... with the cattag ofthe compound. Thisheuristic produces the correct POS for the subparts of the compound most ofthe time.2An alternative would be to retain the cattag ofthe com-pound. The ... to the word orderflexibility of that language, rather than to the flatness of the annotation in the German treebank. The paper is organized as follows: In Section 2,we give an overview oftheFrench ... probabilityP(RHS|LHS). The probabilities for all the rules with the same left-hand side have to sum up to one and the probability of a parse tree T is defined as the product ofthe probabilities of each rule...
... are thesounds made with the back ofthe tongue and the soft palate. Glottal /h/ is made at the epiglottis. Retroflex /post alveolar /r/ are thesounds made with the tip ofthe tongue and the ... vowels) are sounds in the production of which there is no obstruction to the flow of air as it passes from the larynx to the lips .They are usually pronounced with the vibration ofthe vocal ... TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements PART I: INTRODUCTION Page 1. Rationale ofthe study 1 2. Aims ofthe study 2 3. Scope ofthe study 2 4. Methods ofthe study 2 5. Design of the...
... precise the lexicel nature of the Nl's attached to the verbs. The signs in a row ofthe matrix provides the syntactic paradigm of a verb, that is, the sentence forms into which the verb ... longer used, since they cannot determine the syntactic behsviour of individual verbs. The nature ofthe lexicon-grammar should then become clearer. An entry ofthe lexicon-grammar of verbs is • ... placed at the intersection ofthe corresponding row and column, if not s "-" sagn. The description oftheFrench verbs does not have the shape of a 10,000x500 matrix. Because of its...
... abasic functionality. Today, in particular for the French language, the developers face the greatdiversity ofthe offer in the domain. Therefore, the need for a complete comparative evaluationframework ... relation the address of itsparameters. Of course, all of them are not to befilled in. All the information thus annotated isthen translated into an XML format. Annotation of the example of §2 ... relationssubject-verbauxiliary-verbargument-verbmodifier-verbmodifier-nounmodifier-adjectivemodifier-adverbattribute-subject/objectCoordinationAppositionComplementer2 Annotation formalism The definition ofthe annotation formalism is the core element ofthe evaluation process. Indeed, the formalism must have a coverage of syntactical phenomena as broad...
... tracts in the reign of Louis XVI. The sale of their woods, the letting of their pastures, of fishing rights, or ofthe office of wine-taster in grape-growingdistricts, formed the revenues ofthe rural ... and the Lady ofthe Bedchamber,both if they were there together, assisted by the First Woman and the two other women, did the principalservice; but there were distinctions among them. The Lady ... impede the government, but administrative boards, entrusted by the sovereign with the duty of watching over the interests ofthe people of their districts. The Assembly of Notables of 1787 and the...
... utility; the romance ofthe fields, and the pastoral, yet courtly, loves of a French Arcady, were the inspiration of the endless prose bucolics found in the Astree of HONORE D'URFE. The Renaissance ... The great protagonist is the Divine Being; Providence replaces the fate of the ancient drama. A child (for Racine was still an innovator in theFrench theatre) was the centre ofthe action; the ... empire of Rome, the beginnings oftheFrench monarchy are successively presented. But the chief personages are idealised portraits drawn from the society ofthe author's time. The spirit of the...
... across the empire of New France gives but suggestion ofthe meagerest fraction of the fruitage ofthe planting ofthe leaden plates or the grafting ofthe arms of France upon the trees along the Ohio ... Tartars from the banks ofthe Volga, across the steppes of Europe and the deserts of Asia to the frontiers of China the story ofthe journey of over a halfmillion semi-barbarians, half of whom perished ... when last there I dug away the sandand soil about the trunk ofthe tree till I could trace the scar left by the axe ofthe French. It is only about twomiles from this tree at the bend ofthe St....
... syntactic category of the node, of its parent, the syntactic function of the node, the voice ofthe parent, the arguments of the parent, and the agreement features of the grand-parent. These features ... 3"Acceptable" and 4 "Ideal". The score of a sentence is the average of the scores from the five raters. The system score is the average ofthe scores of all sentences. The average score was 2.92 ... be marked assuch, otherwise they are assigned the label of the head instead ofthe label of its complement.(Note that the assignment of syntactic labelstakes place before the operation that...
... using the SF-36. The personal mean score, where the imputed value of amissing item is the mean ofthe non-missing items of the same scale, has been recommended for use with the SF-36 [15,16]. Other ... field. The development of sound strategies of replacement and prevention requires accurateknowledge of their type and determinants.Methods: We used the 2003 French Decennial Health Survey of a ... ite ms ofthe SF-36 and missing not atrandom for the others. None ofthe items were missing completely at random. Independent predictors of missingness were age, female sex, low scores on the SF-36...
... and the other forty-seven lots averaged £151 8s.5d., an unheard -of sale, yet all the auctioneer got was 5 guineas, much ofthe work ofthe sale falling on the owner, and the former sold the ... its affairs through the ex-officio members, among whom were the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Lord Chancellor, the First Lord ofthe Admiralty, and the Speaker. The first president ... the founders of a new breed of cattle; they were the collectors and preservers of an ancient breed that might otherwise have disappeared.[513] The object of good breeders was now to get their...