Morphology in Phonology : introduction

This fourth volume of Catalan Journal of Linguistics is devoted to a topic discussed at length in the literature but which nevertheless remains a challenge for any view of phonology: the morphology-phonology interaction. The papers collected address two related issues, the role of morphological information in phonology and the role of phonological information in morphology. The first six articles (i.e. McCarthy, Wheeler, Downing, van Oostendorp, José and Auger, and Rice) deal with the former topic; the last three (i.e. Bertinetto and Jetchev, Pérez Saldanya and Vallès, and Viaplana), with the latter. Several papers (Wheeler, van Oostendorp, Rice, Bertinetto and Jetchev, Pérez Saldanya and Vallès, and Viaplana) further discuss the role and concept of paradigms, an old Neogrammarian notion to which renewed attention has been payed both from the phonological perspective (cf. work by Benua 1995, 1997; Burzio 1994 and subsequent work; Kenstowicz 1996, 2002; Steriade 2000, and the articles in the recent volume edited by Downing et al. 2005, among others) and from the morphological perspective (cf. work by Aronoff 1994; Bauer 1997, 2001; Carstairs-McCarthy 1994, 1998; Stump 1991, 1997; van Marle 1985, 1994; Wurzel 1989, and several articles in the recent volume edited by Boucher 2002, among others)

FuzzyBIO: a proposal for fuzzy representation of discontinuous entities

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Narrative detection in online patient communities

Although narratives on patient forums are a valuable source of medical information, their systematic detection and analysis has so far been limited to a single study. In this study, we examine whether psycho-linguistic features or document embeddings can aid identification of narratives. We also investigate which features distinguish narratives from other social media posts. This study is the rst to automatically identify the topics discussed in narratives on a patient forum. Our results show that for classifying narratives, character 3-grams outperform psycho-linguistic features and document embeddings. We found that narratives are characterized by the use of past tense, health-related words and rst-person pronouns, whereas non-narrative text is associ-ated with the future tense, emotional support words and second-person pronouns. Topic analysis of the patient narratives uncovered fourteen dierent medical topics, ranging from tumor surgery to side eects. Future work will use these methods to extract experiential patient knowledge from social media.Algorithms and the Foundations of Software technolog

Breaking BERT: Understanding its vulnerabilities for biomedical named entity recognition through adversarial attack

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14C labelling of algal pigments to estimate the contribution of different taxa to primary production in natural seawater

Several attempts have been made in the past to measure taxon-specific growth rates in natural phytoplankton populations in order to evaluate the conditions leading to success of individual taxa, to estimate the specific role of the various taxonomic components of algae in the food web and in nutrient cycling, and to explain succession. The method of Redalje and Laws, who studied the pattern of l4C labelling of Chi a (the pigment common to all microalgae), has now been adapted by following 14C incorpor­ ation into the carotenoids that are tags of taxonomic groups. The results obtained so far indicate that even in oligotrophic regions different species co-occurring in one sample usually incorporate 14C at a very different rate, which suggests that it is not only eutrophic pelagic plankton communities that are subject to rapid shifts in growth conditions. The pigment labelling method is still open to challenge from several directions. More research must be done to transform this approach into a technique that is undeniably accurate and reliable for the assessment of growth rates of algal taxa-o r to show when and under what circumstances it cannot be used. Special care should be taken to avoid radioactive contamination of pigments separated by HPLC, and isotope dilution during experiments. The methods that are available now can also be applied directly to studies of the turnover and eventual fate of the various pigments synthesized by algae, be they photosyntheticaliy active or photoprotective, e.g., in studies of photoadaptation, for example the response of algae to increased ultraviolet radiation. I4C labelling of both chlorophylls and carotenoids may even become a tool in studies of large-scale carbon cycling because a considerable part of phytoplankton carbon biomass in the sea and in sediments is associated with pigments or their degradation products