowered larynx in expanding the potential vowel space of NAME sapiens a hypothesis that has largely gone unchallenged despite sceptical murmurs from the wings for nearly NUM years
The argument of the paper may not be without its difficulties in so far as it rests on a model of vowel production by a modern vocal tract
Moreover if NAME s hypothesis is indeed false we are left without a plausible account of why the larynx lowered and as NAME observed increased the probability of death by choking
Nonetheless the author s thesis is clearly argued and will doubtless stimulate much valuable discussion at the conference
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Re NAME bio for NAME proposal NAME NAME
I asked NAME for date of phd number of pubs etc and will sedn NAME an edited dabio CHAR NAME NAME School of NAME University of NAME NUM NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME Kingdom
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Restrictions on incoming NAME to machines in the Lab NAME and NAME
Executive Summary NAME access to nearly all NAME machines in the Lab will soon cease to permit ssh NAME and password based
This only effects people logging into NAME Lab machines from outside the Lab
If you cannot connect please try connecting to WEBSITE and seek help from EMAIL
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Currently most machines in the Lab allow access using ssh protocols NAME and NAME using password or publickey based authentication
V and password access are security concerns protocol problems and keyboard sniffers respectively so WEBSITE and WEBSITE already has the restrictions
sshrelay will not allow ssh NAME connections but will allow password based authentication
As such if you try to login and there is a problem try sshrelay NUM to check whether it is related to the changes
You should be able to use the ssh or slogin command to connect from the relay machines to your desired machine
Feel free to use the relay machines as a transition aid but note that they will not allow such access indefinitely so ensure that your ssh client can use publickey based NAME access
If your remote ssh client had been using ssh NAME to connect to Lab machines in the past the machine may only have the ssh NAME public key of the Lab machine so when using ssh V it may complain that the key is unknown
If so look for the host s fingerprint on the web page WEBSITE sshrelay is NUM NUM NAME ad NAME NUM NAME c NAME df fd NUM NAME NAME NUM NUM a
Better still would be to jot down the fingerprint in advance
With the fingerprint try connecting to the host again directly and when asked whether to continue check the fingerprint and continue if it is correct
Otherwise contact sysadmin
If your client does nt support ssh NAME or publickey try upgrading to a later version
NAME users can use NAME and NAME users can use PuTTY
Other packages which are layered on ssh scp cvs rsync pscp NAME etc will be similarly effected
If you do nt have a public key you will need to generate NUM and arrange that the private part is available on the client outside the Lab machine and that the public part is registered in ssh authorizedkeys in your Lab filespace
See WEBSITE key register it for incoming calls and converting it to a suitable form for the Windows ssh agent pageant
Use a good pass phrase to encrypt the key and do NOT use any existing password
Anyone setting things up in advance can test that things are working by WEBSITE which already has the restrictions in force
Re NAME parses
NAME
I m looking at the NAME parses for q and q
I ve noticed that the tags on constructions like NUM NUM are now showing as NAME and NUM NAME whereas in NAME the tag on the amount would be NAME
Other money constructions do show up with the NAME tag in NAME usually when it includes a NAME like million etc
Is this a function of the tagger or is this by design
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Re NAME NAME THIS THURSDAY
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NAME I d love to play but I ll be in NAME
I m going back up to visit for a couple of days
NAME it goes well I m sure you ll be in the zone
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Re NAME corpses
NAME RCV is indeed hierarchical and documents can have multiple labels including both leaves and nonleaves
The assignment of ancestors of leaves is somewhat inconsistent however and also varies among the NUM subhierarchies
The draft NAME paper describes that and I can send a copy if you do nt have it
NAME
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I remind you that there is a NAME today Thursday NUM NUM at pm in the NAME NAME Theatre
NAME The Evolution of warning signals
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Everyone is most welcome to attend
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Re named entity task
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NAME NUM
Is this the second NAME NAME paper I should be reading
Also are there any other papers resources you recommend I look at
Thanks
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Re Anonymised Email
Leader is a surname a new rule NAME NAME CHAR name
Hmmm difficult one
The context is a bit general and in my current corpus I would lose about NUM nonnames to anonymise about NUM names
However taking the into account might be a partial solution I ll run some tests to isolate contexts in which NAME NAME patterns occur
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Re how to talk about a distinction in text mining
NAME
As far as can remember dereferencing is the linguistic term for linking pronouns CHAR YOU and other references NAME THAT to persons and objects and subsequently loaned by IT for variables Implicit vs explicit then seems a natural way to make the distinction you re after
Quite a mouthful though SMILEY
NAME The border between the NUM depends on the NAME NAME at the low end only equation type dereferencing NAME NAME lives in NAME NAME at the high end also sophisticated dereferencing of pronouns over sentence boundaries
Even simple cases can throw you People having more than NUM residence like president NAME refugees who are often indicated by their country of origin even when actually living in the NAME NAME NAME from NAME
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Re project progress
Dear sir
I currently have some of my code on WEBSITE folder project
I intend to copy all my code onto my directory in the lab Nfs elmere homes ma unixhome project code tommorrow morning having problems in NAME from home today
I am still working on my baseline and will need a couple of more days to get it fully working
I will bring along my report of project status for the meeting tommorrow
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Let s meet as normal on NAME of this week but before then I d like to review your progress in more detail you will be about halfway thru by the end of this week
Please send me a pointer to a reeadable filespace with your code so far and a very brief description of where you are and what you need to do if possible wrt your orig
workplan
In general I d hope you d now have a baseline system working an outline structure for the dissertation and be planning to write parts of this as you continue with experiments extending on the baseline system
thanks NAME
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I would like to make you aware of the events that I am organising at NAME NAME in May they are intended for anyone who is not yet expert at working with text corpora but would like to be perhaps you could pass the information around colleagues and senior students
thnd May and thth May NUM
How to use corpora in language work
The first course will have as visiting topic leaders NAME NAME and NAME NAME the second which focuses more on multilingual work will have NAME NAME and NAME NAME
We keep our numbers down so that the atmosphere is like an informal house party participants find it easy to talk with our distinguished guests
There are details on the NAME website WEBSITE and I am happy to attend personally to any queries from members
My email address is EMAIL please write directly to me rather than fill in the forms on the website
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web page WEBSITE
Re NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME project selection
Of course I will do this when it s final
Re matrix NUM
NAME NAME the heart bleeds
On Mon NUM May NUM NAME NAME wrote
I think we concluded that
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Girls and NAME
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I can do any day apart from Thurs at the moment but I need to know NAME I ve got some other things to book
CHAR
Re campfest
Boys
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CHAR
Re NAME Is the NAME a waste of time
Whilst trying to observe and not react for a while so as to cut my email writing time NUM cannot but reply to this string with an unequivocal no NAME is definitely not a waste of time but a cornerstone of corpus linguistics
It is obvious that for the small corpus designer NUM million or less tokens markup is a considerable investment in time
However if one holds as I do that a corpus is not a simple mass of data but a carefully compiled selection of texts then we need a means to treat them as texts to store both their general features and their particularities
This the NAME does
In my own work in the field of English for Academic Purposes I tend not to use the corpus header but a standard individual header so as to stock all the bibliographic information and socilinguistic parameters associated with the text
The depth of markup depends on my needs and time for an individual text
In this way I can move with ease from a fully annotated single text to a more lightly marked up corpus
This is possible because of the encoding possibilities of the NAME
Education is very much part of the answer
Easy access to vast amounts of downloadable data has meant that a number of corpus NAME neither know nor care about the niceties of corpus creation and the whys and wherefores of selecting and marking up data
Ease of access has become the main criterion potentially to the detriment of the discipline itself
Easy solutions do not necessarily answer the most pertinent questions
It is true that all this takes time but if we throw out all that is timeconsuming drudgery from corpus linguistics we may find that we have thrown out our text baby with the corpus bathwater and are only left with readymade corpora for readymade answers
Back to some time consuming markup
NAME
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NAME NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM fax NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM
email EMAIL
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Dear NAME
Yes I have some sympathy with the point you make
The thing that has attracted me to the NAME in the past though is once the effort is made to get to grips with it and it is daunting there is usually a well thought through solution contained in it for almost any problem situation you come across in encoding a corpus
With that said it is a clear theme of the posts so far that there is at the very least an advocacy issue related to the NAME in corpus linguistics which is interesting
Best
CHAR
Interesting question
There are NUM issues here
NUM Ignorance and confusion
Most people have only a vague idea what NAME is or does or what it is good for
There would need to be a effort to re educate the potential users of NAME
Does NAME do something different from NAME
Absurd question I know but that is the kind of confusion which I suspect exists
NUM Complexity
When it was introduced many people reacted against it as too complex
Now they have all adopted xml rdf etc which are much more complicated to use
So potential users perception would now be ripe for a representation of NAME
Related to both of these issues is that of the documentation available to educate people help potential users understand what NAME is does is good for
A research assistant I have recently been poring over a
couple chapters of the NAME guidelines looking for guidelines relevant examples to add some markup to our already mostly TEIconformant corpus markup scheme
Although the documentation is extensive it is inadequate
in many ways missing examples not very good at giving a larger picture to people who are nt sure if they need want the NAME at all or who just need some pointers to a few relevant sections
If the only people who can read the documentation and make use of it are information library science people who are specifically trained in that area then it s no wonder NAME others who are in the business of building corpora are not using it or promoting it
NAME NAME
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Re matrix NUM
NAME
If we do nt get this sorted out by this evening then I m going to come round and force a consensus
CHAR
Re matrix NUM
Dear colleagues
You are invited to collaborate with my Online Corpora
Further details see at WEBSITE
I look forward to hearing from you
Yours sincerely
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best NAME
Re shell
Excellent thanks NAME that seems to work
NAME
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bin csh
I ve not used the csh for decades but I guess it s similarish to sh
set dirs cat NUM perl CHAR CHAR s CHAR ext CHAR
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Re Ref NAME NAME
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I knew him for about NUM years prior to this while he was a PhD student
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NAME
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NAME NAME concordance
Does anyone else get a lot of duplicated entries when doing a concordance in NAME
Not sure if this is a bug or we are doing something wrong
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Re NAME jnls for NUM
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I think I am NAME CHAR NAME in your database
many thanks
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this is not an ad for a job at NAME University so WEBSITE which appears on the side of the ad is the wrong url
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or is that the internal one
Was it the NAME people who produced this
You were told to go through them but maybe they are running under the wrong assumption of what kinds of ads the university places
NAME
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There is a Senseval competition next summer they are both helping to organise next summer so the plan is to draw many papers from participants but leave it open to others
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NAME NAME and possibly NAME NAME want to do one on structured language models for NAME NAME etc NAME suggested this as he was worried that not enough good material would be forthcoming for one on unsupervised grammar induction
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Re NAME
Hi NAME
here are some more comments
NAME
Section NUM no full stop at end of sent with footnote NUM
NAME output is not consistent Figure NUM does nt include positions whereas in section NUM we have position numbers
Section NUM arg CHAR CHAR arg CHAR CHAR
do you really mean for one of the args to have an extra space
If they represent the same relations they should look identical
When talkiing about table NUM you should say that mu represents the mean
Section NUM footnote NUM should come after the full stop
Table NUM antecendent antecedent
Table NUM reference in text anaphora antecedent
Re results
Is nt it always the case
Cheers
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NAME NAME NAME Wednesday rd April
Dear All
NAME NAME from the NAME will present a seminar to the NAME group entitled
Solubility and proteinsolvent interfaces of monomeric proteins
DATE rd April Wednesday
TIME ampm
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and back after the talk
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ABSTRACT NAME is understood in the relationship between the sequence structure and solubility of a protein
However it is clear that the function of a protein is intimately related to its solubility namely that structural proteins are insoluble while enzymes must have a very high solubility
Our inability to predict solubility presents practical difficulties especially for NAME NAME Initiatives as up to NUM of nonmembrane proteins cannot be crystallised due to insolubility of the sample
Furthermore it seems plausible that the mechanisms responsible for the formation of insoluble amyloid fibrils are similar to those at play in the formation of the random insoluble aggregates that form in inclusion bodies
It is clear that the hydrophobic or polar content of the surface of a protein plays a key role in its solubility
Given the collective behaviour of water we hypothesise that individual surface residues may not necessarily play a decisive role in dictating its solubility but that patches of residues may well do so
To examine this we construct a score based on the average hydrophobic polar content of surface patches of atoms or residues over a set of NUM monomeric proteins
To see if the resulting distribution of scores is unusal we compare the distribution of scores for each protein with the scores from an equivalent randomised surface
We can also examine the variation of the score for each patch over homologous proteins
Here too we can compare the distribution of scores with scores generated from randomised sequences
In the first case we find that the atomic patch score have distributions with shorter tails than those generated from the randomised surfaces indicating that the surface atoms are arranging themselves so as to avoid extrema of hydrophobicity or hydrophilicity
Perhaps more interestingly in the case of examining the hydrophobic patch score as it varys over sequences we find that hydrophobic patches tend to be supressed suggesting that surface residues can evolve in a collective fashion
We argue that this confirms our initial hypothesis what its consequences are and some future research we can carry out
I hope to see many of you at the talk
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I am looking for a large hierarchical corpus of text documents for a research in the field of hierarchical classification
I would like to get your opinion about the followings
NUM NAME NAME Collection Version NUM
Is it s hierarchy deep enough to make a point when it comes to showing the dependency of classification results on the hierarchical structure of the corpus
NUM NAME Open directory project
Why are there no researchs refering to data from the NAME
NUM NAME
There are several works done on data which was gathered from ORGs science hierarchy
How can I get a copy of it
Do I need ORGs permission
How do I get it
NUM US Patents Where can I get this one
NUM Any other suggestions
Since I could not find many research works using the NAME corpus even though it looks like a good one for a comparison bassis among works in the field and several works are using ORGs science hierarchy it seems like a good idea to have both tested and put into the research
Looking Fwd to getting your comments on those thoughts
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My employers have some ideas on the kind of areas they would like me to work on but I am not sure what the process is of making this official or finding someone to supervise me
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Re Trip report
NAME
Yes I was considering the possibility of a random fluctuation but I m thinking it s more likely to be a rogue supermorphing viral infestation
I believe that it might hold the key to my very existence
What if tomorrow all my results could be perfect
Would that not be worth pulling
my hair out for
Would that not be worth
Yes anyway
I ll try to enjoy my time in NAME and not be distracted by thoughts of
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See you pon my return
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NAME Wed NUM NAME NUM NAME NAME wrote
NAME BeFos
NAME you re out of the lab and in bed
Sorry to hear of your computer misforture sounds like a case of a microsoft product functioning correct NAME
Maybe its an intrinsic anomaly in the NAME NAME building which causes random fluctuations in the programme modules which due to the inevitabil ity of choice and human emotion result in your inevitable doom NAME
NAME a bit of random matrixisation there
Yes so the cinema
Well NAME came along which I guess made the walk home less awkward but not having an armrest on either side does leave one a CHAR it restless
Also the sticky floor goodness know what those sweaty teenage rs do spoiled my enjoyment too
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Re tokeniser
What s the command line switch for using an exclusion list in the tokeniser
And is there a similar one for the tagger
The thing I showed you the other day was for the tagger NOT the tokeniser
The syntax is CHAR fn where fn the file containing the exclusions
The tokeniser is a standard flex bogstandard CHAR lexical analysergenerator program and as such would probably need to have the exclusions written into the lex file containing the lexical rules
It is nt difficult to modify the lexer I ve made quite a few modifications for my dodgy email data and the whole thing compiles into a CHAR program so you could modify it to take a list of exclusions however I do nt think flex automatically generates an exclusion list feature although I could be wrong have a look at the online documentation
I guess that s not great news but I hope you can do something with it
CHAR
Re Hierarchical Corpuses
OHSUMED is technically not a hierarchical collection of documents
It is a flat collection of documents bibliographic records to be precise that is indexed by a hierarchical vocabulary MeSH
NAME
EMAIL NUM NUM NUM NUM AM Hi NAME
You should consider OHSUMED which is a set of medical abstracts that have been manually classified using MeSH Medial Subject Headings
I have published some results on this corpus in the following paper
Hierarchical text categorization using neural networks NAME NAME NAME NAME Information Retrieval NUM NUM NUM
January NUM
Let me know if you would be interested in having a copy of it
NAME NAME
On Thursday NUM April NUM NUM NUM am NAME NAME wrote
NAME
I am looking for a large hierarchical corpus of text documents for a research in the field of hierarchical classification
I would like to get your opinion about the followings
NUM NAME NAME Collection Version NUM
Is it s hierarchy deep enough to make a point when it comes to showing the dependency of classification results on the hierarchical structure of the corpus
NUM NAME Open directory project
Why are there no researchs refering to data from the NAME
NUM NAME
There are several works done on data which was gathered from ORGs science hierarchy
How can I get a copy of it
Do I need ORGs permission
How do I get it
NUM US Patents Where can I get this one
NUM Any other suggestions
Since I could not find many research works using the NAME corpus even though it looks like a good one for a comparison bassis among works in the field and several works are using ORGs science hierarchy it seems like a good idea to have both tested and put into the research
Looking Fwd to getting your comments on those thoughts
NAME NAME NAME University
Dr NAME NAME NAME School of Informatics Department of Library and Information Studies NUM NAME NAME NAME NY NUM NAME NUM NUM ext
NUM NAME NUM NUM
NAME NAME release of NAME NAME
We are pleased to announce the NAME release of the WordNet Similarity package
This is a significant upgrade to our previous Distance packages
You can find NAME NAME including NAME at
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This package consists of NAME modules along with supporting NAME programs that implement the semantic similarity measures of NAME NUM NAME NUM NAME NUM NAME NUM NAME NAME NAME and NAME NUM
The package contains NAME modules designed as object classes with methods that take as input NUM word senses from WordNet
These methods can be embedded in any NAME program and will return the semantic similarity between the senses according to the requested measure
There are also support programs for generating information content values NAME NUM for WordNet concepts from a variety of corpora including the NAME NAME NAME NAME or any raw text provided by a user
