On the status of Resumptive Pronouns in Restrictive Relative Clauses

We discuss the status of Modern Greek Resumptive Pronouns, focusing on Restrictive Relative Clauses. Several analyses have been proposed to account for the phenomenon of resumption in Modern Greek Relative Clauses arguing in favour of a similar treatment of gaps and resumptive pronouns, suggesting that Binder-Resumptive Dependencies are triggered by the same mechanism as Filler-Gap Dependencies. In this paper, it is argued that resumptive pronouns are the ordinary pronoun forms of the language and that they are not alternative manifestations of gaps, presenting evidence from Asudeh’s (2004) criteria for Hebrew, Irish and Swedish. Following this, we propose an LFG analysis for resumption in Modern Greek pu and o opios Restrictive Relative Clauses, distinguishing between two types of Dependencies (Filler-Gap and Binder-Resumptive Dependencies), following Asudeh (2004)’s treatment of the syntax of resumptives in these languages

Implementing a fragment of Modern Greek Grammar, using the Xerox Linguistics Environment (XLE)

This paper presents a computational grammar of a fragment of Modern Greek, following the principles of the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) Parallel Grammar (ParGram) Project (PARC, 2008), a collaborative effort among researchers in industrial and academic institutions whose objective is to build wide coverage deep-parsing grammars for a wide variety of languages. The grammar is built using the Xerox Linguistics Environment (XLE) parser (PARC, 2009) and at the moment covers the syntax of basic clause and word order phenomena in Modern Greek, and the Syntax of pu-Restrictive Relative Clauses, with particular focus on the distribution of the gap/resumptive relativisation strategy. In our paper, we present a brief overview of the XLE system, and the Parallel Grammar (ParGram) initiative. We present the fragment of Modern Greek, focusing on the coverage and the main assumptions underlying the current version of the grammar. We conclude by evaluating our grammar and discussing areas in need of immediate improvement to be dealt with in future versions as well as some future development directions

Understanding chronic pain in the ubiquitous community: the role of open data

The combined use of social media, open data, and Artificial Intelligence has the potential to support practitioners and empower patients/citizens living with persistent pain, both as local and online communities. Given the wide availability of digital technology today, both practitioners and interested individuals can be connected with virtual communities and can support each other from the comfort of their homes. Digital means may represent new avenues for exploring the complexity of the pain experience. Online interactions of patients, data on effective treatments, and data collected by wearable devices may represent an incredible source of psychological, sociological, and physiological pain-related information. Digital means might provide several solutions that enhance inclusiveness and motivate patients to share personal experiences, limiting the sense of isolation in both rural and metropolitan areas. Building on the consensus of the usefulness of social media in enhancing the understanding of persistent pain and related subjective experiences via online communities and networks, we provide relevant scenarios where the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare delivery might be improved by the adoption of the digital technologies mentioned above and repeated subsequently. The aim of this perspective paper is to explore the potential of open data, social media, and Artificial Intelligence in improving the prevention and management of persistent pain by adopting innovative non-biomedical approaches

Parish Safety Volunteer Programme: Evaluation

This document is intended to present to PSV partners (Andrea MacAlister and Kieron Moir) a basic analysis of accidental dwelling fires (ADFs) and burglaries before and after the Parish Safety Volunteer (PSV) programme was implemented in parishes across Essex County

Evaluating the Essex Data Programme: Data Collection and Data Management Plan

The report sets out the framework for the evaluation of the Essex Data Programme, delivered by Essex County Council and partners organisations. The Essex Data (ED) Programme is a pilot project seeking to improve early intervention by safely sharing and matching county level data from different partners to provide insights to policy makers and front-line support staff. The ED Programme seeks to pilot a way of safely sharing and matching partner data to enable its use to predict risk and provide insight to support a shift to early intervention. Issue-based prototypes to address system-wide challenging issues make up the pilot. The report includes information on the project's objectives, stakeholders that will be involved, outlines the evaluation logic model, and presents the evaluation delivery timeline and milestones. It also defines the project's outcomes, and key success indicators that will be measured throughout the programme as well as a data management plan on how this information needs to be handled, stored, transferred etc

Financial Benefits Review: Transformation Challenge Award programme, Essex County Council

This is an Interim Financial Benefits Review (FBR) for projects that have been funded by the Transformation Challenge Award (TCA) and are being delivered by Essex Partners. The review only covers those projects funded by the TCA that have financial benefits associated with them in the initial proposal of work. The projects in scope included the Domestic Abuse Housing Database, the Domestic Abuse in Health – IDVA project, the Parish Safety Volunteers, the Social Prescription and the Essex Data: Program. This report aimed at producing a clear model of how cashable benefits of £27.5 million over 10 years will be delivered, or a revision of expectations if necessary and to recommend actions to employ with respect to financial benefits delivery in future service provision based on lessons learnt

Options Paper, Transformation Challenge Award (TCA) Programme Evaluation

This paper sets out possible next steps in response to the Interim Financial Benefits Review (FBR) of the Transformation Challenge Award (TCA) funded projects submitted on the 13/09/2017 and presents options for action to address the recommendations of the report