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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 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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 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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 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adversely to unsolicited email or paper mailings so your otherwise successful saturation publicity could well have the effect of reducing your chances in this afternoon s voting for best project NAME NAME NAME NAME Laboratory University of NAME WEBSITE NAME for the Study of NAME Seminar this Thursday Dear All Come and hear about some of the exciting research that goes on at NAME this Thursday th June at NUM pm in the NAME NAME Theatre Speaker NAME NAME NAME From pacemakers to hifi audio receptors developmental changes in cochlear inner hair cells Everybody is very welcome NAME 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 NAME 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 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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 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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 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Chapel 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 The group performs to a very high standard Admission is free retiring collection NAME NAME If you wish to be removed from this mailing list please send an email to NAME Leader EMAIL 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 WEBSITE 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 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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 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wish to be removed from this mailing list please send an email to NAME Leader EMAIL NAME Speech register samples Greetings I would like to find speech corpora of different registers of speech eg speech that is used in a particular situation such as that of an elementary school teacher teacher talk or speech from doctors to patients doctor talk speech directed at nonnative speakers lectures casual speech within social groups etc ANY amount will be of help to me I ll post a summary Thank you in advance for your help This kind of material appears to be quite elusive NAME NAME Re Nonjunk email NAME NAME Have started classifying Very exciting CHAR On Mon NUM May NUM NAME NAME wrote I sent it to ucamclannouce which is read by mosat of the research students and staff Let s wait a week or so see what happens and then I ll send it to some wider lists NAME NAME anaphora resolution systems NAME 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 EMAIL Hey NAME How s life in the fast lane SMILEY I m trundling along gettng ready for Christmas Say hi to bryany for me Laters NAME Re mtg sorry meant to send this It s my abstract for NAME NAME NAME NAME University EMAIL ORG NAME NAME Building NUM NAME NAME Avenue NAME NAME NAME NAME 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 CHAR 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 Re NAME NAME What are all these Christian cliches creeping into your emails I will NAME willing already be up there and NAME Bless you very richly my son No worries I ll just have to enjoy the train journey on my own Laters CHAR NAME Corpus Linguistics NUM call for participation CORPUS LINGUISTICS NUM NAME University UK NUM NUM March NUM CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS Corpus Linguistics NUM will be a forum for all concerned with the computerassisted empirical analysis of natural language Our definition of corpus is broad and we therefore welcome those working on substantial 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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 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it is the address I am changing NAME NAME NAME College NAME NUM NUM NAME Road Mob NUM NUM NAME NAME NAME Email EMAIL 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 NAME NAME wrote 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 NAME and NAME NAME in NAME NAME and NAME WEBSITE NAME NAME Senior Research NAME NAME CHAR NUM NUM NUM NUM University of NAME CHAR NUM NUM NUM NUM NAME Road CHAR EMAIL NAME NAME NAME NAME WEBSITE Re wiggaz OK you re on NUM at the courts CHAR On NAME NUM May NUM NAME NAME wrote 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 NAME Wed NUM May NUM NAME NAME wrote 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 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prepared for anonymous review to both NAME NAME University of NAME NAME EMAIL and NAME NAME University of NAME NAME EMAIL Important dates Deadline for regular paper submissions March NUM Deadline for results submissions March NUM shared task Deadline for short paper submissions April NUM shared task Notification of acceptance for regular papers April NUM Deadline for cameraready papers April NUM Organisation Committee NAME NAME University of NAME NAME NAME NAME University of NAME Duluth Program Committee NAME NAME NAME University NAME NAME University of NAME NAME NAME NAME Institute of Technology NAME NAME University of NAME NAME NAME Information Sciences Institute NAME NAME University of NAME NAME das NAME NAME NAME University of NAME NAME NAME NAME Vassar College NAME NAME NAME NAME Federal University of NAME NAME NAME NAME University of NAME NAME Information Sciences Institute NAME NAME University of NAME NAME NAME University of NAME NAME NAME University of NAME NAME Information Sciences Institute NAME NAME NAME NAME University NAME NAME NAME University NAME NAME University of NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME Polytechnic University NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME Och Information Sciences Institute NAME NAME NAME University NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME Research NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME University of NAME NAME NAME ORGRE NAME NAME University of NAME NAME NAME Joint Research NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME University of NAME NAME NAME University of NAME Institute of Science and Technology NAME NAME Canon Research NAME NAME NAME NAME University of NAME NAME NAME Army Research Lab NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME University of NAME 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 Best NAME Dr NAME NAME Language Technology Group University of NAME NUM NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME email EMAIL NAME NUM NUM NUM NUM NAME NUM NUM NUM NUM NAME NAME NAME package in NAME NAME NAME a new NAME package for ngram analysis is made available at the site WEBSITE and it will be soon be indexed by NAME WEBSITE 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 NAME NAME ngram version help nD typeDcharacter order byfrequency input files DESCRIPTION This script produces ngrams tables of 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Evolution of Complex Agents UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM presents Engineering the Evolution of Complex Agents speaker Dr NAME NAME Institute of Perception Action and NAME University of NAME NUM March NUM Wednesday NAME Theatre NAME NAME Campus NUM NUM pm Coffee tea and biscuits will be available Everyone is Welcome to Attend Space Permitting NAME For more than half a century people have tried to engineer software evolutionary systems which are capable of ongoing innovation and the evolution of complex agents These attempts have met with limited success In this talk I will briefly review some of the seminal examples of this endeavour including NAME NAME s selfreproducing automata NAME s platform of selfreproducing computer programs NAME and NAME evolved virtual creatures and identify aspects of each system that inhibit evolvability This will lead onto a discussion of how to design an improved evolutionary system that could overcome some of these problems and exhibit improved evolvability NAME NAME Science Research NAME NAME NAME WEBSITE error analysis NAME NAME I ve started analysing what NAME gets wrong and since it gets plenty wrong it s taking a while to work through it all but here are my notes on the sort of things I m finding If you have any input on this that d be great I d probably find a meeting to discuss these baseline results helpful quite soon I ll try to come up with a clearer picture of where and why errors occur in what sort of proportions by then Thanks NAME 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 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instantly Re keeping term Hi NAME I have kept term Regards NAME NAME On NAME NUM NAME NUM NAME Free wrote Dear NAME Please reply to this email to confirm that you have indeed kept term for NAME NUM ie you have been in NAME all the time every night between nd April and th June If you have missed any nights these should have been made up in the period either side which extends from th April to th June Last term I eventually got per cent replies so thanks to you all Some of you were a little late and did need chasing up though Please make my job easier by replying promptly If you are in any doubt as to how this message affects you do please come and see me or send me a message We can then discuss it informally Those of you who have already completed the full quote of terms for their course eg NUM terms for a PhD or have been granted leave to work away from the NAME NUM term will not need to keep term Best wishes for a happy summer NAME Free NAME NAME Free Graduate Tutors Office NAME College NAME NAME NAME NAME NUM NUM NAME NUM NUM email EMAIL NAME NAME Free Graduate Tutors Office NAME College NAME NAME NAME NAME NUM NUM NAME NUM NUM email EMAIL NAME NAME NAME concordance I remember I had the same problem with NAME As my corpora are quite small I threw the doublettes out manually but I would be glad about a solution anyway NAME NAME Department of NAME NAME NAME University of Economics and Business Administration NAME NAME NAME Von NAME NAME NAME EMAIL NAME am NAME NUM NAME NUM NUM NUM An corpora list messages to list NAME 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 NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME School of NAME NAME NAME University NAME UK NAME NUM NUM NUM NAME NUM NUM NUM Email EMAIL