The information content values are required by the measures of NAME NAME and NAME and could also be useful in a wide range of WordNet based applications
The package also provides a simple command line interface that returns the similarity measure of NUM given words
This is very similar to our earlier version of the Distance package
A number of switches and options have been provided to enhance the output with trace data and other information
Please download and give Similarity a try
We anxiously await your feedback and suggestions
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NAME Research Lecture Speaker NAME NAME NAME NAME SelfAware Networks and Quality of Service
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We will describe a selfaware packet network design that uses smart and ACK packets to collect and store data about network state
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Extensive experiments on several tastbeds we have implemented based on wired and adhoc wireless connectivity will be described
NAME NAME NAME NAME is the University Chair Professor and Director of the School of NAME at NAME
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my assumption is that he ll be in NAME but it s possible that NAME or NAME garet
have other ideas so I m NAME to them
NAME
Dear NAME
Could you please let me know which room NAME NAME is going to be
in when he arrives in April
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Re wow
Are you sure you could tell from that distance NAME
A fleeting glance can be quite deceptive
On NAME NUM May NUM NAME NAME wrote
An incredibly attractive girl just walked past my window
Living next to NAME NAME definitely has its advantages
just thought you might like to know that share the highs as well as the lows kinda thing
NAME NAME
NAME College NAME NUM NUM NAME Road Mob NUM NUM NAME NAME NAME Email EMAIL
Re Hierarchical Corpus NAME character sets NAME NUM
NUM NAME NAME Collection Version NUM
Is it s hierarchy deep enough to make a point when it comes to showing the dependency of classification results on the hierarchical structure of the corpus
I can send you the NAME NAME NAME NAME draft paper on NAME if you do nt have that already
Let me not list know
The NAME hierarchy is relatively shallow but there are some quite narrow categories as well as broad NUM
Also the hierarchy is well understood compared to some of the others
So I think it s quite reasonable for experiments on hierarchical categorization
NAME
NAME NUM A reminder when posting messages to DDLBETA to try and use pure NAME
NAME NUM The Third Workshop on Operational Text Classification will be held at NAME NUM on August NUM NUM
Details and NAME will be at WEBSITE
NAME for the Study of NAME Seminar this Thursday
Dear All
This week Thursday nd May at NUM pm in the NAME NAME Theatre
NAME NAME from the NAME NAME NAME will be talking on
Exploring bacterial pathogen biology through genome sequencing
NAME The talk will present data and analysis from a number of recent genome projects mainly of human pathogens
These will include NAME menigitidis NAME typhi NAME pestis and NAME leprae
Data from primary and comparative analyses will be used to illustrate the multiple genetic mechanisms that these organisms use to evolve and adapt to their specific pathogenic niches
This should be an interesting and stimulating talk on bacterial evolution
Everybody is very welcome to attend
NAME
Re NAME EnglishFrench parallel corpus
At NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NAME NAME wrote
The NAME corpus is at WEBSITE
See also the CDROM distributed by NAME NAME WEBSITE low cost for research
Description
WEBSITE
NAME output NAME weights
Another interesting discovery in the NAME parsed a NAME weight of more than NUM
Things NAME be NAME not NAME so NAME simple NAME NUM as NAME some NAME art NAME historians NAME write NAME well NAME about NAME the NAME present NAME NUM with NAME a NAME generosity NAME of NAME feeling NAME and NAME approach NAME enriching NAME to NAME contemporary NAME culture NNSMILEY NUM
NUM NUM detmod approach NAME a ATSMILEY
NUM NUM mod simple NAME so RGSMILEY
NUM NUM detmod generosity NAME a ATSMILEY
NUM NUM ncsubj enriching NAME approach NAME
NUM NUM mod art NAME write VVSMILEY
NUM NUM mod write NAME well RRSMILEY
NUM NUM conj generosity NAME approach NNSMILEY
NUM NUM xcomp be NAME simple JJSMILEY
NUM NUM ncmod write NAME about IISMILEY
NUM NUM mod approach NAME enriching VVGSMILEY
NUM NUM ncsubj write NAME historians NAME
NUM NUM ncmod simple NAME not XXSMILEY
NUM NUM ncmod of NAME generosity NAME feeling NNSMILEY
NUM NUM ncmod culture NAME contemporary JJSMILEY
NUM NUM detmod art NAME some DDSMILEY
NUM NUM ncsubj be NAME Things NAME
NUM NUM ncmod as NAME be NAME art NNSMILEY
Unfortunately I do nt have the exact sentence number for that one but it is in the first NUM sentences from writtenparsesgw
A quick search through the first NUM NUM sentences shows NUM NUM cases of a weight bigger than one out of which NUM NUM have NUM
NAME NAME
NAME Call for papers Romance corpus linguistics
nd NAME WORKSHOP ON ROMANCE CORPUS LINGUISTICS
Corpora and Historical Linguistics Investigating Language Change through Corpora and NAME
organized by the Department of Romance Languages of NAME University
NAME im NAME NAME September thth NUM
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
The nd NAME NAME on Romance Corpus Linguistics will be dedicated to the questions how the methods and techniques of modern corpus linguistics can be put to use in order to investigate diachronic developments and language change and which innovative insights may result from the application of corpus linguistic methods in the field of historical linguistics
Language change shall be considered in this context on different levels as longterm change that modifies profoundly the language CHAR involved even altering its their typologic structure processes the study of which require historical corpora of considerable extension and as medium and shortterm change that emerges already from the comparison of very few text or speaker generations and for which corpora with reduced diachronic depth are sufficient
The workshop will include the following NUM panels
Panel CHAR Corpus projects language data management and tools for analysis This panel will be open for the presentation of currently ongoing or completed corpus and database projects the main focus will be on projects with a historical perspective on long medium or shortterm language change
Panel CHAR Corpusbased diachronic studies on Romance languagues For this panel contributions on diachronically oriented research on specific issues in Romance linguistics empirically based on corpora and databases are invited
Keynote speakers
NAME L NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME
NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME
NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME da NAME NAME NAME NAME
NAME NAME NAME State University NAME NAME
A halfday paraworkshop directed by NAME Pr vost NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME and NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME will be organized within the conference where the machinereadable treatment and markup of historical texts and diachronic language data will be exemplified illustrated and discussed
Paper submissions Please submit paper proposals for either of the NUM panels by sending an abstract approx
NUM words including your name academic affiliation mail and email address
Abstracts in electronic form NAME MSWORD or NAME files sent as email attachments to EMAIL are strongly encouraged
The deadline for submission of papers is March th NUM
Papers may be read in German any Romance language and English
Confirmation of acceptance of your paper will be sent out before March th NUM
If there are more proposals than panel slots a part of the contributions will be presented during a poster session
For detailed information on the conference venue the conference program on the registration procedure and attendance fees social program travel and accomodation please have a look at the conference web page at WEBSITE registration form is available or contact the workshop s convenor
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Re Who speaks for who CHAR
Gosh you re quite right I do nt think any of us spotted that possibility
Sorry
But surely the fact that we did nt spot it shows it s not a likely reading
Personally I hardly ever use may deontically I d always use can
NAME
At NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM you wrote
As NAME surely a better form of wording could have been found
the sentence we may speak for a large body of opinion in our field because we are the past presidents of the NAME is inherently ambiguous in just the way it seems the authors strove to avoid the modal auxiliary verb may is liable to be interpreted under its deontic reading ie we have permission are authorised to speak for a large body etc rather than under its intended epistemic reading it is possible that we speak for a large body etc
It is precisely this ambiguity that makes me somewhat concerned that the letter s contents may be taken to have my support without my being consulted
NAME NAME University of NAME
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Re biologically inspired robots
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Unfortunately it came across a local minima whereby it killed everyone within the first NUM days NAME evolution
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NAME
Re order again
NAME how do you rate my new nickname for you
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Re NAME NAME NAME
NAME NAME
All s fine and NAME in the lab
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Re Multilingual scholarship Re Multilingual text categorisation
NAME NAME wrote
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Dr NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME WEBSITE
Fwd Re Thesis returned
Hi NAME NAME seems to be in a tizzy after his meeting with you
I guess the point is for him to find a project that would let him develop some skills in corpus work independent of the framework he presents his results in
Or did you really advise him not to do a thesis in NAME
NAME
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I have just come back from my interview at NAME with Doctor NAME and Doctor NAME
They agree to take me in They have asked me about what I would like to do for my summer project
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So I suggest something to do with the NAME system whose manual you have given me to have a look
However Doctor NAME suggests that the best project for me in this summer would be something that requires me to use some unix tools to do some text searching extraction so that I can familiar myself with these skills normally possessed by NAME graduates
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I still have to get a theme
The problem is I know absolutely nothing about the methodology
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Re NAME issues Can we meet for a chat
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Re NAME
NAME
So sorry to hear about the lung
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Have been terribly busy recently with balls and things
Soon
NAME
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Re natlang group
Would it be possible and correct for me to be added to the natlang unix group
yes you should also be in NAME
NAME
NAME NAME NAME Follow up on NAME NAME Comments
NUM We need the name address and if applicable company no of the legal entity at NAME
NUM NAME have asked whether they will be founder
I do nt think that this makes any difference as pre emption rights ie shares are offered to the existing shareholders before being offered to new shareholders will be waived for the shares to be granted
NUM I have been asked to redraft the wording under NUM For so long as NAME remains a shareholder in the Company for a period of up to NUM years from the date of this agreement The Company may grant NAME totalling between NUM NAME considers this to be ambiguous but I do nt see it
NUM NUM CHAR between to be changes to up to OK with me but please check
NAME has also asked that the wording be changed so that antidilution applies in the event of any issue of any shares to anybody presumably provided this falls below the pound k funding limit
NAME NAME comment it seems to me that NAME will apply if shares are sold at a price to NAME and NAME at par value which is below market value howsoever that market value is caused eg purchase of NAME or price established by new investor purchasing at a premium
I am not a tax expert
To entirely resolve any tax issues we would have to employ a full blown shareholder s agreement having taken appropriate advice
NUM days to decide whether to take up the shares is fine with me
NUM iii The level of pound k is established as funds are difficult to obtain nowadays and onerous conditions are likely to be imposed
NUM NAME has asked whether we could enter into a full shareholders agreement which could apply also to any new investor
Generally I find that any substantive investor will wish to impose their own agreement whatever
I should reiterate that the draft was created on the basis that there is a shortage of funds to pay for a complex agreement and that my instructions were on the basis that a short and straightforward version would do
This is not designed with individual shareholder s interests such as tax effectiveness in mind and is an outline for discussion
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NAME NAME CHAR NAME CHAR NUM NUM NUM NUM Principal Consultant CHAR NUM NUM NUM NUM Legal Surfing NAME CHAR NUM NUM NUM NUM NAME Street CHAR EMAIL NAME NAME NAME CHAR WEBSITE
Re Assignment document
NAME
I have been tied up for the last few days but will get you a considered response in the next few days
In principle it should be possible to tighten this clause up a bit to address your concern
When do you expect the shareholders agreement to be ready for us to look at
NAME
Thanks for your responses
I take the point about ensuring NAME is exploitable but am still uneasy over the rather vague wording
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best NAME
Re campfest
OK count me in
I might be a bit late but keep the home fires burning
CHAR
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Master s Project May NUM
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I m glad you spotted my deliberate mistake NAME
NAME
Masters it is then
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projects
have the students been given any deadline for choosing projects
The webpage seems to just say workplan by the end of term
I wonder whether it might be a good idea to give them an interim deadline for agreeing a supervisor project outline NAME otherwise we ll be inundated in week NUM If there is such a deadline already maybe NAME ought to send round a reminder
the webpage is still saying we re seeking project proposals btw which may also lead them to think there s no hurry
NAME
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I was looking at the work on the North Courtyard as I came in and thought how sad boring and municipal it looked so here s an idea
Why not have a Zen garden there very low maintenance beautiful calming appropriate for a ORG WEBSITE fundable from a Japanese source eg The NAME Garden NAME
NAME
As one whose office looks out on the NAME NAME I heartily endorse your proposal
It is a dismal place
NAME
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contextawareness of spatial interaction very similar to nlp but involves visual symbols and the web NAME the philosophy of representation
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test
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NUM Section NUM NAME and NAME forthcoming rather optimistic is nt it
Maybe it d be better to cite my NAME paper
That s got all the same results except for NAME and is already published
inproceedings Preiss NUM AUTHOR J
Preiss TITLE Choosing a NAME for NAME Resolution BOOKTITLE Proceedings of DAARC YEAR NUM PAGES
NUM Section NUM I d rather not give the optimal weights
These were nt obtained from the manual reannotation and I did nt use them in the stuff that I gave you so it d invite too much criticism from myself if not form anyone else
NUM I like your The results were NAME
NUM Section NUM statoftheart stateoftheart
NUM Section NUM other statistical parsers eg NAME Are nt you using statistical in a rather nontechnical sense
I do nt think that you can say that NAME stuff is statistical
NAME that helps thanks for writing the paper in the first place
See you tomorrow
NAME
Re rasp subcat lexicon
OK we also have the M word American NAME Corpus now speak to NAME if you ca nt find it so it wld probably make sense to pull egs from this too
NAME got back to me just now telling that we have nt got NAME yet
The NAME website WEBSITE by autumn NUM
We have got North American News Text corpus usr groups corporacds NAME but I do nt know if this is balanced enough
NAME k sentence ver if we are talking k verbs or so is not a problem but gathering finding them maybe
There are enough occurrences in NAME parsed egs for NUM out of NUM Comlex verbs usr groups dict subcat rasplexicon incomlex
I selected a number of remaining underrepresented verbs from a few freq
ranges and checked manually with NAME how many occurrences can be found in pdf ps documents
I came up with the following statistics obviously not fully accurate but gives a rough idea
NAME NAME NUM duplicate NUM NUM NUM reunite NUM NUM NUM rejoice NUM NUM NUM lighten NUM NUM
NUM misjudge NUM NUM NUM absolve NUM NUM NUM computerize NUM NUM NUM sweeten NUM NUM
NUM pacify NUM NUM NUM authenticate NUM NUM NUM amputate NUM NUM NUM resettle NUM NUM
NUM overstep NUM NUM NUM embezzle NUM NUM NUM smarten NUM NUM NUM disinherit NUM NUM
NUM overreach NUM NUM NUM reread NUM NUM NUM humanize NUM NUM NUM misquote NUM NUM
NUM inundate NUM NUM NUM mispronounce NUM NUM NUM abominate NUM NUM reinsure NUM NUM
NUM miscall NUM NUM piddle NUM NUM contemn NUM NUM declassify NUM
NUM misconduct NUM NUM underspend NUM NUM dissatisfy NUM NUM calumniate NUM
NUM disinfest NUM NUM asseveriate NUM
some spellings verbs could be NAME here and explain higher freqs
I think it would be good to either search data from internet for all the NUM underrepresented Comlex verbs in NAME ie all verbs marked with frequency less than NUM in usr groups dict subcat rasplexicon incomlex or set the NAME freq
threshold very low NUM occurrences
It might make sense to also set an upper bound on the highest freq
verbs perhaps somewhere around NUM NUM NUM NUM raw occurrences
I do nt think we need more than that and parsing will be faster when the data is not so huge
Finally about the trip to NAME
I asked NAME about the budget
She gave the following figures
NAME has a total of NAME NUM after NAME s trip NAME I has a total of NAME NUM
Can we use NAME I for travels
If so me going to NAME would exhaust NAME but leave some NUM in NAME I
Perhaps still enough for you to attend NUM or one of the conferences next year
NAME
Re Thurdays NAME speaker Dr NAME NAME
At NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NAME NAME wrote
Thursday th January Room NUM NAME Building NAME NAME
Applying Evolutionary Game Theory to NAME Mechanism Design
Dr NAME NAME NAME NAME
Full text WEBSITE
Regards
NAME
Re crimes against humanity
I do nt think it s too bad to do that NAME
But why
Is it because you have nt got enough material for NUM separate sections
NAME Wed NUM May NUM NAME NAME wrote
how bad is it to put results and discussion in the same section called results and discussion
NAME NAME NUM NAME Street NAME NAME NAME NAME NUM NUM NAME NUM NUM EMAIL
Re NAME
Hi NAME
I think it definitely makes sense for me to evaluate my thing on the NAME
Subjects should be straightforward I ll read up on what NAME did for objects and obliques
My algorithm is actually more involved than her baseline
for example it looks like the base line would NAME anything at NUM position as a subject
mine would nt if it was in a NAME or appositive
similarly the basline would probably find an object relation between every verb and NAME in NUM position
mine would nt if there was a relation with the next verb for example in he said the ball was NAME
Also her evaluation is for all NAME
My evaluation is for only NUM
So I do nt think my NUM is incompatible with her baseline of NUM
But it makes sense for me to evaluate against her as well for my thesis
the reason I have confidence in my algo is that I ve been through the mistakes my anaphora resolution algorithm makes and they tend not to be due to incorrect NAME labelling
I actually did the evaluation on the gold standard afterwards when I was writing the paper
I m not claiming that an approach so shallow can handle all NAME but I think it will do ok even on the NAME for subjects and objects
CHAR
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Do you think it would be OK to extract the plain text from NAME attachments and then get rid of the NAME information for the corpus
The alternative is to leave the NAME tags in the corpus and attempt to anonymise inplace
NAME
NAME NAME
Dear all
I m working on an NAME NAME System Can somebody point me to any system for translating NAME to NAME In NAME
Thanks a lot wassim
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You just install it and it works no tweaking rules
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I posted a plea for help with spam a while back so thought I d let you know what solution I ended up with
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I also found at least NUM bug in that it corrupted some of my existing filtering rules while producing whitelist rules from my address book
I then decided to bit the bullet and deal with the NAME problem directly by installing stunnel WEBSITE is proxy that runs on a range of client machines
It makes the NAME connection to external servers and provides a local server that provides a nonencrypted connection
That opened up a range of spam filtering possibilities
I ended up choosing POPFile WEBSITE It has a learning capability ability to write regrettably simplistic hard rules for handing mailing lists and relatively simple installation
My impression was that NAME Assassin was harder to install but I also seriously considered that one
I ve been using POPFile for about a day and have been quite impressed
It uses naive NAME classification on words and on some aspects of the header and has a nice interface for labeling training data
It operates as a proxy and can insert tags in the header and or subject lines so is compatible with any email program
There s lots of ways it could be improved on both the usability and machine learning fronts but it s not bad at all and is already making my life much easier
It only trains on those examples you tell it to and if I recall correctly the documentation encourages you to only train on examples it made a mistake on conservative training in NAME s sense
NAME actually had a paper with somewhat murky results on conservative training of naive NAME classifiers
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It would be interesting to know more about how well naive NAME does with conservative training
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Hello again
I would like to thank every person who took the time to answer my question about synonyms and the use of quantitative methods to analyze them
I received numerous helpful links and materials see below for a summary
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I forgot to translate the NUM words I am interested in Italian perfino and persino even as a focus particle
They are function words and therefore it would maybe be even be more surprising to have NUM identical forms here
From some preliminary tests however they seem very close indeed
What I am wondering about is if I use quantitative measures such as the zscore what would be a sufficient difference between NUM measures the point of delicacy or resolution to distinguish synonyms from nearsynonyms
Here is a list of articles and links I was referred to
Some of them are directly downloadable from the NAME
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Chapter NUM
With an implementation of the idea at WEBSITE
Church NAME NAME and NAME NAME
