We focus on the productionof efficient descriptionsof objects, actions and events. We define a type of efficiency, textualeconomy, thatexploitsthe hearer’s recognitionof infe...
We here explore a "fully" lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar for discourse that takes the basic elements of a (monologic) discourse to be not simply clauses, but larger ...
This paper summarises a set of methodologies and techniques for the fast construction of multilingual WordNets. The English WordNet is used in this approach as a backbone for Cata...
Xavier Farreres, German Rigau, Horacio Rodrí...
Research into the automatic acquisition of lexical information from corpora is starting to produce large-scale computational lexicons containing data on the relative frequencies o...
This paper describes a method for asking statistical questions about a large text corpus. We exemplify the method by addressing the question, "What percentage of Federal Regi...
In this paper we introduce the methodology used and the basic phases we followed to develop the Catalan WordNet, and which lexical resources have been employed in its building. Th...
Laura Benitez, Sergi Cervell, Gerard Escudero, Mon...
Conversational implicatures are usually described as being licensed by the disobeying or flouting of some principle by the speaker in cooperative dialogue. However, such work has...
A model of co-occurrence in bitext is a boolean predicate that indicates whether a given pair of word tokens co-occur in corresponding regions of the bitext space. Co-occurrence i...