Adapting the Core Language Engine to French and Spanish

We describe how substantial domain-independent language-processing systems for French and Spanish were quickly developed by manually adapting an existing English-language system, the SRI Core Language Engine. We explain the adaptation process in detail, and argue that it provides a fairly general recipe for converting a grammar-based system for English into a corresponding one for a Romance language.Comment: 9 pages, aclap.sty; to appear in NLP+IA 96; see also http://www.cam.sri.com

Aspectual Coercion and Logical Polysemy

Recent work in computational semantics and lexical semantics has made an interesting shift. Motivated by a concern for lexical organization and global coherence in the structure of the lexicon, some researchers have moved towards more expressive semantic descriptions, as well as more powerful methods of composition. There has been some concern expressed, however, as to the general applicability of type-changing operations such as coercion, as well as concerning the power of generative mechanisms operating in the lexicon and semantics. In this paper, we address these concerns directly, and show that, upon closer examination, these critiques are not substantiated by the linguistic data. Without a proper notion of constraints on coercion, however, there can indeed be overgeneration of interpretations in the semantics, and in fact the notion of conditions on coercion has always been integral to the basic spirit of generative lexicons. In particular, we examine the constraints on type coercion in complement constructions of aspectual predicates in English and French. What we discover is a natural explanation for the behavior of coercion that makes reference to different types of event selection while also addressing the polysemous nature of aspectual verb

Performance of monetary policy with internal central bank forecasting

Recent models of monetary policy have analyzed the desirability of different optimal and ad hoc interest rules under the restrictive assumption that forecasts of the private sector and the central bank are homogenous. In this paper, we study the implications of heterogeneity in forecasts of the central bank and private agents for the performance of interest rules from the learning viewpoint. JEL Classification: E52, E31, D84Adaptive learning, heterogeneity, monetary policy, stability

Status quo of inclusive access to higher education : a focus on deaf and hearing-impaired individuals in german-speaking Switzerland

As numbers of graduates with impairments are actually decreasing, higher education access and study conditions are in need of improvement for students with sensory impairments in Switzerland. A survey was carried out in order to determine the status quo in higher education for Swiss deaf, blind, visually and hearing-impaired individuals. The current paper presents the survey, discusses methodological and technical issues and points out preliminary results concerning Swiss-German deaf and hearing impaired individuals

An Open Platform That Allows Non-Expert Users to Build and Deploy Speech-Enabled Online CALL Courses (demo description)

Abstract We demonstrate Open CALL-SLT, a framework which allows non-experts to design, implement and deploy online speechenabled CALL courses. The demo accompanies two long papers [1, 2] also appearing at the SLaTE 2015 workshop, which describe the platform in detail

Integrating MT at Swiss Post’s Language Service: preliminary results

This paper presents the preliminary results of an ongoing academia-industry collaboration that aims to integrate MT into the workflow of Swiss Post’s Language Service. We describe the evaluations carried out to select an MT tool (commercial or open-source) and assess the suitability of machine translation for post-editing in Swiss Post’s various subject areas and language pairs. The goal of this first phase is to provide recommendations with regard to the tool, language pair and most suitable domain for implementing MT