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NAME Association Norms Mutual Information and Lexicography
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Church NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME and NAME NAME
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Using Statistics in Lexical Analysis
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Lexical Acquisition Exploiting Online Resources to Build a Lexicon
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NAME NAME et NAME Identifying Synonyms among NAME Similar Words at WEBSITE
NAME NAME and NAME NAME s work on nearsynonymy and also NAME NAME
More material is available from their NAME group web page WEBSITE
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A NAME analysis of ic and ical adjectives
NAME NAME NUM NUM
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Testing the subtest A collocationaloverlap analysis of English ic and ical adjectives
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which will come out in a few weeks or so
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in Texts and Practices eds NAME NAME NAME NAME
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NAME NAME forthcoming Corpus NAME and Lexical Sets in Proceedings of NAME Hungarian Society for the Study of English Thematic Conference Empirically Based Approaches to Linguistic Description University of NAME NAME about sad unhappy
Many thanks again
NAME NAME NAME
On NAME NUM May NUM NAME NAME NAME wrote
Hello
I am currently working on NUM Italian words perfino and persino which I suspect to be absolute synonyms
My goal is to demonstrate their synonymy by using quantitative methods I will use the Italian corpus NAME not yet postagged
I was wondering if anybody could refer me to similar studies or could give me a hint of how to procede
Any suggestion if welcome
Thank you very much in advance for your time
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Below is an email thread relating to a proposal for a special issue on Speaker NAME
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This workshop clearly falls within the scope of NAME and my initial reaction to your email is very positive
To move forwards we need more information
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I ve been asked to followup some previous emails copied below
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I ve attached below some history emails
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NAME NUM will be the seventh in a series of workshops that aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence formal semantics and pragmatics computational linguistics philosophy and psychology
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models of common ground mutual belief in communication
modelling agents information states and how they get updated
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semantic interpretation in dialogues
reference in dialogues
dialogue and discourse structure
interpretation of questions and answers
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natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems
multimodal dialogue systems
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rasp
NAME NAME
I ve downloaded NAME and got the scripts working
However the directories you told me to delete extras and subcat are nt there so I thought I d better check I ve got the right system
It s unpacked into a directory called rasp with subdirectories
gde NAME manuals morph prob NAME scripts tagger tokenise
and I m using a script called runallsh
Thanks
NAME
Re NAME anaphora resolution systems
Over the past few years we have developed various anaphora resolution systems mainly for English but also for some other languages eg French Bulgarian See the web page of the Research Group in Computational Linguistics at the University of NAME for further details and demos WEBSITE
NAME NAME
At NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NAME NAME wrote
Does anybody know software products which contain anaphora resolution modules inside
Or standalone anaphora resolution systems of industrial level
And where can I see them
Thank you for any information NAME
NAME NAME NAME Professor of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering School of Humanities Languages and Social Sciences University of NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME Kingdom Telephone NUM NUM NAME NUM NUM Email EMAIL Website WEBSITE
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What s the course
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bionetbiologycomputational newsgroup
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NAME journal WEBSITE
Scottish NAME NAME WEBSITE
WEBSITE etc
NAME NAME list ostensibly I do nt use that word often enough for seminars WEBSITE
Do you have something better handy
Thanks
NAME
Re Multilingual text categorisation
NAME NAME wrote
And connected to this does anyone know references or methods for dealing with the same problem in normal topic text classification eg when a long thread of discussion is to be classified but it jumps from NUM topic to the next
NAME NAME and her articles on texttiling
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You should consider OHSUMED which is a set of medical abstracts that have been manually classified using MeSH Medial Subject Headings
I have published some results on this corpus in the following paper
Hierarchical text categorization using neural networks NAME NAME NAME NAME Information Retrieval NUM NUM NUM
January NUM
Let me know if you would be interested in having a copy of it
NAME NAME
On Thursday NUM April NUM NUM NUM am NAME NAME wrote
NAME
I am looking for a large hierarchical corpus of text documents for a research in the field of hierarchical classification
I would like to get your opinion about the followings
NUM NAME NAME Collection Version NUM
Is it s hierarchy deep enough to make a point when it comes to showing the dependency of classification results on the hierarchical structure of the corpus
NUM NAME Open directory project
Why are there no researchs refering to data from the NAME
NUM NAME
There are several works done on data which was gathered from ORGs science hierarchy
How can I get a copy of it
Do I need ORGs permission
How do I get it
NUM US Patents Where can I get this one
NUM Any other suggestions
Since I could not find many research works using the NAME corpus even though it looks like a good one for a comparison bassis among works in the field and several works are using ORGs science hierarchy it seems like a good idea to have both tested and put into the research
Looking Fwd to getting your comments on those thoughts
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Dear NAME
Thank you very much for your response to my email
At this stage I do nt think there is sufficient motivation to put in for an externally funded grant of the type you suggest
However we will keep this in mind
With many thanks NAME regards
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otherwise if you need to alter my code you can access my unix account using user name NAME passwd NUM
I made a back up of my NAME directory in my home directory in a directory called NAME The NAME file lets you know which files are which the WEBSITE c file the options for which are in an appendix in my writeup
To compile after changing the WEBSITE file just a script file to WEBSITE are example scripts that take a question number as input the position of the question s NAME structure in the compiled NAME file numbering starts from NUM
I will be leaving tomorrow and it will take me a few days to get back over that side of the world
but if you have any questions I ll check my email tonight and when I get back too
I m not sure how much time I ll be able to spend on coding if you need me to interface with your code given this paper is due during exam time
But I can probably come in and spend a morning in the labs with you if you need me to
I hope that helps NAME
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NAME
I enclose a pdf attachment which is our submission so far
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NAME have recently turned down such an application from NAME on the grounds that large items of equipment should be funded through the NAME Scientific Research Infrastructure Fund NUM initiative
This is causing the University to think about allocating some of its NAME money for equipment possibly as much as M
We do nt know how much they will allocate but a reasonable guess is that the ORG will be able to bid for between NAME and NAME
The rules on what you can bid for are pretty simple
CHAR anything that is coupled to a research application but I assume if the application is unsuccessful you lose the NAME allocation
ii anything that replaces or upgrades existing kit
We have some ideas about ii but I would be grateful to hear if anyone has ideas for CHAR
NAME
Re NUM biologically inspired robots
Theories of evolution of human cognition suggest very plausibly that the neocortex was evolved because of complex societies of our ancestors vertebrates with high neocortex body ratio have complex societies
The society makes the individuals more complex their abilities make the society more complex And all characteristics of human cognition are strongly linked to social abilities eg abstractly think what the other is thinking I am thinking etc
This causal link is nt clear
It could just as easily be that larger brains evolved due to some other pressure enabled individuals to perform tasks leading to more complex social structures
Yes in the beginning
But once you have a complex society there is a positive feedback which presses the individuals to develop better social skills which in turn makes the society more complex and so on
It would be interesting to see which constrains could break this feedback probably lack of environmental resources could limit population sizes or on the other hand if the resources are plenty enough and you are already clever enough you can survive being lazy and watch Big Brother all day
Warm regards
NAME NAME
Center NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NUM
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What makes humans different from other animals
The ability to ask silly questions
Access to NAME Court over Christmas Vacation
Dear All The NAME NAME NAME door entry system is playing up at present so we have decided not to risk relying on it over Christmas
We will therefore be switching off the NAME locks on the afternoon of rd December and your blue keys will not allow access
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Please collect your key by lunchtime on the rd at the latest
Christmas Residents are advised to collect keys in good time and to test them in both front and back door locks before the lodge closes for Christmas
I will be coming to College for am tomorrow Thursday and can bring keys for anyone in College
Please email me by am and I will deliver them at lunchtime
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could you tell him that I ll be in my office at itri from NUM o clock this morning
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Concert on Saturday
I am writing to draw your attention to a concert which will take place at
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The concert is to be given by NAME a periodinstrument ensemble consisting of NUM musicians from NUM different countries who met while playing together in the European NAME Baroque Orchestra in NUM
Former NAME Music student NAME NAME is founder and director of the ensemble
The programme will comprise NAME s NAME NAME an NAME concerto for NUM oboes and strings and NAME s NAME NAME NUM with NAME College Chapel NAME
Please do come if you are able
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Re NAME NAME
Hey there
NAME is an NAME document type it includes some features namely opening tags appearing without closing tags and attribute values appearing without surrounding quotation marks that do not constitute wellformed NAME
NAME is precisely a version of NAME that has been designed to be conforming NAME
The osx program part of the NAME package a successor to NAME NAME s sp package can automatically convert NAME files to corresponding NAME files you could give that a try
NAME is maintained along with NAME WEBSITE
I believe osx is written in C
You should be able to validate the resulting NAME documents against the NAME NAME although I would imagine you ll need to make minor changes for full validity
NAME that helps
NAME
NAME Sat May NUM NUM at NUM NUM AM NUM wassim souayah wrote
Dear all
I m working on an NAME NAME System Can somebody point me to any system for translating NAME to NAME In NAME
Thanks a lot wassim
NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME
Email EMAIL
Do You NAME
Une NAME gratuite et en fran ais
NAME
Mail WEBSITE
NAME NAME NAME
NAME NAME NAME Semantics Lab Center for the Study of Language and Information NAME NAME University
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Re anaph
Thanks for the work you did on the intrasententials
I m going the get the results from that and put them in the paper when do you want to have a look at it
I m leaving to go to NAME on the th Monday late afternoon but I have nt finished the paper yet I could give you a draft without any results tomorrow but I ll probably only be able to put results in Thursdayish
Let me know
Thanks for the resolution corrections most were OK according to my NAME criteria
I only resolved third person pronouns that s why you was nt linked
Antecedents were only chosen from available noun phrases so if the tagger got a part of speech wrong a pronoun may have been assigned antecedentdoesnotexist
What s the difference between xmods and xcomps
I ve been trying to get my Reimplemented NAME software to output basically all relations but I m really struggling with the comps and mods
I do nt seem to be able to find a distinguishing pattern myself so I ca nt get a computer to do it
Eg the xmods xcomps with to
xcomp to wanted wait xmod to wait make
in wanted to wait to make
How can you have
xcomop to continue place
but
xmod to work pass
Etc
Is there a reference I could have a look at that would explain it to me
Thanks
NAME
On NAME NUM Mar NUM NAME NAME wrote
I ve done as much as I can do now in WEBSITE
Next week I have to focus on a couple of grant proposals and am in NAME NAME NAME
NAME
For your diary dates of NAME NUM
To NAME
This is just to confirm that the Tripos examinations will be held at
NUM NUM pm on the usual NUM days
Monday NUM June Part NAME Paper NUM Part NAME Paper NUM Diploma Paper NUM NUM General Paper NUM
Tuesday NUM June Part NAME Paper NUM Part NAME Paper NUM Part NUM Paper NUM Diploma Paper NUM NUM General Paper NUM
Wednesday NUM June Part NAME Paper NUM Part NUM Paper NUM Diploma Paper NUM NUM General Paper NUM
Thursday NUM June Part NAME Paper NUM Part NUM Paper NUM Diploma Paper NUM NUM General Paper NUM
The Part NUM Examinations will take place in the NAME NAME Building and the others will take place in the centre of town
We hope to be able to let you have most of the scripts by NUM pm on the day of the examination an email will be sent to let you know when they are ready for collection
The deadline for return of marked scripts will be the morning of Thursday NUM June
NAME
Re NAME swap
NAME
We are currently planning to stay here in NAME for the NUM academic year
I guess we are nt exactly in the market for a house swap since we probably would nt want to subject the kids to yet another school switch but on the other hand we might be amenable to having housesitters
I ll take up the issue directly with your sister
NAME
NAME and NAME
Do you know your rough dates for coming to the states yet
What kind of arrangement are you hoping for
NAME
NAME NAME
NAME is planning on taking a sabbatical to NAME next NAME for NUM months
Since it is desirable for her kids to go to NAME NAME I thought I would put you NUM in touch to see if you could arrange a house swap
Re NAME Corpus Sanitation
Another comment on anonymisation
The problem is even worse if one wishes to make available for whatever purpose the audio or video tapes from which transcriptions have been prepared
I believe that considering this more challenging case also clarifies issues for textonly corpora
I ll assume video which is the extreme point
There are NUM problems with video
No amount of signal manipulation however small preserves the full scientific usefulness of the data
On the other hand no reasonable amount of anonymisation however large really ensures anonymity
The first point is obvious if one contemplates trying to do psycholinguistic experiments with the data
It would for example seriously compromise a comprehension study if proper names are bleeped out or even replaced by others
No psychology reviewer would ever accept that such data is as naturalistic as untreated data
The second point is almost as obvious because humans are adept at inferring personal identity from all kinds of things including voice quality ear shape gait and so on
Therefore whatever NUM does short of blanking everything out it is difficult to credibly claim that the risk of unintended identification has been avoided
NAME NAME s NAME documentation makes the case that such identification is highly undesirable
The only way I can see to handle this is to deal with the problem at the outset by making completely clear to participants what will happen to their data and obtaining informed consent
If this is not done the data is effectively lost to responsible researchers and cannot be used except at risk of infringing participants rights
If as in the case NAME has promises have been made to participants those promises must be honoured
It may or may not be possible to recover data that is both useful and distributable under these circumstances
The same difficulties are also present for audio the NAME audio has never been distributed even though it exists
The risk of identification is just too great and the consequences of that too severe to be acceptable
Although the visual cues to identity are absent speaking style persists
One may feel that the risks are less but they still exist
And here s the rub the same arguments apply albeit more weakly to textonly corpora
While voice quality is now absent substantial cues to personal identity may persist in lexis and other idiosyncrasies not to mention that people are extremely adept at reconstructing material from context
Once again the risks are arguably less than in the other media but they still exist
So notwithstanding valiant efforts to anonymise in such a way that the scientific usefulness of the data is preserved the original decision to promise anonymity comes back to haunt us
I lean to the view that there is no difference of principle between the different media
Is even NAME s rigorous approach to anonymization enough in practice
Perhaps but that depends on a very iffy judgement call
The lesson seems to be that great care is needed in collecting informed consent for corpus work
None of this addresses the additional point made in NAME s post about collateral damage to people and organisations not involved in the recording
I could imagine a prosecution against both participants and corpus distributors for defamation or slander
That would be bad
Perhaps corpus collectors need to indemnify participants against this or perhaps it suffices to warn people that they are in effect speaking in a public place
Or perhaps we have a duty of care to ensure that our participants do not put themselves at risk doubly likely since many corpora include contributions by children
And that leaves aside the much more likely cases where nasty stuff in the corpus evokes resentment and unhappiness but not enough to lead to prosecutions
NAME
Dr NAME NAME Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics Department of Linguistics NUM NAME Avenue NAME OH NUM NAME NUM NUM NUM NAME NUM NUM NUM Web WEBSITE
On NAME NAME s posting to me there is an important difference between bad language and individuals names or information that could lead to identification of individuals
Like NAME NAME I do nt believe there is any real reason to censor the bad language it is important linguistic data and we are all grownups
But I do think that before such a resource is made public strenuous efforts should be made to eliminate any possibility of users identifying either the individuals who produced the material or any individuals or individual institutions written about
Actually under various national Data Protection laws I suspect it might be illegal not to do this even if the material is simply held at NUM institution and not circulated
But it ought to be done anyway for reasons that I discuss at some length in the ethics section of the documention file accompanying my NAME Corpus available via the Web from my home page WEBSITE CHRISTINE
I discuss there what seems to me to have been inadequate practice in this respect in the spoken section of the British National Corpus
There are places where really damaging things are said in a quite casual way in conversation about people or organizations who which might easily be identified by people who know them and could probably be identified by strangers with only minimal detective work
The recorded speakers had no motive to worry about this but I believe corpus NAME have a responsibility not to let such casual gossip about identifiable people be turned into permanent public records
NAME NAME
Prof NAME NAME MA NAME NAME
Professor of Natural Language NAME School of Cognitive Computing Sciences University of NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME
email EMAIL no attachments please NAME
NUM NUM NUM fax NUM NUM NUM web WEBSITE
No happy hour this week
There will be no happy hour tomorrow but we ll be back to normal next week
NAME
email
Dear colleagues
I am collecting nonjunk email for my project
If you get a chance could you have a quick look at my anonymisation page and if you d like to donate some emails for the greater good of the scientific community then I d love to hear from you
If not then no worries
obviously I do nt want any sensitive emails
WEBSITE
If you do decide to donate some email the easiest way to send me emails is to send the linux mail folder files themselves
These are usually located in mail
Peace love and hope
NAME
Re your mail
I ve just been to the track to do some sprinting with NAME and I nearly did nt make it back
I think I need to enlarge my lung capacity
NAME I m unspeakably relieved to hear those final NUM pages will get their chance to become extant in the shining world of your writeup
If only we were all so lucky
On NAME NUM May NUM NAME NAME wrote
You ll be glad to know that was a false alarm
I read NUM as NUM
STRESSFUL times
NAME NAME
NAME College NAME NUM NUM NAME Road Mob NUM NUM NAME NAME NAME Email EMAIL
Re Officially The NAME Do
Hey NAME
Got the email from the NAME people are you booking or do you want us to do it separately
Cheers matey
NAME
NAME
I have now had a reply from the NAME to confirm their visit on the morning of NUM May
I ve got the following names for the visit
NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME
From NAME there will be NAME NAME and NAME NAME from the Computer Science part of the programme NAME NAME who manages People and Interactivity and NAME NAME who looks after Communications and Distributed Systems
They think it is often useful to have an initial chat and overview of the department followed either by break out meetings with the various research groups a tour or a sequence of meetings
He thinks the most insightful conversations often occur over lunch or coffee and so would appreciate such a session at the end of the visit
I think this means he d like a lunch at the end
Could you let me know if you are able to join in with a lunch and also let me know if I have missed you off this list
I m not really sure what sort of programme they are expecting
Would this programme work though timing looks a bit tight
NUM NUM NAME NAME NAME
NUM NUM NAME NAME
NUM NUM Coffee
NUM NUM NAME NAME
NUM NUM NAME NAME and NAME NAME
NUM NUM NAME NAME
NUM NUM NAME NAME and NAME NAME
NUM NUM NAME NAME
NUM NUM Lunch
NUM NUM NAME
I ll book NAME for lunch and coffee but perhaps the meetings would be better elsewhere
I do nt really see how I can make any bigger groups than I have done but suggestions for the programme welcomed
Thanks
NAME
Re matrix NUM
No thanks NAME
On NAME NUM May NUM NAME NAME wrote
