Large-scale deep linguistic processing IN COLLABORATION WITH: Analyse Linguistique Profonde A Grande Echelle (ALPAGE)

The general aim of PARSEME is increasing and enhancing the ICT support of the European multilingual heritage. This aim is pursued via more detailed objectives: (1) to put multilingualism in focus of linguistic and technological studies; (2) to establish a long-lasting crosslingual, cross-theoretical and cross-methodological research network in natural language processing (NLP); (3) to bridge the gap between linguistic precision and computational efficiency in NLP applications. Program: ISCH COST Action IS1312 Project acronym: TextLink Project title: Structuring Discourse in Multilingual Europe Duration: April 2014 April 2018 Coordinator: Liesbeth Degand Other partners: experts in computational linguistics and discourse from 24 countries France MC members: Laurence Danlos and Philippe Muller (IRIT) Abstract: With partners from across Europe, TextLink will unify numerous but scattered linguistic resources on discourse structure. With its resources searchable by form and/or meaning and a source of valuable correspondences, TextLink will enhance the experience and performance of human translators, lexicographers, language technology and language learners alike. 8.3. International Initiatives 8.3. 1. Inria International Partners 8.3. 1.1. Informal International Partners Alpage has active collaborations with several international teams. The most active in 2014 have been: • collaboration with Columbia University (United States), in particular on discourse modeling (Laurence Danlos, with Owen Rambow) and on computational morphology (Benoît Sagot, with Owen Rambow) • collaboration with the Emory University (USA) on broad coverage parsing of unlabeled and noisy Korean data set (Djamé Seddah, with Jinho D. Choi). • collaboration with the Indiana University (United States) on parsing morphologically rich languages (Djamé Seddah, with Sandra Kubler) • collaboration with the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) on wordnet development (Benoît Sagot, with Darja Fišer) • collaboration with the Uppsala University (Sweden) on statistical parsing (Marie-Hélène Candito and sDjamé Seddah, with Joakim Nivre) • collaboration with the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) on parsing morphologically rich languages (Djamé Seddah, with Reut Tsarfaty) 8.4. International Research Visitors 8.4. 1. Visits of International Scientists James Pustejovsky from Brandeis University (Boston, USA) was invited Professor at Alpage in April 2014. His stay was funded by Inria, his travel by Alpage. He is specialist in computational semantics and the creator of the “Generative Lexicon”. During his stay in Paris, he gave two lectures with a large audience. The topic was on the computational model of events. The notion of event has long been central for both modeling the semantics of natural language as well as reasoning in goal-driven tasks in artificial intelligence. James outlined a unified theory of event structure. James has also been working with Alpage members. First on the French lexical resources developed at Alpage, namely Framenet (Marie Candito) and Verbenet (Laurence Danlos). Second on the role of attributions in discourse structure within the linguistic work made at Alpage for the ANR Polymnie (Laurence Danlos and Julie Hunter). Project-Team ALPAGE 27 8.4. 1.1. Internships Kristina Gulordava is a visiting research student from the University of Geneva (LATL) supervised by Paola Merlo, visting ALPAGE from September 2014 to January 2015. Her Phd thesis is dedicated to the study of generic cross linguistic constraints across languages. Her goal is to investigate the connection between the quantitative aspects of word order variation across languages and the quantitative aspects of word order variation within a language. She explores to which extent a computational corpus-based analysis can provide new evidence not only for empirical, but also for theoretical linguistic research.