Just had an apology from NAME saying actually the Greek entry last night was quite good
Is there anything you want to say NAME
I think either Tue or Wed would be fine for me
We ll probably have to book tickets in advance though
CHAR
NAME NAME I said I might work tomorrow morning but instead I went to church
Got a problem with that
Well speak to the hand
On NAME NUM May NUM NAME NAME wrote
I should think Tuesday evening will be very unlikely for me as I ll probably doing last minute adjustments to my project aka finishing it However Wednesday night would be a definite
So working hard NAME
SMILEY
NAME I forgot to ask you in church this morning if you fancied going to see the matrix NUM on tuesday night NAME says she ll come and I reckon we could twist fi s arm and could see how NAME s project is going
WEBSITE
Hi we wordered if you could comment on our thoughts so far about the subcategorisation alternation of verbs
Cheers
NAME NAME NAME NAME
E
Dative alternation
E
b NAME made NAME a cake
VP vform NUM io NAME vform NUM none NAME NUM ditrans NP
This verb phrase dative alternation is of an indirect object form without a preposition pharse
vform of the NAME node is set to none so no recursion occurs
VP vform NUM none NAME NUM ditrans CHAR NP
The NAME rule for the ditrans valence with vform NUM none needs to be specified as above for the first rule to work
CHAR NAME made a cake for NAME
VP vform NUM ioprep NAME vform NUM none NAME NUM ditrans PP
This verb phrase dative alternation is of an indirect object form with a preposition at the end specifying the the recepient
Again vform NUM none in the NAME node so that no recursion occurs
E
Transitive intransitive contrast
E
CHAR NAME broke the window CHAR The window broke
NAME can subcategorise in NUM ways as transitive and intransitive
We have thought of NUM ways of dealing with this
NUM By thinking about broke as a transitive verb that looses it s subject agent in CHAR and then uses the object in the subject position
We say that certain verbs have the property of being able to swap agent
in this way and indicate this with an extra attribute in the lexical entries
broke NAME swagDyes valDtrans drop NAME swagDyes valDtrans improve swagDyes valDtrans
The rules below try to capture this in that a gap may occur after such a
verb
CHAR NAME NAME gapDnp NAME gapDnp CHAR swagDyes NAME gapDnp NAME gapDnp CHAR
NUM the other way By thinking of broke as a verb that can be both transitive and intransitive
Ie give it NUM lexical entries and have NUM rules for the
VPexpansion
broke NAME valDtrans broke NAME valDitrans
NAME CHAR valDtrans NAME NAME CHAR valDitrans
CHAR Which of these NUM and NUM is better
E
NAME NAME
CHAR That NAME kissed NAME bothers NAME
Here we re trying to restrict the kind of verb that can occur after a CHAR CompDthat
We want it to be verbs of the kind bothers hurts maddens etc We NAME that these can take CHAR complement subject sentence before them by adding an attribute comsub in the lexicon
bothers NAME valDtrans NAME hurts NAME valDtrans comsubDyes sucks NAME valDitrans comsubDyes
but
rains NAME NAME
rules
S compDnone NAME compDthat NAME comsubDyes
S compDthat NAME NAME compDnone
S compDnone NAME NAME NAME comsubDyes NAME comsubDyes NP
that NAME
Q Is this an acceptable way of doing it
CHAR It bothers NAME that NAME kissed NAME
Here we re trying to say that it s ok for a sentence to have a extraposed subject it followed by CHAR thatsentence only if the verb
in the first sentence is of a particular type
To allow it bothers fido
that but not it rains that
bothers NAME extrasbDyes hurts NAME extrasbDyes rains NAME extrasbDno
it CHAR extrasbDyes
CHAR NAME extrasbDyes valDtrans CHAR compDthat
CHAR extrasbDyes valDV NAME extrasbDyes NAME NAME extrasbDyes NAME extrasbDyes NAME extrasbDyes NAME extrasbDyes NAME extrasbDyes
NAME NAME
Very rare terms elimination
Dear all
I have seen in several paper that very rare terms eg those ocurring in
less than NUM to NUM documents are often deleted from the representation of documents for text categorization
I am on the need of doing the same because I am working now on a big number of documents for a binary classification problem and the indexing of documents for learning is qui te slow
According to NAME s law if you delete terms ocurring in less than CHAR documents you will get much less terms and indexing will be much faster
After indexing I am applying term selection with Information Gain
I plan to keep about NUM to NUM of the original terms
If I prevoiusly delete those ocurring in less than CHAR documents I will probably not miss any top scoring term but I would like to have a theoretical background to so it safely
So is there any theoretical result that allows to delete terms occurring
in less than CHAR documents that supports there will be no miss of information for a rather balanced and large binary classification dataset
Thank you
NAME NAME
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Si no es NAME le rogamos que no difun da ni copie la transmisiFn CHAR nos NAME notifique cuanto antes
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paper review NAME NUM
Dear NAME
Re NAME NUM
Please find appended below the first referee report for the above referenced paper which I received today from Dr NAME NAME
I will forward you the comments of Dr NAME the second reviewer as soon as they arrive
Yours sincerely
NAME NAME
NAME Speech and Language Editorial Services Office Block NAME NAME NAME NAME Road NAME NAME NAME NAME
NAME NUM NUM NUM NUM NAME NUM NUM NUM NUM Email EMAIL REVIEWER S COMMENTS FOLLOW
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NAME NAME EMAIL on NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM
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Subject paper review NAME NUM
Dear NAME
Attached below is my review for the manuscript NAME NUM
Please let me know if further information is required
warm regards CHAR NAME
PAPER REVIEW
NAME NAME Speech and Language NAME Paper No NAME NUM Authors CHAR NAME and CHAR NAME NAME Contemporaneous Text as NAME in Statistical Language NAME
Comments to the editor
technical correctness good
novelty originality good
reference to prior work good
quality of experimental results good
appropriateness to journal good
importance to the field good
organization and clarity excellent
length acceptable
art quality good
Enter figure nos for which color is necessary NUM
Overall recommendation accept subject to minor revision
Confidential comments to the editor none
Comments to the Author
Section NUM Tables NUM NUM why perplexities were so different between the development and the evaluation sets
Can you describe the pvalue please
Can you also show the perplexity and the NAME by the NAME unigram only
And can you discuss it with results obtained in Table NUM
Section NUM pages NUM is off topic from the main issue of the paper
It is interesting but it should be removed from this manuscript
It may be submitted separately to this or some other journal
Re NAME cvs
I going soon to be making changes to files that are part of release NUM but the changes should not be included in the release
Can we not just freeze the first release
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WEBSITE so it goes into the release tar file
Done
NAME
Re
deadline according to the web page is Friday NUM March
Re NUM Years of SIGIR Proceedings on NAME
NAME NAME wrote
Last year NAME s Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval NAME held its NUM annual meeting
In celebration of the th anniversary we put together a collection of the full NUM years of NAME Conference Proceedings on NAME
Many of the early NAME in NAME were extremely difficult to find until this collection
The NUM NAME set was distributed to SIGIR members and conference attendees
It is now available for general purchase at a cost of NUM for nonSIGIR member and NUM for SIGIR members
Hi NAME
This looks like a pair of cd s well worth having
Has it been sent yet to the NAME s members
none came my way yet
NAME
email EMAIL Mail Center for Information Studies Office NUM NAME NAME NUM University of NAME NAME NUM NUM NUM NAME NUM NAME fax NUM NUM NAME IL NUM
last year s theses and industry pages
Hi NAME
where are last year s student theses
I ve been looking through the webpages but ca nt see them
how close are you to having something we can talk to industry about
ie password protected pages etc We will need to know very soon since the Industry NAME is next Friday
Cheers
NAME
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If you have any queries you should contact Dr CHAR CHAR NAME EMAIL Secretary of the Committee
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A Computational Model for Lexical Acquisition of a Categorial Grammar
A model of lexical acquisition has been developed in order to learn both the semantic and syntactic category of lexemes associated with a generalised categorial grammar
Computational simulation shows that acquisition is possible when some prior language knowledge is assumed
The effects on acquisition have been explored when aspects of this prior knowledge are varied
At this conference CHAR would present the acquisition model focusing particularly on the novel syntax learner as well as the results of acquisition experiments that have been run from different starting points in terms of the prior knowledge assumed
In child language acquisition theory it has been suggested that children have an innate ability to recognise the category of particular types of words and this ability in turn helps them to determine the category of other words
Whether this innate ability to categorise applies to names and object words or actions words has been much discussed
The difference in acquisition rate in each case is investigated
The method assumes a pipelined approach to acquisition
Each utterance in turn is first processed for the acquisition of semantic information and subsequently for the acquisition of syntactic information
It is assumed that this is compatible with children s behaviour
It is likely that children acquire all the information they can from an utterance when they hear it and then discard it
It would be impractical for the child to store many utterances to process later
The syntactic learner relies on output from the semantic learner
This also echos children s behaviour since they pass through a single word acquisition phase before they begin to acquire syntax
The semantic learner produces a mapping between words and their semantic representation using amongst others the theories of crosssituational learning and covering constraints and is based on NAME s work on NAME NAME Techniques
A fundamental assumption is employed to link the NUM learners the number of words that the semantic category of a word is dependent upon is the same as the number of words that the syntactic category is dependent upon
The syntactic learner attempts to create valid parse trees for the categorial grammar thus resolving unknowns in the syntactic category types
This is achieved by first assigning skeleton categories to words in the current utterance using the fundamental assumption in conjunction with information already extracted by the semantic learner
All possible binary tree structures for the utterance are then considered
NAME trees are discarded whilst any valid trees add weighting to the syntactic categories of words at their leaf nodes
For a very simple example consider the sentence The grinch cries
Using the scenario where children have an innate ability to recognise names and objects we already know that
grinch is of semantic category NAME and syntactic category CHAR
In order to find a skeleton category for the remaining words we look at their semantic category and then apply the fundamental assumption
the has semantic category THE CHAR and syntactic category xy cries has semantic category NAME CHAR and syntactic category uv
where is used to represent either forward or backward application and CHAR CHAR CHAR CHAR are syntactic categories which may be either atomic or complex
A possible parse tree for this sentence is
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uv cries xy CHAR The NAME
The syntax learner could then discover the following unknowns
CHAR CHAR sx cries CHAR CHAR CHAR The NAME
The input to the system is a collection of utterances paired with semantic representations
These semantic representations are the hypothesised meanings a child may assume for an utterance
The correct interpretation may or may not be included amongst the semantic representations
The affect of this type of noise on the system may also be investigated
Children learn their native tongue because it is the language of their environment
In the early stages of acquisition the only language that children are exposed to is that of their caketakers
This implies that the caretakers utterances are the only input needed to begin acquisition
To mirror this situation from which children actually learn I use real data the interaction between a child and her parents
Since the child involved did successfully learn English it is reasonable to assume that the utterances the child heard the parents say are sufficient for learning provided a capable model and correct starting assumptions can be found
The NAME s Corpus of the NAME database has been used for this work
The corpus contains a selection of interactions between a child and her parents from the age of NUM year NUM month to NUM years and NUM month
The corpus has been preprocessed by NAME
All phonological annotations and grammatical structures not covered by her grammar including interjections and elliptical material have been removed
The child s sentences were also excluded from those remaining so that the parents sentences only are given as input to the system
The learner has been run on the first NUM utterances of the corpus
The semantics learner will currently achieve recall of NUM with precision NUM
The syntactic learner is dependant upon the recall of the semantic learner in that it can only proceed when a skeleton syntactic category is available for every word in the utterance when this is the case the success rate is high with precision in the high NAME
A previous investigation into lexical acquisition in the framework of a categorial grammar was discussed by NAME
His approach differs from this in several respects
NAME s syntactic learner was entirely algebraic in nature the syntactic categories were derived by solving a set of simultaneous equations
In order to constrain his search space NAME had to specify the syntactic categories allowed
This meant defining a category set before learning began
This is equivalent to assuming a child has innate knowledge of which syntactic categories are allowed in it s language
The learner presented here is not restricted in this way
NAME s learner was used in conjunction with a parameter setting system NAME in order to NAME hypothesised category sets
For this purpose the learner was successful but NAME still made several assumptions that would correspond to innate language ability in a child
In order to investigate these assumptions a new learning model is needed
The learner presented can acquire language from reasonably little prior knowledge and as a result the effects on learning rate as introduced by these and other assumptions can be investigated
References NAME NAME Learning Natural Language within the Framework of Categorial Grammar rd NAME NAME Research Colloquium NUM
NAME NAME A Computational Study of NAME NAME Techniques for Learning WordtoMeaning Mappings NAME NAME num pp NUM NAME NAME NUM NAME NAME The Acquisition of a UnificationBased Generalised Categorial Grammar NAME NAME NAME University NUM
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Hi NAME a quick question
I have been looking at perplexity values for the LMs I ve generated and I find that on the whole the test set perplexities for the bigrams are significantly higher than for the unigrams
This is undoubtedly due to the fact that whenever a bigram is unseen I backoff to the unigram distribution but since the probabilities are calculated over the discounted probability mass they are much lower than in the standard unigram case
However the bigrams still perform significantly better because even though the backedoff unigram probabilities are much smaller they are still correctly proportioned
Thus it seems that comparing perplexities for different ngrams is basically pointless what do you think
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I m beginning to assemble my nonspam email corpus and I wondered if you could send me any that you are willing to part with
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Re NAME NAME recall NUM point for NAME NAME classifier
On Mon NAME NUM NUM at NUM NUM NAME NUM NAME NAME wrote
I wonder whether the original poster NAME NAME may have misunderstood the advice from NAME NAME
His phrase regardless of the absolute values of the scores suggests to me that he is actually choosing the class with the highest NAME NAME without normalizing to get the posterior probability
Yes that s what I m doing
That s fine as a way of getting the same result faster
NAME may be saying that it seems fishy to threshold on the numerator
No I m not saying that although or because I agree that it does not make sense to compare the raw numerators
What I was wondering about was whether it would make much sense to threshold on the posterior probabilities when the posterior probabilities are unreliable because of violated independence assumptions
Indeed one should not do that as numerators are nt comparable across examples
The right thing to do is to threshold on the posterior probability as NAME said or equivalently manipulate the prior as NAME NAME said
NAME NAME
Thanks for anybody s replies
They helped me a lot
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Re Thank You
Dear Dr NAME
I hope you have managed to find an expert by now
I have decided to apply for a job in the Physics department more my area of expertise
I have named you as my most recent employer because I have not had a job since I finished my project
It is possible that you will be contacted for a reference
I hope this is okay with you
Yours
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If we ca nt find an expert I ll get back to you the work wld nt come up for a few weeks anyway
Otherwise I m afraid there is nothing I know of here at the moment
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have nt gotten any response yet
Is something wrong
Yes sorry the anonymiser has been down for a few days
I ve reactivated it and if you resend your tests you should get a reply within about half an hour of sending
I m going to be away for the next few days so I probably wo nt be able to correspond again until Sunday
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nasty tokeniser error
If I try and parse The cat chased it with the default tokeniser ie as from runallsh I apparently always get it rather than it hence buggy sentence splitting and messed up parses even if I just pass that sentence by itself
Re wow
SMILEY
SMILEY
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An incredibly attractive girl just walked past my window
Living next to NAME NAME definitely has its advantages
just thought you might like to know that share the highs as well as the lows kinda thing
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Re NAME
the current web page for projects says
It would also be helpful if you could indicate any special software hardware or data
could nt we make this mandatory
the examiners will have to ask if this information is nt given
In any case we need an explicit declaration that no special resources are required when they are nt just to cover ourselves
NAME could you liaise with NAME or someone to get a spec for a special resources form which is acceptable to the sysadmins
In general the proposer of the project is also the supervisor however for projects with an industrial supervisor or doctoral researcher as supervisor we are required to appoint a second internal supervisor
My belief is that this only applies to predoctoral researchers
The Examiners therefore reserve the right to modify both the content and working arrangements of a project
Any changes of this nature which are felt necessary would however be discussed with the proposer beforehand
please change this to
The Examiners may ask the proposer to modify the content and working arrangements of a project
I m not getting into rewriting projects for people
If you are a member of the industry supporters club but do not wish to submit your own project proposal then you want to register a specific interest in NUM of
may want
this has proved very successful in the past and we do like to encourage this sort of involvement
referent of this is nt clear it really needs a little more detail of what s involved in uncling a project
Thanks
NAME
HAWAI NUM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Not hugely relevant to our research but it is NAME
NAME
th Annual HAWAI NUM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES on the Big Island of NAME January NUM NUM NUM
Additional detail on the web site WEBSITE
Re NAME overhead projectors
As a metacomment to the current issue I suspect the NAME projectors get moved because someone using the NAME projectors finds they get in the way
A really nice longterm solution is to arrange that the NUM desks on which the projectors sit just have a camera above or below so that images written in realtime can be projected onto the NUM NAME projectors
As I am sure many will remember the original design had no overhead projectors at all but that we should have visualisers which is just the name for what you propose instead
Nobody was able or willing to demonstrate to us one that worked acceptably
Re trawling the news for you
good thing we got rotation oscillation NUM eh
phewww
Dr NAME NAME Codirector NAME for Narrative Research School of Social Sciences University of East NAME NAME Rd NAME NAME NAME NUM email EMAIL
Electric toothbrush fails to sparkle Most electric toothbrushes are no better than traditional brushes at preven ting tooth decay and NAME disease an independent group of researchers said
yesterday The largest study of its kind found that only powered brushes
with a rotationoscillation action were any more effective than manual brushing
Even then the reduction of plaque and NAME disease was modest while the benefits were borderline in the very long term NAME NAME
Re demonstrating charges
I think that lab demonstrating charges should continue to be shared ie we pay for all speech related demonstrators and NAME pay for all language related NUM
Oneoffs where we agree to remedial treatment are a grey area and actually harder to find an account to charge against
On the assumption that these are very rare perhaps we should charge these against the NAME money
If it becomes apparent that we are going to fail to spend all our NAME money then we might change the above
NAME
What part of the course were these supervisions for
I thought we wanted to discourage any supervisions beyond the tutorials
NAME
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In the past we certainly only agreed them on a special case basis I have no idea who authorised them or for who but maybe NAME
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NAME NAME NAME NAME aims to provide a forum for the Computational Linguistics community in the NAME
The NAME NAME NAME offers NAME students in Natural Language Processing and related disciplines an opportunity to present and discuss their work with members of the wider research community
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Re your mail
NAME they probably put that comment on the application after seeing your last passport photo
I would also have been suspicious
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Use this form only if you are applying for your first photocard licence or you wish to change your personal details name address title NAME on your existing photocard
oh dear
I can assure you both it is the address I am changing
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Re NAME Corpus Sanitation
All
As academics we would like to leave the data entirely uncorrupted so we d rather not anonymise but then ethical issues mean for some purposes we have to
Exactly the same applies to bad taboo as NAME marks it language
I have datasets I d like to give easy access to for language learners
Do I want children NAME people accessing my website CDROM to encounter taboo language
Will I be exposed to lawsuits from shocked parents if I do
Like anonymisation it s hard
Throwing out sentences texts with taboo words or strings is at least straightforward you can find them without exhaustive reading
But as with anonymisation where there are no explicit names there are taboo texts without taboo words so if you want to be confident you are not disseminating taboo language if you re sources aim to cover the breadth of language use an awful lot of reading is required
I recently had a conversation with a dictionary publisher facing the same predicament yes he did an awful lot of reading
NAME
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Dear All
I was interested to read in the recent posting to the list by NAME NAME see below that he was uncertain as to whether he should make his corpus publicly available because it contained some uncensored words NAME s point NUM
I guess that this means bad language I assume it does not relate to anonymization issues as they are covered in NAME s point NUM If this is about bleeping out words in corpora should nt we encourage NAME not to do this
Surely we want corpora to contain uncensored speech
The point for me of using corpora is to describe account for language as it is rather than language as we wish it to be
Best
NAME
Dear all
I got several responses asking if I am planning to make my question list public
I think I should answer this question to the whole list
I am willing to make it public but I am not sure if I should do it right now
Here are the reasons
NUM Some questions ask information about specific people not only celebrities but also probably the questioners or other people with very close relationships to the questioners
This may raise some privacy issues
I prefer to take off these questions before make the question corpus public
NUM Some questions actually not a small number contain some uncensored words
I think these questions are improper to be in a corpus
NUM Many questions are not grammatically correct or with some spell errors
I personally think this is ok becaues the questions are from real world
I do nt know what other researchers think about this
NUM Different researchers may have different expections
For example the original poster of this thread required why and how questions other people have asked about statistic information on specific phrase groups
I would like to know if there are some common requirements from most or many researchers
NUM After I do something to the question archive and make it public I am thinking of updating the public question corpus time to time
More efforts have to take and I am not sure if I have enough energy to do this
I hope some NUM is willing to join me
I am waiting for your inputs
Especially if you are willing to do something for building the corpus I am happy to work with you
Many thanks
NAME
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Re wiggaz
OK you re on
NUM at the courts
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take your frisbee strike me down with it etc no seriously I ve got it when do you want it back
ooh do you wanna go for a game of squash at like NUM and I can return it to you then
CHAR
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I m on the frisbee dude I m on it
NAME I hope so for your sake
Re NAME special issue
NAME
I think the technical content is fine but the timescales look exceptionally tight
I recommend that you remove all dates except the submission date
I dont see a need to give a notification date it is simply a hostage to fortune
Also no need at this stage to give a publication date
Stick with the NUM NAME submission but just say that the special issue will be published in NUM
NAME
Dear NAME
Thank you for keeping me informed
My comments
the NAME WEBSITE
submission at NAME NUM and acceptance Nov NUM looks quite ambitious to me
once finalized I would be happy to post the CfP in the NAME NAME publish in NAME and in NAME after consultation with the editors
NAME
Here is a draft CfP for a special issue on NAME timed for nd issue NUM
The schedule is quite tight so slipping to rd issue might be advisable
The initial deadline is timed to follow SENSEVAL with a reasonable lag this should help ensure a good number of quality submissions so we do nt want to bring this forward
Please send me comments on wording etc and I ll get back to them so they can proceed to advertise it
NAME
Call for Papers
Journal of NAME NAME
Special Issue on WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION
NAME editors NAME NAME EMAIL NAME NAME EMAIL
The process of automatically determining the meanings of words word sense disambiguation NAME is an important stage in language understanding
It has been shown to be useful for many natural language processing applications including machine translation information retrieval mono and crosslingual corpus analysis summarization and document navigation
The importance of NAME has been acknowledged since the s and the field has recently enjoyed a resurgence of interest including the creation of NAME an evaluation exercise allowing a basic precision recall comparison of participating systems which has been run twice to date
The current availability of large corpora and powerful computing resources has made the exploration of machine learning and statistical methods possible
This is in contrast to the majority of early approaches which relied on handcrafted disambiguation rules
This special issue of NAME NAME due for publication in April NUM is intended to describe the current state of the art in word sense disambiguation
Papers are invited on all aspects of NAME research and especially on
Combinations of methods and knowledge sources
Which methods or knowledge sources complement each other and which provide similar disambiguation information
How should they be combined
Do better disambiguation results justify the extra cost of producing systems which combine multiple techniques or use multiple knowledge sources
Can any method or knowledge source be determined to be better or worse than another
Evaluation of NAME systems
Which metrics are most informative and would new NUM be useful
Can NAME be evaluated in terms of the effect it has on another language processing task for example parsing
Can evaluations using different data sets corpora and lexical resources be compared
Can the cost of producing evaluation data be reduced through the use of automatic methods
Sense distinctions and sense inventories
How do these affect NAME
How does the granularity of the lexicon affect the difficulty of the NAME task
Are some types of sense distinction difficult to distinguish in text
What can be gained from combining sense inventories and how can this be done
The effect of NAME on applications
To what extent does NAME help applications such as machine translation or text retrieval
What kind of disambiguation is most useful for these applications
What is the effect when the disambiguation algorithm makes mistakes
Minimising the need for handtagged data
NAME text is expensive and difficult to obtain while untagged text is plentiful and effectively limitless
What techniques can be used to make use of untagged text would weakly semisupervised learning algorithms be useful
What use can be made of parallel text
Can untagged text be made as useful as disambiguated text
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Re NAME Statistical tests for corpus studies
NAME
NAME will probably not give you what you want nor will loglikelihood my paper on Comparing Corpora NAME NAME Corpus Linguistics NUM explains why
Nonparametric tests are more suitable I found the NAME NAME did the job well
It involves chopping each corpus up into samesize slices
Regards
NAME
NAME NAME wrote
Dear all
As a layman to statistics I wish to get some advice on the tests suitable for comparing the frequency of a specific type of word in corpora of different genre
Having in mind are NAME and NAME but I m not sure they are the appropriate NUM
Thanks in advance
NAME NAME Research Assistant Dept of English and NAME City University of NAME NAME
NAME NAME NAME University of NAME NAME NUM NUM NUM NAME Road NAME NAME NAME NAME fax NUM NUM NUM EMAIL and NAME NAME Ltd NUM NAME Road NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NUM NUM NUM EMAIL
Fwd NAME studentship applications
This is causing some problems I m afraid
The advertising to email lists is generating some disappointed replies when I explain that in fact the closing date for applications was last Monday
Could there be a note saying that applications for October NUM will be accepted from July NUM onwards
Incidentally we have received NUM applications so far and these are those posted by applicants up to early NAME
NUM boxes of applications were received by the NAME on Monday alone
Thanks NAME
NAME
I just received through the ORG email list EMAIL a notice of studentships available for NAME s Computer Speech NAME and NAME Technology graduate course
The website cited March NUM as the deadline but the notice on the ORGlist was dated March NUM and seemed to still be soliciting applications
Are you still accepting applications and are these studentships open to applicants from outside the NAME EU specifically the NAME
If so where can I find application materials and are there any special actions I should take due to this late date
Thank you in advance for your information and help
NAME NAME
Re interpolation
Yeah after thinking about it I came to pretty much the same conclusion
Thanks
CHAR
On NAME NUM NAME NUM NAME NAME wrote
NAME
Re the second mail I sent you just interpolating the log probs I vaguely remember that the log scale represents the amount of bits required for information to be transferred in addition to the property that it scales nicely
So if you are working on this domain you have a good argument to be interpolating directly in that space logs
NAME
On NAME NUM NAME NUM NAME NAME wrote
OK the problem is this
I ve already got log CHAR CHAR and log CHAR CHAR because I m calculating probabilities in log space to avoid underflow
Thus I have to find the equivalent of interpolating in the normal probability space
NAME is that normal interpolation requires addition which does nt have an equivalent in the log space
Thus the only thing I can think of is to scale and convert back to normal probs but this still might cause problems with under overflow if the probabilities are markedly different
Any further ideas I d be grateful
Thanks NAME
NAME
On NAME NUM NAME NUM NAME NAME wrote
Hi
I m not sure but I suspect it would be significantly more difficult in the log space since we CHAR trying to find a components of a log addition
log CHAR CHAR CHAR CHAR CHAR CHAR CHAR in terms of log CHAR and Log CHAR maybe sticky
Will check with the other experts here SMILEY no one around now
Do you not want to convert them back and forth
NAME
On NAME NUM NAME NUM NAME NAME wrote
NAME
How would you interpolate logprobs
ie
NAME CHAR CHAR CHAR NAME CHAR CHAR CHAR in standard probs
in log probs
Any ideas
CHAR
NAME NAME Last call for Research Notes and NAME
NAME NUM
th Conference of the European Chapter of the ORG
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Re NAME NAME
Hi
Thanks a lot for the mail
I would indeed want to take up NAME NAME classification as my project
I will forward my form with this choice accordingly to NAME
I have NAME NAME CHAR CHAR learning book few papers and some NAME code for the classifier which was part of the NAME product but I look forward to discussing the details with you in the next meet before proceeding
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Re parser output on our metonymy data
Hi
thanks a lot for looking at the data
NUM Sorry for misleading you about tokenisation we did leave upper cases in when we parsed what we sent you was a file produced afterwards that included samplenumbers so that the examples can be tracked and was lower cased after parsing and which we used for extraction of the roles but the sentences submitted to the parser had the upper case preserved
I realise now that this was the wrong thing to do and that I forgot to mention this
however the mistakes that you attributed to tokenisation are now all tagging mistakes so that your tagging comments now probably hold for these examples
Thus eg the NAME islands case has the followign tokenisation and then the tagger for whatever reason removes the upper case for Islands
ABSTRACT id SENTENCE WThe NUM WSolomon NUM WIslands NUM Wis NUM Wa NUM Wnew NUM Wnationstate NUM Wwhich NUM Wmay NUM Whave NUM NUM NUM Wcreated NUM Wthrough NUM Wthe NUM Wimposition NUM Wof NUM Wan NUM Warbitrary NUM Wboundary NUM W NUM Wbut NUM Whas NUM Wto NUM Wexist NUM Was NUM Wa NUM Wviable NUM Winstitution NUM Wwithin NUM Wthe NUM Wmodern NUM Wworld NUM CHAR NUM NUM ABSTRACT
Tagger output and parser input
NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME nationstateNN NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME toTO NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME
We also see islands as the head thus if islands would have been parsed as subject we are happy and see the whole country name as a subject role and the parse as correct
Instead of multiword tokenisation we have such a mapping in the role extraction module so we are ok on that
The same holds for the other tokenisation cases that now are all tagging problems eg the NAME NAME example normally the tagger gets this right as a proper name byut in NUM case it did nt
NUM Thanks for the comments about the parse timeout and the tagging thresholding it looks as if this might solve a lot of our cases
NAME weighting might be sensible too as we do mostly care about precision not recall
In cases where grammatical functions are missed we can default to literal baselines which is a very good baseline instead if precision is low we overgenerate metonymies
NUM NAME precision and recall for subjects and objects were only talked about precision at talk as this is more important to us at the moment
NAME CHAR NUM recall NUM thus Fmeasure over NUM as you said
NAME precision NUM recall NUM NAME are rounded
Note that the datasets are very small NUM subjects and NUM objects in our dataset as most country names are pps
Thanks again for all the help
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NAME NAME NAME package in NAME
NAME NAME a new NAME package for ngram analysis is made available at the site
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It is a small and flexible piece of code that comes with a script ngramspl for direct processing of files
I am aware that this is yet another ngram package but it is novel in some ways
References to other packages are included
The man pages for the script and the module are included below
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NAME ngram version help nD typeDcharacter order byfrequency input files
DESCRIPTION This script produces ngrams tables of the input files to the standard ouput
NAME Dover NUM Ditem version
NAME version
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typeDcharacterbyteword Type of ngrams produces
See NAME NAME module
orderbyfrequency By default the ngrams are ordered lexicographipound CHAR cally
If this option is specified then they are ordered by frequency in descending order
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SCRIPT CATEGORIES NAME NAME
NAME ALSO NAME NAME module
NAME NAME NUM NAME NAME WEBSITE
This module is provided as is without expressed or implied warranty
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The latest version can be found at WEBSITE
NAME Text NAME NAME NAME analysis for characters words and more
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use NAME NAME my ng NUM NAME Ngramsnew ngprocesstext abcdefghijklmnop print ngtostring
One can also feed tokens manually
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We can choose ngrams of various sizes eg
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my ng NUM NAME Ngramsnew type NUM byte my ng NUM NAME Ngramsnew type NUM word
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The module Text NAME is very flexible
For example it allows a user to manually feed a sequence of any tokens
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It counts all ngram frequencies up to the maximal specified length
The output format is meant to be pretty much humanreadable while also loadable by the module
The module can be used from the command line through the script the ngramspl manpage provided with the package
OUTPUT FORMAT The output looks like this
BEGIN OUTPUT BY NAME NAME version NUM
GRAMS total count SMILEY a NUM CHAR NUM CHAR NUM CHAR NUM CHAR NUM CHAR NUM CHAR NUM CHAR NUM
GRAMS total count NUM ab NUM bc NUM cd NUM de NUM ef NUM fg NUM gh NUM
GRAMS total count NUM abc NUM bcd NUM cde NUM def NUM efg NUM fgh NUM
NAME OUTPUT BY NAME NAME
Ngrams are encoded using encodeS WEBSITE can always be recognized as CHAR
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BEGIN OUTPUT BY NAME NAME version NUM
GRAMS total count SMILEY The NUM NAME NUM NAME NUM quick NUM
GRAMS total count NUM NAME NUM brownfox NUM brownquick NUM foxbrown NUM quickfox NUM
NAME OUTPUT BY NAME NAME
Or in case of byte type of processing
BEGIN OUTPUT BY NAME NAME version NUM
GRAMS total count NUM CHAR NUM CHAR NUM NUM NUM
NUM CHAR NUM CHAR NUM CHAR NUM etc
GRAMS total count NUM t NUM NAME NUM tb NUM nt NUM NUM
NUM b NUM CHAR NUM CHAR NUM CHAR NUM n NUM NUM NAME NUM br NUM ck NUM CHAR NUM etc
NAME OUTPUT BY NAME NAME
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my ng NUM NAME Ngramsnew my ng NUM NAME Ngramsnew windowsizeD my ng NUM NAME Ngramsnew typeD word and similar
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NAME
windowsize ngram size ie CHAR itself
NAME is NUM if not given
It is stored in object windowsize
type Specifies a predefined type of ngrams
character default NAME character ngrams NAME letters sequences of all other characters are replaced by a space letters are turned uppercase
byte Raw character ngrams Do nt ignore any bytes and do nt preprocess them
word NAME word ngrams NUM token is a word consistpound CHAR ing of letters digits and decimal digit are replaced by NUMBER and everything else is ignored
A space is inserted when ngrams are formed
One can also modify type creating its own type by finetuning several parameters they can be undepound CHAR fined
o tokenseparator string used to be inserted between tokens in ngram for characters it is empty and for words it is a space
o skiprex regular expression for ignoring stuff between tokens
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o processtoken routine for token preprocessing
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This function manually supplies tokens
processtext list of strings
Process text ie break each string into tokens and feed them
processfiles filenames or filehandlereferences
Process files similarly to text
The files are processed line by line so there should not be any multiline tokens
tostring orderby NUM frequency
Produce string representation of the ngram tables
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HISTORY AND RELATED WORK This code originated in my monkeys and rhinos project in NUM and is related to authorship attribution project
Some of the similar projects are NAME can be found at my site
NAME NAME Package in NAME by NAME NAME at NAME
This is a package that includes a script for word ngrams
NAME NAME NAME Package by NAME NAME This is a similar package for character ngrams
As an XSimplementation it is supposed to be very effipound CHAR cient
NAME script ngrampl by NAME NAME This is a script for analyzing character ngrams
NAME NAME NAME Language NAME NAME in C by NAME Peng A ngram language modeling package written in C
BUGS AND LIMITATIONS If a user customizes a type it is possible that a resultpound CHAR ing ngram will be ambiguous
In this way to different ngrams may be counted as one
With predefined types of ngrams this should not happen
For example if a user chooses that a token can contain a space and uses space as an ngram separator then a tripound CHAR NAME like this CHAR CHAR CHAR CHAR is ambiguous
AUTHOR NAME NUM NAME NAME WEBSITE
This module is provided as is without expressed or implied warranty
This is free software you can redispound CHAR tribute it and or modify it under the same terms as NAME itself
The latest version can be found at WEBSITE
NAME ALSO NAME NAME Package in NAME by NAME NAME at NAME NAME NAME NAME Language NAME NAME in C by NAME NAME NAME script ngrampl by NAME NAME NAME NAME s Text NAME module in NAME
The links should be available at WEBSITE
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Thanks for your replies
A question now if you allow me
In a very large number of cases I see that the tokenizer has returned words for which the lemma is ended by a backslash among others when the words are in capitals in a title
Is that something that comes from the original data or is it a meaningful indication of some linguistic feature about that word
In other words can I safely delete any trailing in lemmas
Another question related
In a first attempt at creating a database I modified all lemmas to have them lowercase so as to avoid having duplicate lemmas
However I ve started thinking that the case information is important for proper names and so on
NAME among all the cases of capital letters there are NUM types meaningful cases proper nouns with leading capital acronyms with more than NUM capital or only capital letters and the meaningless NUM as far as semantics is concerned Initial word in a sentence with leading capital titles and other highlighted words with only capital letters
When the first type is interesting to have in the NAME the second is not
Unfortunately it is impossible to distinguish the cases
What do you think is best then
NAME all information or keeping all cases as in the original data
Thanks in advance
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Automatic summarization and question answering aim at producing a concise condensed representation of the key information content in an information source for a particular user and task
Interest in automatic summarization and question answering continues to grow motivated by the explosion of online information sources and advances in natural language processing and information retrieval
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Dear colleagues I do not know the history of corporate involvement by the NAME in public issues of language use and language politics further back than NUM
However I agree with NAME NAME and NAME NAME in regretting the public position taken by some of the past presidents of NAME on the matter of NAME s boycott or rather in regretting the manner of taking it
I do nt think it matters that my dues are not currently paid up as it is clearly the general intention of the NAME to represent NAME in NAME
I would be very surprised if members of the mass media did not take the letter in question as NAME facto representing majority opinion in the linguistics community no matter how carefully the authors qualify their undoubtedly honourable intentions since such qualifications are exactly the sort of thing that gets overlooked by nonacademics in general and the media in particular
In that respect I very much appreciated April NAME s stance in refusing to endorse the letter without formal support from the membership
It s not clear to me from reading the past presidents letter why they felt it necessary to go forward without securing such support or perhaps discovering its absence
The NAME affair has been reported for some months now and the letter does not appear to highlight any radically new or timesensitive developments
It s also not clear to me what committee April s letter refers to some of this may be down to my ignorance of developments at the last meeting
I am however familiar with the participation of the Linguistic Society of NAME in matters of public interest concerning language over the last NUM years
While the NAME has not always been effective or unproblematic in its approach it has generally sought member approval in an organised fashion for statements and resolutions sometimes as in the NAME case within a few weeks after significant events occurred
More importantly in recent years it has voiced corporate opinion primarily on issues in which NAME are significantly united and which fall under our professional remit such as the harmful misconceptions underlying the EnglishOnly movement NUM the protection of basic language rights NUM the systematicity of African American English and the pedagogical soundness of the NAME school system s approach in the Ebonics controversy NUM the academic effectiveness of bilingual education NUM and the adequacy of signed languages NUM
See webpage at WEBSITE these cases the burden for summarising research and drafting a statement for presentation to the membership has indeed fallen on NUM individual as in the contrasting case NAME describes but it is then handled through the Committee on Social and Political Concerns in a regular way
Perhaps some such more elaborated structure might be useful for NAME in view of the concerns that members have voiced
The issues of academic freedom raised in the past presidents letter are indeed important NUM for all academics but I cannot see that there is anything linguistic about them other than the content of the journal in question which has not surfaced as an issue in any of the reports I have seen
It thus seems fair to clarify why NAME should collectively address this issue and similar NUM which may arise in future and how this can best be done
Sincerely
NAME CHAR NAME Dept of Language and NAME University of NAME EMAIL
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NAME
I m having trouble creating a resource file for NAME WEBSITE The command is
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When I try the following in NAME NAME
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I get the following error
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The same happens in NAME NAME NAME
Does anybody have any tips
I have nt been able to contact the author
thanks
cheers NAME
Dr NAME Berber NAME NAME NAME SP Catholic University of NAME NAME NAME EMAIL NAME website
some thoughts on NAME project workplans
I ve received some of these some initial thoughts changes for next year
Please can it be made a requirement that workplans mention the name email of the supervisor so I know who to ask for further clarification if necessary
As it is I m going to have to ask you separate email to follow
None of them that have asked for bulk space have taken on the distinction between backedup and nonbackedup space which means I m going to have to ask which they need
As NAME has now moved all their accounts onto the NAME they each now have a homespace NAME of M backed up so I am ignoring all requests for an extra NUM or M
NAME about this standard allocation will also need to be updated by next year
ckh
rasp
the nightmare continues
I ve been hacking around with the exclusion list feature and I ve come up with the following
Do nt know whether you know this stuff already NAME but if you do nt it might save you some time
The tagger exclusion list
must use the CHAR flag after CHAR and before CHAR CHAR I think when invoking
exclusion list MUST be in the same format as the lexicon ie NAME NAME CHAR tag CHAR
where CHAR is the number of words in the exclusion list
This is of course rather silly because the tags are totally redundant as far as I can see
the excluded words ARE NOT output along with the other tags rather just the symbol is output making the whole thing somewhat pointless for my purposes
Anything you know about this that I do nt I m all ears
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NAME
shell
Hi
I ve been trying to find a satisfactory way of doing the following for a few weeks but have not been able to come up with an answer
If you can help I would be very grateful
I have a shell script containing the following lines
bin csh
if argv
NUM then NAME Usage scr dirsfile file extension to apply to ie man exit NUM endif
set ext NUM set dirs cat NUM perl CHAR CHAR s CHAR ext CHAR
where the NUM and ext are script variables
The problem is of course that ext gets interpretted as a perl variable I assume because it is within single quotes and therefore untouched by the shell script interpretter
I want a method of forcing ext to be expanded by the shell before it gets passed to perl
Regards
NAME
Re Leaving party
Good news
See you both Saturday
NAME
Just to let you know we have a babysitter so shld be along around pm
look forward to it
NAME
Hi
Hi CHAR
How s work going
Did you get that enumeration algorithm working
I ve got some quite good results now am running tests and have just started experimenting with trigrams
Soon
CHAR
NAME NAME
I have put a list of this term s speakers on the website
WEBSITE
Mostly the titles are still unknown
Please let me know if I ve done anything stupid or if you want to invite somebody for the empty slot
Thanks
NAME
NAME NAME NAME Exact tests
Hi everybody
Nearly NUM weeks ago I posted the following query to this list
For a current project involving collocations a colleague and I need to compute several hundreds of FE tests some of which involve very high marginal totals even though the cooccurrence frequencies are very small
The question now is do you happen to know of any NAME NAME NAME software that can cope with the enormous sizes of the resulting figures
An example NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM
Some scripts on the web seemed to do the job but on second looks the results seemd wrong because transforming tables along the main diagonal with such high figures lead to different results inviting the inference that the scripts only computed approximations Any idea CHAR
I thank the following people for their advice NAME NAME who suggested programming the test in NAME or MAPLE NAME NAME NAME who directed me to versions of NAME like Allegro common lisp I believe but NOT the lisp used to implement the NAME editor which can handle integers with large infinite numbers of digits NAME NAME who proposed the Scheme programming language see WEBSITE NAME EMAIL who suggested to use NAME
In the meantime I have also myself also come across CHAR see WEBSITE and also seems capable of handling the extremely large numbers mentioned above
My thanks to all who contributed and best wishes for a happy new year
NAME
NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME University WEBSITE
Re NAME
A possible topic I was thinking of is anaphora resolution in modern greek
Before applying officially do I have to have already discussed and agreeed my topic with a potential supervisor
In your website it is mentioned that there is a deadline for phd applications which is March st
Would I have to come and see you sometime before that deadline
I am coming in uk on April st for my congregation ceremony though
Thanks for your time
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Your background sounds ideal and wld in principle be enough for acceptance
Whether I wld be the right supervisor wld depend on the topic
However if you want to work in computational linguistics nlprelated information retrieval text mining the chances are that NUM of the NUM of us here wld be appropriate
I suggest you apply officially and include a short description of your research topic
best
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I use NAME Mail for all of my public accounts
The latest stable version has a NAME filter that is not as good as NAME Assassin but better than nothing
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WEBSITE which has NAME installed and that works great
I have it set up to insert a tag in my subject line and have an ORG rule that sorts all mail with that tag into a folder
I scan through the subject lines in that folder at erratic intervals and rescue any false positives
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I ve written Outlook NAME rules which capture some spam but find it tedious to keep them up to date
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A letter on behalf of the association sounds like a very good idea
NAME NAME Bo rjars NAME NUM NUM NUM NUM Department of NAME NAME NUM NUM NUM NUM University of NAME email EMAIL NAME NAME NAME Visit our webpage UK WEBSITE
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Dear NAME NAME NAME locals in NAME
Friday December NUM you are expected for the festivities surrounding the promotion of NAME
I ll give you a short overview of the day
For location of campus and buildings WEBSITE
NUM NUM we are all expected at the NAME of the University Building CHAR near the NAME entrance building CHAR the tallest building on campus
We will have some time then to decide on the order of the questions compare questions and change for the professors into gowns
By the way you may want to hint about your questions to NAME directly this is rather common but not obligatory
Given that there is nt a lot of time I would propose to meet there a bit earlier eg between NUM and NUM
NUM NUM sharp the ceremony starts everybody will have some time for questions
NUM NUM sharp question time is over and the committee retreats to decide whether NAME has done a good job and sign the diploma
Then we return announce the degree there is a short laudatio and then a reception outside the NAME
Perhaps we could have lunch together afterwards
NAME has a list of hotels you could use to book a room if you are coming the day before NAME already booked and I assume NAME will too
I have to be in NAME the th so wo nt be in NAME until the day of the promotion but I am available on Friday afternoon and evening if anyone is still around
NAME and or NAME may be available Thursday evening as well
Let me or NAME know if you need assistance in arranging things
For the international committee members your travel and hotel costs will be refunded after the visit
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Re NAME corpus
Hi NAME
I do nt think I m going to be able to incorporate the NAME corpus into mine as it contains only numeric attribute data
NAME
On Mon NUM NAME NUM NAME NAME wrote
You may want to contact this guy
The NAME guy s corpus is at
NUM k labelled emails k spam WEBSITE
NAME MEAD multidocument summarization environment
MEAD NAME released
WEBSITE
NAME is a multidocument summarization system with multilingual capabilities
The NAME system implements extractive summarization whereby summaries are produced by selecting a subset of highly relevant sentences from the cluster s overall set of sentences
NAME can summarize clusters of English documents on most POSIXconforming operating systems and can summarize clusters of NAME Chinese documents on a subset of these operating systems
The NAME system has been under development since NUM
Versions NUM and NUM were developed at the University of NAME
Version NUM was developed at a sixweek workshop at the NAME NAME University
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The current version supports all the functionality of previous versions but also has many new features
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It allows for both systemwide and userspecific configuration files
It has a simplified user interface
Previous versions required the user to manually edit a meadconfig file and use a combination of NAME shell commands to produce summaries
While the current version still supports this interface MEAD NUM has a single script interface that essentially eliminates the need for manual editing of meadconfig files
NAME NAME a previously freestanding tool for evaluating summarizers has been incorporated with the current version of NAME
This allows users to evaluate existing summaizers as well as evaluate the performance of the base MEAD system and any user modifications
MEAD NAME supports coselection percent agreement precision recall NAME and contentbased evaluation metrics such as word overlap and longest common subsequence as well as relative utility
NAME uses an extensive collection of custom NAME modules that may be suitable for use in many natural language applications including for example question answering
NAME and leadbased summarizers have been incorporated into the NAME framework
These summarizers provide useful examples of how to create new NAME modules
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To download NAME including documentation and view online docs visit WEBSITE
People who have worked on NAME include
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Re Project selection
Thanks NAME
That sounds fine
See you then
NAME
On Mon NUM NAME NUM NAME NAME wrote
I m interested in doing one of your projects is it a good idea to meet and discuss possibilities before the submission deadline on Friday
If so would you mind letting me know when you re available
Also I d like to discuss furtherstudy possibilities with you at some point anyway
how about NAME aft as a break from the practical
I ll be free from pmish and here til pmish ask reception to phone me
NAME
NAME Corpus Sanitation
Dear All
I was interested to read in the recent posting to the list by NAME NAME see below that he was uncertain as to whether he should make his corpus publicly available because it contained some uncensored words NAME s point NUM
I guess that this means bad language I assume it does not relate to anonymization issues as they are covered in NAME s point NUM If this is about bleeping out words in corpora should nt we encourage NAME not to do this
Surely we want corpora to contain uncensored speech
The point for me of using corpora is to describe account for language as it is rather than language as we wish it to be
Best
NAME
Dear all
I got several responses asking if I am planning to make my question list public
I think I should answer this question to the whole list
I am willing to make it public but I am not sure if I should do it right now
Here are the reasons
NUM Some questions ask information about specific people not only celebrities but also probably the questioners or other people with very close relationships to the questioners
This may raise some privacy issues
I prefer to take off these questions before make the question corpus public
NUM Some questions actually not a small number contain some uncensored words
I think these questions are improper to be in a corpus
NUM Many questions are not grammatically correct or with some spell errors
I personally think this is ok becaues the questions are from real world
I do nt know what other researchers think about this
NUM Different researchers may have different expections
For example the original poster of this thread required why and how questions other people have asked about statistic information on specific phrase groups
I would like to know if there are some common requirements from most or many researchers
NUM After I do something to the question archive and make it public I am thinking of updating the public question corpus time to time
More efforts have to take and I am not sure if I have enough energy to do this
I hope some NUM is willing to join me
I am waiting for your inputs
Especially if you are willing to do something for building the corpus I am happy to work with you
Many thanks
NAME
NAME Wed NUM NAME NUM NAME NAME wrote
Dear NAME and others
I have a big corpus which contains over NAME unique questions collected from real world users by my AnswerBus Question Answering System WEBSITE based on the data together with other people who have the same interest
NAME
NAME Wed NUM NAME NUM NAME wrote
Dear all
I am doing some work to find the answer patterns to help automatic answering some complex questions which ask for a complex answer
I first focus on whyquestions and howquestions
So I am eager to find some corpora that contains large amount of this NUM types of questions and corresponding answers
Does anyone know where I can find this kind of corpora or related resources
NAME about other complex questions and answers beyond why and howquestions are also welcome
THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH
NAME NAME
Re perl lib modules
How about installing the perlSOAPLite and NAME NAME on bantu to start with
then I ll check everything works and get back to you
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word simplification project for NAME NAME
Here s the tentative idea I ve got comments would be very welcome
NAME
NUM use CIDE or NAME as a resource learner s dictionaries so some guarantee that we ll get good words in the defns unlike NAME
NUM concentrate on monosemous verbs
Rationale do nt want to do NAME should be enough to be interesting for an expt monosemous verbs tend to be the less frequent NUM hence NUM we want to simplify
A future project could do NAME if this works
NUM Analyse the CIDE NAME definitions for the target verbs to find the candidate substitutable terms
I am not sure whether this will be too difficult or not
The idea would be that if you had a definition like CIDE s
extinguish to stop a fire or light burning
you d want to get something like
stop NAME burning
it might be necessary to handle disjunctions as alternatives
extirpate to remove or destroy something completely
remove NAME completely destroy NAME completely
My guess is that there are a reasonable number of cases where this is nt too hard especially if you wrote patterns that depended on verb class possibly something close has been done already
NUM NAME parse the input text so that the substitution could be made ignoring it if it there is nt a clear match
eg the rain extinguished the fire NAME extinguish fire etc
the rain stopped the fire burning
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eg stop the fire burning you d be looking to see whether NAME stop fire occurred elsewhere in some large corpus NAME using NAME s database maybe
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Re campfest
does that mean I ca nt call the fire brigade until your here
No you ca nt
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We are in the process of converting our corpus of transcribed academic speech from NAME to NAME and adding additional NAME
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Within the NAME guidelines P we ve found some suggestions for the NAME tagging but nothing yet for something like our pragmatic categories eg
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But somehow this seems a bit more verbose than it needs to be
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It is standard
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What you propose seems to be a fitting end to the book and sounds very good
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NAME NAME
BC NAME TYPE LOCATION PEARLHARBOR ENAMEXHNS
NAME TYPE PERSON BCPEARLHARBORHNS NUM
NAME interprets whole thing as NUM word which is not in the lexcison so best NAME can do is say it s all NUM proper noun which then gets tagged as name PERSON
NAME TYPEDATE NUM
NUM
NAME NAME NAME only recognises this format as a num not date
T NUM Tph np NP num NAME
NAME TYPE LOCATION PEARL HARBOR NUM
PEARL HARBOR
Untagged
Occurs in a capitalised partially grammatical sentence interpreted as
NP nnamenp N nnamenname BCPEARLHARBORHNS NAME N CHAR PENTAGON NAME NP nplu N CHAR BLOCKs NAME V vinf MOVE NAME V tobse TO NAME V vnp PROMOTE NAME T nplmta NP nplu N nn PEARL NAME N nn HARBOR NAME N CHAR COMMANDERs NAME
in lexicon
harbored NUM NAME NUM harbors NUM NN NUM harbour NUM NN NUM VV NUM harbouring NUM NAME NUM harbours NUM NN NUM
Harbour NUM NNL NUM Harbor NUM NNL NUM
ie NAME does nt recognise HARBOR as a locative noun since it treats the capitlaised word as being all lowercase
NAME TYPE ORGANIZATION NAME NAME NAME NAME Service NUM
NAME TYPE PERSON NAME NUM NAME TYPE PERSON NAME NUM NAME TYPE PERSON NAME NUM News Service
Tph pp PP p P pn For NAME N npp N CHAR use NAME PP p P pnp by NAME NP nplu N nnamen NAME NAME N nnamen NAME NAME N nnamen NAME NAME N nn News NAME N nn Service NAME N CHAR clients NAME NUM
NUM example where NAME gets the bracketing wrong
However even if the bracketing was right the only entry for Service in the lexicon is
Service NUM NN NUM
ie it will never get tagged as a NAME org so nothing would be tagged as an ORGANIZATION
NAME TYPE PERSON CHARLES NAME NAME NUM
NAME TYPE PERSON CHARLES NUM NAME TYPE PERSON J NUM NAME TYPE PERSON LEWIS NUM
Again the bracketing is all wrong so we get NUM single cases of name
PERSON instead of one
c NAME TYPEDATE NUM
c NUM
Untagged because the tokeniser has nt split the year into its own word
N nn NAME NAME N nnamen Hearst NAME N CHAR Newspapers NAME
NAME TYPE ORGANIZATION Hearst Newspapers NUM
NAME TYPE PERSON Hearst NUM NAME
newspaper NUM NN NUM newspaper s NUM NN NUM newspaperpackets NUM NN NUM newspapermen NUM NN NUM newspapers NUM NN NUM
No lexicon entry for Newspaper inclusing as a NAME otherwise presumably the whole N would be tagged org ORGANIZATION
NAME TYPE LOCATION NAME NUM NAME The NAME TYPE ORGANIZATION NAME NUM has denied a request that top NAME TYPE LOCATION NAME NUM commanders in NAME TYPE LOCATION NAME NUM in NAME TYPEDATE NUM be absolved of blame for failing to be on alert for the Japanese attack on NAME TYPE LOCATION NAME Harbor NUM but the military agreed that top NAME TYPE LOCATION NAME NUM officials also must share the blame
All of these are untagged since NAME ca nt come up with a parse tree not even a CHAR fragx for this sentence
NAME TYPE ORGANIZATION NAME NUM
Untagged since lexcison entry is
NAME NUM NN NUM NP NUM
ie never a NAME
Rear Admiral NAME NAME TYPE PERSON E
NAME NUM
Rear Admiral NAME TYPE PERSON Husband NAME NAME NUM
So close
Lexicon entries
Admiral NUM NNSB NUM Admirals NUM NNSB NUM NAME NUM NP NUM RearAdmiral NUM NNSB NUM ViceAdmiral NUM NNSB NUM
NAME NUM NP NUM NAME NUM NP NUM
NP NUM both NAME N CHAR Rear NAME NP npnpcoord NP npretitnname Admiral NAME N nnamenname Husband NAME N nnamenname E NAME N CHAR Kimmel NAME
ie since NAME is nt cannot be interpreted as a NAME it is bracketed with the name N not the title and tagged as a name PERSON
his NAME TYPE ORGANIZATION Army NUM counterpart NAME
Gen
NAME TYPE PERSON NAME NAME NAME NUM
his NAME TYPE ORGANIZATION Army NUM counterpart NAME TYPE PERSON NAME NUM
Gen
NAME TYPE PERSON NAME CHAR NAME NUM
NAME tokenisation so NAME treats as NUM sentences
NP nppcocj NP detn his APP N norgn Army NAME N CHAR counterpart NAME NAME NP nnname N CHAR NAME NAME
followed by
T NUM Tph n N CHAR Gen NAME
and
NP nnname N nnamenname NAME NAME N nnamenname C NAME N CHAR NAME NAME
However NAME is tagged as a NP since no lexicon for the abbreviation for NAME NAME NUM NNS NUM NNSB NUM NP NUM MajorGeneral NUM NNSB NUM NAME NUM NP NUM NAME NUM NP NUM SergeantMajor NUM NNSB NUM
Otherwise NAME does okay bracketing and tagging both Army and NAME NAME NAME correctly
leading up to the NAME TYPEDATE NAME
NUM NUM NUM debacle
leading up to the NAME TYPE TIME NAME
NUM NUM NUM debacle
The bracketing is slightly wrong here only NAME of punctuation
N CHAR N nntn N nntnpnum NAME NAME NP num T nlmtar NAME NAME Taph CHAR NUM Tph np NP num NAME NAME NUM debacle NAME
Why is the comma included as part of the N
Also NAME tags it as a TIME not DATE since it recognises Dec as a month so classifies it as a temporal expression but has nt applied its date rule
NAME NAME date N NAME TEMP N NAME NAME H
Why not
NAME applies it here
P pnpntOn NAME NP date January NAME NP num NAME NAME
which is also a NAME followed by a NP num
NAME TYPE LOCATION NAME NUM
NAME TYPE PERSON NAME NUM
Perfect bracketing but NAME is not in the lexicon as a NNL so NAME guesses name PERSON
NAME NUM NP NUM NAME NUM NP NUM
in the direction of NAME TYPE PERSON Kimmel ENAMEXs and NAME TYPE PERSON NAME ENAMEXs advocates by criticizing top NAME TYPE ORGANIZATION Na vy NUM and NAME TYPE ORGANIZATION Army NUM officials in NAME TYPE LOCATION NAME NUM for being neither energetic nor effective in getting warnings to NAME TYPE LOCATION NAME NUM about alarming intelligence reports that CHAR NAME TYPE LOCATION NAME ENAMEXJapanese rupture was just hours away
in the direction of NAME TYPE PERSON NAME s and NAME s advocates by criticizing top Navy and Army officials in NAME for being neither energetic nor effective in getting warnings to NAME about alarming intelligence reports that a NAME Japanese rupture was just hours away NUM
The bracketing is way off here
P pnpname of NAME NP npnpcoord NP npnpossellipr NP nnname N CHAR Kimmel NAME CHAR NUM SMILEY NP cjendnp and NAME NP nppossn NP npnposs NP nnname N CHAR NAME NAME CHAR NUM SMILEY N npp N CHAR advocates NAME PP p P ping by NAME V vppp V vppp V vn criticizeing NAME N nncoord N CHAR top NAME N nncoord N CHAR Navy NAME N cjendn and NAME N norgn Army NAME N CHAR officials NAME PP p P pnpname in NAME NP nnname N CHAR NAME NAME PP p P ping for NAME V vppp V beap being NAME AP apapcoord AP a A adva AP a A a neither NAME A a energetic NAME AP cjendap nor NAME AP a A a effective NAME
etc
so NAME misses tagging other potential entities eg it would have correctly tagged Army as ORGANIZATION
But it would have missed tagging Navy likewise dewspite it s being tagged NAME
Why does the org tag not appear here
N nncoord N CHAR Navy NAME
NAME TYPE LOCATION NAME Harbor NUM
NAME TYPE LOCATION NAME Harbor NUM
NAME
NAME TYPE LOCATION NAME NUM
NAME TYPE PERSON NAME NUM
As for NAME
NAME TYPE LOCATION NAME NUM
NAME TYPE PERSON US NUM
As for NAME
NAME NUM NP NUM NAME NUM NP NUM NAME NUM NP NUM NAME NUM NP NUM NAME
NUM NP NUM
NAME TYPE PERSON NAME NAME NUM
NAME TYPE PERSON NAME NAME NUM
Perfect
secretary of NAME TYPE ORGANIZATION defense NUM for
secretary of defense for
Untagged but I think this is a slightly dodgy classification by the annotators
absolve Admiral NAME TYPE PERSON Kimmel NUM and General NAME TYPE PERSON NAME NUM of accountability
absolve NAME TYPE PERSON Admiral NAME NUM and NAME TYPE PERSON General NAME of accountability NUM
The bracketing s wrong again
V vnpname absolve NAME NP npretitnname Admiral NAME N CHAR Kimmel NAME
NAME correctly identifies Admiral as a title part of a name but then classifies the whole thing as a name PERSON rather than just the following name
This is more a reflection on my choise of mapping to NAME classifications though
On the other hand NAME definitely should nt have bracketed of accountability together with the rest of the name and has mistagged General as an adjective presumably because also of the incorrect bracketing
NP nnname N apn AP a A a General NAME N nppof NAME NAME PP p P pn of NAME N CHAR accountability NAME
General NUM NAME NUM NNS NUM NNSB NUM
the NAME report said
the NAME TYPE PERSON Dorn NUM report said
Here NAME has tagged CHAR the part of report named after a person as a PERSON
Again I think this is a bit of a grey area especially since
the NAME TYPE PERSON Kimmel NUM family
is counted as a PERSON which NAME also tags
the NAME TYPE PERSON Kimmel NUM family
chairman of the NAME TYPE ORGANIZATION NAME Armed Services Committee NUM
chairman of NAME TYPE PERSON the NAME NUM NAME TYPE ORGANIZATION Armed Services Committee NUM
Incorrect bracketing
P pnpname of NAME NP detn the NAME N CHAR NAME NAME N nnorg N apn AP a A a Armed NAME N CHAR Services NAME Committee NAME
But since Committee is tagged NAME if the bracketing was correct the classification would have been correct
of NAME TYPEDATE last year TIMEXs
of NAME TYPE TIME last year TIMEXs
Perfect bracketing despite punctuation
But again the date rule has nt been applied
NAME TYPEDATE th anniversary of the end of NAME War NUM NUM
th anniversary of the end of NAME War NUM
Untagged
The lexicon entry for anniversary is
anniversary NUM NN NUM
So no part of the fragment is classified as any sort of temporal expression
NAME TYPE PERSON Kimmel NUM and NAME TYPE PERSON NAME NUM
NAME TYPE PERSON Kimmel and NAME NUM
Incorrect bracketing
NP nnname N nncoord N CHAR Kimmel NAME N cjendn and NAME N CHAR NAME NAME
NAME TYPEDATE early in NUM NUM
early in NUM
NAME misses this date altogether since there is no temporal noun around so just tags it as a num
P pnpnum in NAME NP num NAME NAME
NAME TYPE PERSON NAME NAME NAME NUM NUM of Admiral NAME TYPE PERSON NAME ENAMEXs NUM surviving sons and a leader of the campaign to exonerate his father said the NAME report confirms the assertions of the NAME TYPE PERSON NAME NUM and NAME TYPE PERSON NAME NUM families that the responsibility should be broadly shared and not placed on the shoulders of NAME TYPE PERSON NAME NUM and NAME TYPE PERSON NAME NUM exclusively
NAME TYPE PERSON NAME NAME NAME NUM NUM of Admiral NAME TYPE PERSON NAME ENAMEXs NUM surviving sons and a leader of the campaign to exonerate his father said the NAME TYPE PERSON NAME NUM report confirms the assertions of NAME TYPE PERSON the NAME and NAME families that the responsibility should be broadly shared and not placed on the shoulders of NAME and NAME exclusively NUM
The bracketing is totally wrong for the last part of the sentence
P pnpname of NAME NP detn the NAME N nncoord N CHAR NAME NAME N cjendn and NAME N nnamen NAME NAME N ns NAME NAME S comp that NAME S npvp NP detn the NAME N CHAR responsibility NAME V vpvpcoordr V modalbse should NAME V beppart be NAME AP a A a broadly NAME V CHAR shareed NAME V cjendvp and NAME V vpadvp V vppp V notvp not NAME V CHAR placeed NAME PP p P pnp on NAME NP detn the NAME N nppof shoulders NAME PP p P pnpname of NAME NP nnname N nncoord N CHAR NAME NAME N cjendn and NAME N CHAR NAME NAME AP a A a exclusively NAME
NAME TYPE ORGANIZATION Navy NUM and NAME TYPE ORGANIZATION Army NUM officials
NAME TYPE ORGANIZATION Navy and Army NUM officials
Incorrect bracketing again
N norgn N nncoord Navy NAME N cjendn and NAME Army NAME N CHAR officials NAME
in NAME TYPE LOCATION NAME NUM and NAME TYPE LOCATION Southeast NAME NUM
in NAME TYPE PERSON NAME and Southeast NUM NAME TYPE PERSON NAME NUM
Incorrect bracketing
NP nnname N nncoord N CHAR NAME NAME N cjendn and NAME N CHAR Southeast NAME NP nnname N CHAR NAME NAME
NAME TYPE LOCATION NAME NUM and the freezing of Japanese assets in the NAME TYPEDATE summer of NUM NUM
NAME TYPE PERSON NAME and the freezing of Japanese assets in the summer of NUM NUM
And again
P pnpname to NAME NP npnpcoord NP nnname N CHAR NAME NAME NP cjendnp and NAME NP detn the NAME N nppof freezing NAME PP p P pnp of NAME NP nplu N npp N apn AP a A a Japanese NAME N CHAR assets NAME PP p P pnp in NAME NP detn the NAME N nppof summer NAME PP p P pnpnum of NAME NP num NAME NAME
NAME has nt been tagged as NAME although it s in the lexicon entry
summer NUM NN NUM NNT NUM
so the temporal expression would nt have been picked up anyway whether as a DATE or TIME
sent NUM days before
sent NUM NAME TYPE TIME days NUM before
NAME has picked up that days is a temporal noun tagging it as a TIME
However the NAME task definition does not include relative temporal expressions
Presumnably if it did the bracketing would be wrong
NAME TYPE LOCATION United States NUM and NAME TYPE LOCATION NAME NUM
NAME NAME and NAME
N apn AP a A a United NAME N CHAR States NAME N cjendn and NAME N CHAR NAME NAME
I m not sure why NAME does nt at least pick these up as names
in NAME TYPEDATE late November NUM to be on the alert against a possible attack
late NAME TYPE TIME November to be on the alert against a possible attack NUM
NAME bracketing
N ninf November NAME V tobse to NAME V bepp be NAME PP p P pnp on NAME NP detn the NAME N npp N CHAR alert NAME PP p P pnp against NAME NP detn a NAME N apn AP a A a possible NAME N CHAR attack NAME
The late is bracketed as part of an earlier NAME
PP p P pa in NAME late NAME
NAME Course on Language Evolution and NAME
Apologies for multiple copies
Please forward to anyone you think might be interested
Note the deadline for abstracts is at the end of NAME
Language Evolution and NAME Workshop Course at the European NAME School in Logic Language and Information NAME
NAME NUM NAME NUM Workshop NAME NUM NAME NUM
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As part of the European NAME School in Logic Language and Information to be held in NAME there will be a workshop course on computational approaches to language evolution
More details can be found at the website
At this stage we are looking for submissions by email in the form of long abstracts up to NUM pages
Upon acceptance we will request longer papers for a proceedings volume
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All participants must register for NAME at a reduced rate for those presenting a paper and find their own funding for travel and accommodation
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Re seminar
NAME
As NAME said I m temporarily running the seminars
Your host will be NAME which means she will CHAR receive you and help you get set up CHAR introduce you in the seminar CHAR organise lunch and meetings with people in the afternoon assuming you can stay for a while
Can you let us know what equipment you need and how long you will be staying
looking forward to your visit
NAME
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hi NAME seminars start at noon
NAME is organising the seminars while CHAR m on maternity leave CHAR m copying this to him
what we usually do is have a designated host who will organise meetings etc perhaps NAME can let you know who it is
CHAR m going to come to the seminar baby permitting would you like to meet for coffee late breakfast before the seminar
looking forward to your visit
NAME
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NAME
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Re NAME
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NAME its ok if her work is delayed a bit
advaith
NAME Tuesday June NUM NAME NAME
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NAME university and the lighthouse media centre
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On Tuesday NUM June NAME NAME NAME author of Digital Biology and editor of Evolutionary Design by NAME will be talking at NAME on
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Re trecqa
I sort of get the feeling we ll want to reparse next year for multiple reasons
let s just have a deadline for it
I suggest NAME NUM for the parses and NAME NUM for the NAME
NAME
Re NAME NAME and hyponym
Hi NAME
These NUM are very wellknown
Watch out for their synset distinctions when comparing to conventional dictionaries
NAME free WEBSITE
NAME not free for languages other than Spanish WEBSITE
NAME regards
NAME
On Thursday NUM April NUM NUM NUM NAME NAME wrote
Dear group
I will soon work on hyperonyms and hyponyms
Does anyone know a free lexicon or a free dictionnary that represents this kind of distinction
The languages that I study are French and English but any information on other languages are welcomed
Thank you Yours NAME NAME NAME NAME University
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Re Examination of NAME NAME
What I heard at the meeting I went to at ORG a couple of months ago was that the main reason for this move is the problem with appeals on the my supervisor hated me grounds
NUM of people who fail NAME now appeal across the university as a whole and this is one of the most popular complaints
Also there s some NAME guidelines I think I have a copy somewhere and can probably find it if required
What I said to NAME Friday at the meeting was that there were too few of us to do this and NAME the dissertations properly the response was something along the lines of well see what the board decides and take it from there
When NAME is on sabbatical next year all language dissertations will presumably have to be marked by NAME or me and NUM marker from Engineering my feeling is that we should just say we believe this could compromise marking standards and see what happens
I do nt think personally that the supervisor involvement question is the main issue but the difficulty of marking a researchbased thesis which is totally outside one s area of expertise I do nt feel that we should accept a situation where both markers could be largely unaware of the prior research
NAME
DDLBETA policies
NAME NAME listmarm stuff I m afraid
NUM Please remember that when you reply to a message from NAME the reply goes to everyone on the list
If your intention is to reply only to the poster you must explicitly use their address
We ve tried both ways of configuring the list in the past and this one favors discussion but also requires care in using the list
Again I d love to know of a smart automoderation system
NUM Absent a sudden burst of NAME competence the official language of the mailing list is English
And the official character set is NAME
NUM Please keep discussions on the topic of text classification
You d be amazed at how few irrelevant messages are necessary to start a rash of people asking to be removed
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Re Fwd Please find attached the amended advert hope NAME got itcorrect this time
I think the NAME Panel will have an extended closing date for the NAME NAME applications I would suggest July NUM
The ORG are fairly adamant that applications for the NAME NAME however should have been in by March NUM simply to prevent the problems they and Colleges had last year in finding College places and accommodation
Colleges have asked departments to look for an overall reduction in places of some NUM this year not a lot of good for NAME NAME programs trying to expand or get off the ground
Thanks NAME
It is up to the admissions officers to decide on whether this is a good use of the advertising budget
It probably is nt if you plan to tell respondees that it is too late to apply this year
We have nt had a hard deadline of NUM NUM for the NAME ever and it would be a mistake to introduce one now
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First Call for Papers
NAME NUM
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NAME NUM will be the seventh in a series of workshops that aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence formal semantics and pragmatics computational linguistics philosophy and psychology
We invite abstracts on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues including but not limited to
models of common ground mutual belief in communication
modelling agents information states and how they get updated
multiagent models and turntaking
goals intentions and commitments in communication
semantic interpretation in dialogues
reference in dialogues
dialogue and discourse structure
interpretation of questions and answers
nonlinguistic interaction in communication
natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems
multimodal dialogue systems
dialogue management in practical implementations
categorisation of dialogue moves or speech acts in corpora
designing and evaluating dialogue systems
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Authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract of at most NUM singlecolumn pages for talks with a duration of NUM plus NUM discussion together with a separate page specifying the authors names affiliation address and email address
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NAME have to be in English which is the workshop language
For the accepted talks a LaTeX style will be made available for the preparation of the final version
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moving nlgrp diskspace
NAME is proposing to move the nlgrp diskspace to NAME on Sunday early morning
It would be a good idea to avoid accessing this space while this is going on so if anyone is planning on working then or more likely I assume has a batch job that has to run then which might be affected please could you let me and NAME know so we can sort out an alternative time
If you do nt hear anything further please just avoid running anything which has to write to this filespace usr groups corpora usr groups mphil etc etc early on Sunday morning
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Dear Fellows
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in the Chapel
NAME NAME in the Fellows Rooms after the Service
A number of Dr NAME s family are travelling from all over the country as well as from NAME NAME and NAME and including NAME NAME NAME Dr NAME s neice and NAME NUM Natural Sciences
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Re anaphora and qa
s fine by me too
The anaphorantecedent pairs are in
homes jp anaphora qa scripts results
The NAME parsed onesentenceperline file is in
homes jp anaphora qa scripts file
NAME that that s OK if you want the stuff rerun then runpl should do that although there may be permission issues email me if it does nt work
I did nt run pleonastics but it does have perfect animacy info
NAME
On NUM NAME NUM NAME NAME wrote
Hi am is fine by me actually any time is fine by me because I m free all day NAME
On NAME NUM NUM NAME NAME wrote
Below are the NUM context sets where pronominal anaphora resolution could in principle help
If you can run these through the system or give me a script then I and NAME can figure out how to integrate the antecedent CHAR back into the pattern matcher so that we can assess the effect on ranking and on the ability of the system to return the right short answer from the highest matching set of NAME
Resolving anaphora in all the context sets could also affect rankings etc elsewhere so if we could figure out how to reintegrate the results with NAME s system it wld be good to do this
However I do nt think it is essential we do this before submitting the abstract
NAME s going to come to the lab NAME mng to talk about this how about we all meet briefly and then decide who is going to do what by the NAME deadline
say am
NAME
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Question NUM Correct answer Tosrecordshissrevelations found at rank NUM NUM
Pintra Question NUM Correct answer NAME found at rank NUM NUM
NAME Question NUM Correct answer NAME
CHAR NAME found at rank NUM NUM
NAME Question
Correct answer Koresh found at rank NUM NUM
Pintra Question
Correct answer NAME found at rank NUM NUM
Pintra Question
Correct answer NAME found at rank NUM NUM
Pintra Question
Correct answer HollywoodsMemorialsPark found at rank NUM NUM
NAME Question NUM Correct answer NAME found at rank NUM NUM
Pintra Question NUM Correct answer NUM NUM found at rank NUM NUM
Pintra Question NUM Correct answer cellosconcertos found at rank NUM NUM
Pintra Question NUM Correct answer moon found at rank NUM NUM
NAME Question NUM Correct answer NUM found at rank NUM NUM
Pintra Question NUM Correct answer NAME NAME found at rank NUM NUM
Pintra Question NUM Correct answer billionaire found at rank NUM NUM
Pintra
Re Reference letter Fwd
Yes
I hope you will receive it today from my previous employer
I can ask my actual employer to send you something just confirming that I am working here
NAME
On NAME NUM Mar NUM NAME NAME wrote
Yes thanks are we going to receive a second ref eg from your old or new employer
thanks NAME
Re mtg
Fine by me
NAME
REMINDER Linguistic Society talk this Wednesday NOTE not Thursday
The NAME University Linguistic Society will meet on Wednesday NUM NAME NUM
Professor NAME NAME School of Linguistics and Language University of NAME
will talk on
NAME and movement types abstract below
NAME Wednesday NUM NAME pm tea served from pm NAME The NAME Library NAME College NAME Street
Following the talk the society s officers will take the speaker out to dinner at a local restaurant members of the audience are most welcome to join us
Membership of the society for NUM remains at NUM pounds NUM pounds for students
If not already paid subscriptions can be brought to the meeting
Cheques should be made payable to NAME University Linguistic Society
AGREEMENT AND MOVEMENT TYPES
The talk concerns certain conditions on agreement and movement in mainly
Icelandic raising constructions
In Icelandic a seemtype raising verb takes an optional experiencer argument assigned dative case
The dative NAME
is usually moved to subject position in which case the seemverb can optionally agree with the subject of the infinitival clause as in NUM
NUM
NAME NAME CHAR the horses to be slow Icelandic with English words Or the
dative NAME can remain in NAME if it is indefinite as in NUM
In that case
the matrix verb and the embedded subject ca nt agree so the verb gets default NAME form
The intervening dative NAME blocks agreement
NUM There seems seem to a man the horses to be slow If the dative NAME is whmoved it still blocks agreement
NUM To what man do you think that seems seem CHAR the horses to be slow
A whtrace blocks agreement but an
NPtrace does nt NUM so to speak
This has various interesting implicatio ns for the theory of agreement and movement
For NUM thing it presupposes that
the whphrase moves directly to NAME without passing through NAME or
the relevant trace NAME be a whtrace
It is far from obvious how this can be ensured
And why would NPtrace and whtrace be different to begin
with
Matters are further complicated by the fact that although the whtrace blocks agreement it does not block NPmovement across it
Re Multilingual text categorisation
Both language modeling papers I listed mentioned a simple technique for obtaining training data using a standard search engine such as NAME ie you can simply specify the language of the document to be searched for
NAME
NAME NAME NAME EMAIL
By Multilingual NAME NAME I mean the problem of automatically assigning a category to a document whatever it is the language
The suggested approach build separate language models for the different languages supposes to have a sufficient quantity of texts in each language and for each category to be able to learn a model
In the real life this is not always true
NAME
At NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM you wrote
I suppose if you meant applying text categorization methods to a multilingual set of documents then you could just build separate language models for the different languages using the same approach as mentioned in the above papers
NAME NAME School of NAME University of NAME NAME
NAME NAME NAME EMAIL
NAME NAME
I would be most grateful if anyone had any references on NAME NAME NAME
Thank you for your help
School of Informatics University of NAME NAME This mail sent through NAME WEBSITE
REMINDER NAME Wed NUM March
TODAY
NAME talk Wed NUM March NUM NUM NUM in PEVA
NAME NAME currently doing doctoral research in the NAME with NAME NAME will talk on
Evolution of NAME NAME
Hardware circuits that detect their own failures are widely used yet very hard to design
A world first attempt at using NAME NAME to design them is described together with interesting and promising results which are competitive with conventional industry designs at a small scale
Re Punting
NAME eh
Outrageous
See you soon NAME
CHAR
On NUM NAME NUM NAME NAME wrote
hellloo
is he in NAME with a topless angelique and NAME
But he s back on wed ready for his summons to the NAME and fi inquisition on Thursday
tee hee
I ll be beack in NAME tonight
seeeee you soon NAME CHAR
On NAME NUM NUM NAME NAME wrote
Hi NAME
Why is NAME not around
Is he poncing around the country with NAME or something
I thought he was going to be around for at least some of this coming week
CHAR SMILEY
how about tuesday
but who will we ask in absence of bill
and the sixth place also
big questions of life
How about NAME
At NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NAME NAME wrote
All are good for me
NAME
Wed to not be
NAME NAME Officer NAME College NAME NAME NAME Email EMAIL
Re trecqa
let s leave it till NAME we do nt parse the NAME NAME one anyway
I ve rerun the files for ques NUM and NUM to NAME parses as these still had the Major s tokenisation errors and these do cause a lot of parse failures so you might want to replace these NUM files in NAME
NAME
Invitation from NAME on the top floor
NAME Open House
The NAME would like to invite you to join us between pm on Friday st January for drinks and snacks
Members of the Lab will be here to talk about their projects and to show you around our new home
We hope to see you there
NAME NAME
May bank holiday
Please note that Reception and other services in the NAME will be closed on Monday NUM May NUM
NAME
lecture notes on web
Hi NAME
I need a fast way to get content on the website for my course I do nt mind editing my own pages in fact I would prefer it to having to wait for you to put it up there
For my course there are daily or weekly updates lists of literature recent versions of the lecture notes additional papers from there my students need this stuff and rightfully bug me about it
So if you can just give us the path and write permission that would solve the problem for now
Thanks a lot
NAME
NAME EMAIL
NAME
xmlperl pipeline
Hi NAME
I would like to ask you a favour
In your NAME paper on the NAME website you say that you found a way to call NAME from within NAME on each individual sentence using xmlperl
I assume you set this up as a clientserver architecture so that the parser has to load the grammar only once
Could you tell me how you did that or even send me the code
Thank you very much this would help us a lot
NAME
Re Hi NAME
Hi NAME
NAME to hear from you
How s things going
Hard at work on your project now
And have you decided what to do next
Work is going well about a month left on my project now things are looking reasonably positive at the moment so I m hoping for the best
I m thinking of taking a year off studying next year and then returning to academia to do a PhD not sure where yet
Is it ok if I pass your email addr
to him if he has questions about the Masters course
No problem
All the best
NAME
Re misc
I have worked on the grant applications as much as I have only could this month given I ve had NUM final paper versions the NAME workshop stuff and all the laptop mess to deal with
It just has nt been enough and to put it mildlySMILEY I ve been really frustrated about the situation
Now that all that work is done including the script which I finished today I ll just let it run and gather the results when they are ready I will set myself to work on the applications nonstop until they re done as well
There are a couple of problems I ll have to email you about but it should otherwise go fairly quick
I will not let anything interrupt me will dine fast food rather than NUM
Were you actually in NUM on Friday
I would nt have noticed I suppose
All I could think of was how to get my NUM embarrasingly drunken visitors out of the restaurant in time so that they would nt break anything would nt miss their flight back to NAME
NAME
Re Re NAME on the park
OK NAME
Have fun in NAME
Bring me back a nuclear missile
Look forward to playing footy when you return
CHAR
On NAME NUM May NUM NAME NAME wrote
Wednesday s no good for me
Nor is Thursday really then I m off to NAME on Friday
Coming back weekend after next
NAME you enjoy the film
NAME
From NAME NAME EMAIL NAME NUM May NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM
Hey NAME
Would love to but am already booked to watch The NAME NAME
Wednesday evening
CHAR
Hi guys
Do you fancy playing some football tomorrow
A friend and I will be on NAME s Piece from about NUM NAME looking for a game
You could meet a mine first if you like
NAME it s NUM NAME NAME NUM down NAME NAME on the left
Hopefully see you there
NAME
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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The th NAME NAME Conference in NAME
The th NAME NAME Conference at the University of NAME In collaboration with the NAME NAME NAME for Linguistics And with the support of the NAME
SATURDAY NUM APRIL NUM University of NAME
SECOND FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for NAME NUM NAME NUM
NAME Speaker NAME NAME
We are delighted to announce that the th NAME NAME Conference at the University of NAME will be held on the NUM April NUM following the rd NAME Research Training Programme in NAME see WEBSITE by postgraduates for postgraduates to present their research and exchange ideas
There will be a number of papers NUM minutes plus NUM minutes for discussion on a wide range of linguistic topics and a guest lecture by NAME NAME of NAME see below
We welcome submissions from all postgraduates in any area of linguistics from phonetics and phonology to syntax to sociolinguistics
Please see the Guidelines for NAME below
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Papers in Linguistics of the University of NAME PLUM
The conference will be followed by a wine party hosted by the NAME and so we invite you to join us for a NAME drink at the end of the day or week for those of you who will have been to the NAME Research Training Programme
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No registration NAME for students from NAME institutions
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NAME is the author of many papers on the implicit explic it distinction pragmatics cognition the interface between pragmatics grammar and others and is an editor of Mind Language
She is also the author of the very recent book Thoughts and NAME The Pragmatics of Explicit Communication NUM NAME NAME
The title of the lecture will be announced in due course
See the conference website for further information
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Send the electronic copy as NAME rtf or pdf to EMAIL and mail the hard copy to NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME for Linguistics School of Languages University of NAME NAME Greater NAME NAME WT
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DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS Abstracts should reach us by st NAME NUM You will be notified whether your abstract has been successful by the th March NUM
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To register download the registration form from the NAME website WEBSITE applicable with cheques made payable to University of NAME to NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME for Linguistics School of Languages University of NAME NAME NAME NAME
DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION th March NUM
NAME There was a mistake on the first calls for papers the actual final date for registration is the th March not the nd March as previously stated
CONFERENCE WEBSITE WEBSITE Follow the link to the th NAME NAME Conference
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THE TH NAME NAME CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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additional agenda item
NUM thing that I think we ought to discuss before the projects are marked is the feedback that we give the students on the projects
at the moment we do nt tell them anything which I assume is because the course is over and because technically we should nt tell them anything until it s ratified by ORG but I do nt think this is consistent with the University policy on retention of exam results since we actually keep the marks ourselves and supply markbased information in references
the general University policy is that we should tell students everything that might provide useful feedback
Personally I think we should give the students letter grades not necessarily immediately after the exam it could wait till ORG has OKayed them and it could be something that was only disclosed on request
But I think this is the sort of thing that should be discussed since I do nt want to lumber any future examiners with a choice that seems unreasonable
NAME
NAME NUM Error With Editor
Dear NAME
Re NAME NUM
I am writing as I have noticed an error when I was compiling the NAME Status Report
I realised that the above paper is with you for a decision following the NUM reports we have received on the paper but I have recently asked NUM more people to review
I apologise for this mistake which occured following my chase email regarding papers With Editor last week
You kindly sent a big list of referees for the papers you had on record and I did not check whether the papers were all in fact waiting for referees
It turns out that this paper was actually with you for a decision not referee allocation
One of the referees could not be reached anyway as their email did not respond Dr NAME but the other referee Dr NAME NAME NAME was chased for a response today
I will obviously not chase this referee again as NUM reports have been received but I would be grateful to hear how you wish to proceed if the reviewer agrees to review
Should I apologise and say that no further reports are needed or accept and wait for the review
I look forward to hearing how you would like to deal with this matter
Many thanks
NAME
Forwarded by NAME NAME NAME HARCOURT on NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM
NAME NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM
To EMAIL cc
Subject Review NAME NUM NAME report
Dear NAME
Re NAME NUM
Please find appended below the final referee report for the above referenced paper which I received today from Dr NAME NAME
According to my records you were sent a copy of the comments of the first reviewer Dr NAME NAME on NUM March so I now await your decision on this paper
Best wishes
NAME NAME
NAME Speech and Language NAME Editorial Services Office Block NUM NAME NAME NAME Road NAME NAME NAME NAME
NAME NUM NUM NUM NUM NAME NUM NUM NUM NUM Email EMAIL
REVIEWER S COMMENTS FOLLOW
Forwarded by NAME NAME NAME HARCOURT on NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM
NAME NAME EMAIL on NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM
To EMAIL cc NAME NAME EMAIL
Subject Review NAME NUM
NAME Contemporaneous Text as NAME in Statistical Language NAME Authors CHAR NAME CHAR NAME
Notes to the Editor
This paper concerns the adaptation of statistical language models by using relevant text material written in another language in conjunction with statistical machinetranslation techniques
The subject and content of this paper is relevant interesting and wellpresented
NUM point I do feel should be addressed before publication is chapter NUM NAME
While this chapter contains interesting material it is not central to the main body of the paper and I feel it detracts from the focus of the work
Furthermore the content is largely speculative since no results are reported
I feel this material does not belong in the current publication and should simply be omitted
My recommendation is for the publication in NAME of the submitted work subject to my previous comment
With best regards NAME NAME
Dr NAME NAME NAME NUM NUM NUM Department of Electronic Engineering NAME NUM NUM NUM University of NAME Email EMAIL Private Bag NAME NAME NAME NUM NAME NAME
Notes to the authors
The paper concerns topical work that is very interesting and well presented
I have only NUM points of criticism the first of which I consider more important
NUM Chapter NUM the Epilogue
This chapter concerns the introduction of the notion of a crosslingual trigger and a discussion of how it may be incorporated into a language model using maximumentropy techniques
This is highly interesting but not immediately relevant to the main body of the paper
I feel this section should be omitted as it obscures the focus of the work presented in the first NUM sections and does not include any experimental evaluation
Instead I suggest this be a topic of a separate future publication
NUM The word contemporaneous plays a major role in your paper not least by its appearance in the title
Since this word is as far as I am aware not in common use I would suggest a short initial explanation to clarify the context in which you are using it
Re Fwd NAME NAME NAME NAME NUM and NAME SI Fwd
I think a SI on speaker recognition is very timely
The field has been reenergized by a recent focus on longterm beyond framelevel cepstrum speaker modeling and I do nt anticipate a problem getting NUM highquality papers
I m not familiar with the NAME workshops but I assume that submission would be open to anyone
I should disclose that we are doing some work in this area so my vote for such a SI is somewhat selfserving
NAME
NAME NAME wrote
NAME NAME NAME
Below is an email thread relating to a proposal for a special issue on Speaker NAME
The plan would be for a double issue in NAME NUM
The guest editor will by NAME NAME NAME from NAME NAME NAME NAME a second US editor to be decided
I support this proposal
Does everyone else agree
NAME
NAME
Further to the above and addressing the issues you raised the views of the NAME are that CHAR NAME NAME NAME would be NUM NAME another probably USside to be agreed
EMAIL CHAR we should aim for th qurater NUM CHAR we should request a double issue based on papers issue
What is now to do to get formal agreement
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NAME NAME NAME NAME Statistical Dependency Analysis with Support Vector Machines
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NAME NAME Alon Lavie Combining Rulebased and Datadriven Techniques for Grammatical Relation Extraction in NAME Language
NAME NAME Constraint relaxation with weighted feature structures
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Rim NAME NAME with Conditional Action Model using Surface Phrasal Types For Korean
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NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME Intelligent NAME in Natural Language Processing
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NAME Park NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME Rim Automatic Acquisition of Constraints for Efficient Korean NAME
NAME NAME Dependency parsing using dependency graph for storing alternative structures
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The preliminary NAME for the conference is available at WEBSITE NAME should be released soon
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We re aiming to have the number of reviews per person at around NUM or NUM
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I am writing to provide you with an update of our plans for Membership Year NUM
This year we anticipate providing a varied collection of corpora including our first video releases and data of interest to sociolinguists
Before elaborating on these intended releases I would like to briefly review the year thus far
We released these corpora as NUM NUM publications
LDCT NUM NAME German Transcripts NAME NUM NAME Spanish Transcripts NAME NUM NAME NAME NAME NAME NUM NAME NAME NAME
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Our planned releases for the remainder of NUM include the following corpora
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NAME NAME NUM NAME words NAME sentences NUM data files material drawn from NUM articles from NAME newswire between NUM and NUM NUM articles from Information Services Department of HKSAR newswire in NUM NUM articles from NAME magazine NAME NAME coded formatting similar to NAME NAME NAME for all NAME files no sgml tags for NAME news NAME files
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FORM NAME scheme developed to capture the kinematic information of gesture from videos of speakers video annotated with geometric descriptions of the positions and movements of the upper and lower arms and the hands and wrists FORM uses NAME graphs as its logical representation first release will be a corpus of gesture annotated videos
SAID CHAR NAME NAME NAME NAME purpose to provide data for investigating the structural configurations in which English idioms are typically found assuming that since idioms are phrasal lexical items NAME they will therefore have structural properties which are idiosyncratic data set consists of over NUM NUM idioms which have been hand annotated with a labeled bracketed syntactic analysis citation forms are drawn from NUM major dictionaries of English idioms analysis was conducted at the University of NAME NAME
NAME NAME Corpus of NAME American English Part NUM based on hundreds of recordings of natural speech from throughout the NAME representing a wide variety of people of different regional origins ages occupations and ethnic and social backgrounds reflects many ways that people use language in their lives contains NUM speech files and accompanying transcript files that have been annotated and time stamped NUM unique speakers over NAME words material collected by the University of NAME NAME NAME Center for the Study of Discourse
NAME Corpus of NAME comprises NUM sociolinguistic interviews with a total of NUM speakers conducted by NAME NAME and his students between NUM and NUM interviews were selected as examples of classic sociolinguistic interview methodology and represent a range of English regional and social dialects in addition to the audio and corresponding transcripts the publication includes a survey of sociolinguistic variables represented in the corpus also includes the DASLTrans tool that allows users to easily access the audio and transcripts and play examples of each variable surveyed will be available for free download
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Re muc
NAME NAME
How is NAME going to work if people do nt people know where to put comma CHAR
NAME ha well I m certainly not going to go through the files correcting grammar
Certainly introducing the spurious semicolons will seriously confuse the parser so doing a global sub using CHAR awk or sed before parsing wld help
Okay I ll try that and see how many CHAR fragx and CHAR s I m left with
We cld try asking for a better version from NAME or a MUCrelated discussion list
Send me all the details you have and I ll follow it up
Version NUM of the scorer used for the formal test appears to install NAME but it s version NUM for the dry run that s problematic
I ve yet to test actually using version NUM
though
Here s the error messages I get when following the install instructions
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l configc NUM initializer element is not constant
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E and NAME NAME s reply to my query
The install sequence is failing on the line gcc CHAR DSCCSID lconfigc
ie the C compiler is producing a syntax error when it tries to compile the file lconfigc in your project muc NAME MUCscorer MUCscorer src directory
specifically it is failing on line NUM FILE configin NUM stdin configout NUM stdout
because stdin and stdout is defined previously in such a way that the compiler does nt know that it is a constant and as this line is a definition this is an error because you cannot define something to be equal to something else that is nt known at compile time
Or to summarise with our CHAR compiler this is an error
The writer of the software presumably has a compiler which allows this sort of construct
You ll either have to complain to whoever wrote the software or find a CHAR expert willing to figure out how to rewrite the file such that our compiler allows it
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TITLE Opening up the Kernel to rd Parties
For safety reasons most modern operating systems allow only users with the highest privileges root users to program the kernel directly
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In the Open Kernel Environment NAME we allow any party with the appropriate credentials to load fully optimised native code in a safe manner in the heart of the NAME kernel
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NAME Loglinear models with priors
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I will leave after the talk and should be logged out for the NUM days because NAME will move my home directory to the new server
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Thanks for the email
I am delighted you are interested
As you will recall this project was offered to someone else when you last visited
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I would be very keen to work in this area especially because of its strong links with biology which would give me good training for researching the area of tropical diseases in the future
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NUM NAME NAME had suggested at an earlier meeting that Project Proposals should be submitted by NAME NAME and workplans by the end of NAME NAME
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NAME NAME
TH and NAME will send Engineering PhD attendee numbers to NAME by around th January
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Re NAME NAME morphological taggers
NAME NAME wrote
You may find this of interest
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Re batteries
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March rd
A while but my next birthday is the big NUM
How old are you
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Re workplan
Hi
I have been trying to come to some sensible conclusions about which topic codes to select
Given some basic assumptions
NUM It would be nice to have several granularities of classification available in order to investigate performance thoroughly
NUM Issues of data sparsity should be avoided if possible hence large training set
NUM Using similar data to NAME would save time and effort
NUM Building on or at least comparing to NAME NAME s work might be beneficial
It seems sensible to mimic what NAME is thinking of doing and make use of the CHAR and CHAR topic hierarchies
The CHAR hierarchy provides both fine and medium granularities the use of both CHAR and CHAR gives a coarse classification problem
There are many documents in each hierarchy tempering any data sparsity problems
In fact there are probably too many documents in the CHAR hierarchy especially and so perhaps only a subset should be used for example the C documents and not the C C etc
Does this seem sensible to you
I have shell scripts running that retrieve the zip file and xml file name of each document belonging to each hierarchy but they take an extremely long time to run
Also in his writeup NAME NAME says that some documents are assigned a subtopic without being assigned the corresponding parent eg C without NAME it seems to me that these should be taken as implied where they are not present but that may not be correct
Thanks
NAME
NAME NAME EMAIL
I d prefer you handed in and I signed off on something that had a sensible estimte of filespace recquirements so do this after your lab reports
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Re proposal
Things have been a bit hectic lately eg I stupidly promised NAME to go and give a talk in his MEANING workshop before I realised that they want me to give plenty of feedback on their project as well but I have managed to work on the NAME and NAME proposals
I think the proposals are now better but I would be grateful if you had a quick look
I left them in your pigeon hole in an envelope
They ended up being quite similar in terms of the overall goal
They both propose developing a system for automatic largescale domainspecific verb classification building on the extant technology rasp parser subcat extraction NAME clustering and improving expanding on this where needed and using the final version of this system to acquire a large domainindependent classification for verbs which will be made available for public use along with the software which can be used to tune it specific to domains tasks
They differ in that
NUM NAME proposal involves experimenting with what kind of linguistically interesting novel information aside verb classes we can acquire from corpus data using our technology
Where possible this information will be incorporated into the final resource I build
NUM NAME proposal is technically a bit more ambitious it concentrates on extracting verb classes and class participants no other novel info and involves developing a new taskbased evaluation in the context of event extraction
If you feel they are not different enough I ll then change modify them further
Also I am happy to improve them further where required
NAME does nt have any deadlines but it would be good to submit asap so that the proposal will get to the July board
I just received NUM successful fellowship proposals to look at so I will also be able to submit the fellowship prop
soon
I think you mentioned I could submit the NAME proposal to the Research in the Fundamental Computer Science for eScience scheme
The deadline for that is this month NUM
I have already asked NAME to calculate my salary so I can in principle start to fill in the application forms
However I ll first wait and see if you think these proposals are ok because I need to make all kinds of aims and objectives summaries in the application form
Then there are bits that you probably need to look at but I ll get back to you about those later
Many thanks NAME
Re epsrc equip etc
NUM dual processor high end pc running linux with NAME of NAME and a big internal hard disc so we can have max
sensible amount of local scratch eg NAME
NUM NAME
NUM more single processor pc linux set up with NAME NAME and NAME disc
NUM
NAME NAME license for NAME Windows and NAME
Expensive
It costs per architecture NAME is currently NUM yes dollars per annum
Each new architecture would cost us to buy and then maintain in subsequent years
I ve asked for exact prices and will forward it when available
Contribution to lab fileserver facility to store lightly backed up GB of annotated text
NUM NAME
NAME infrastructure costs for a NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME project
NAME they ve stopped paying that so put down for more equipment say a laptop for a NAME instead please and hide it as one of your machines put in
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consumables as NAME Office licences at NUM at pound NUM backup media and archive pound NUM NAME
NAME NUM st NAME NAME deadline May NUM NUM
First Call for Papers
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semantic interpretation in dialogues
reference in dialogues
dialogue and discourse structure
interpretation of questions and answers
nonlinguistic interaction in communication
natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems
multimodal dialogue systems
dialogue management in practical implementations
categorisation of dialogue moves or speech acts in corpora
designing and evaluating dialogue systems
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