Asia Minor Greek: Towards a Computational Processing

AbstractIn this paper, we discuss issues concerning the computational aspect of an on-going research project which aims at providing a systematic study of three Greek dialects of Asia Minor (“Pontus, Cappadocia, Aivali: In search of Asia Minor Greek”- AmiGre) In fact, the project constitutes the first attempt to describe dialectal phenomena at a phonological, morphological, and structural level. Furthermore, it also constitutes the first attempt in Greece to combine Informatics and Theoretical Lin- guistics in order to facilitate the above-mentioned task. The aim here is to provide the design principles of the computational component of the project namely, an electronic dictionary and a multimedia database which would provide an innovative mechanism of storing, processing and retrieving oral and written dialectal data

A morphological processor for Modern Greek

In this paper, we present a morphological pro- cessor for Modern Greek

A Formal Model for the Representation of Processes having an Internal Structure

In this paper, we propose a formalization of relations between processes having an internal structure using the formalism of generalized intervals [Bestougeff and Ligozat (1992), Ligozat (1991), Ligozat (1996)]. The main temporal object of this formalism is an increasing sequence of typed boundaries called a “poly-typed ” string and is used for the representation of a complex event or state. The typing of the boundaries allows reasoning over the degree of completion of actions. In particular, we deal with the relations of causation and enablement grouped under the notion of consequentiality [Moens (1987)], which constitutes the cognitive basis of the tripartite ontology of events [Moens and Steedman (1988)]. We propose a formalization of this notion of consequentiality that proves to be indispensable to artificial intelligence tasks involving temporal and causal relations in natural language. Keywords: knowledge based systems, artificial intelligence, cognitive scienc

ALIGNING, ANNOTATING AND LEMMATIZING A CORPUS FOR THE VALIDATION OF BALKAN WORDNETS

In this paper we discuss the usage of corpora in the validation of WordNets and we present the exploitation of the Greek version of George Orwell´s Nineteen Eighty-Four for the construction and validation of the Greek WordNet, which is currently under development in the framework of the BalkaNet project. In particular, we focus on the description of tools that were developed and used for the alignment, the annotation and the lemmatization of the corpus. 1

Using a Lemmatizer to Support the Development and Validation of the Greek WordNet

In this paper we aim to give a description of the computational tools that have been designed and implemented to support the development and validation process of the Greek WordNet, which is currently being developed in the framework of the BalkaNet project. In particular, we focus on the description of a lemmatizer for the Greek language, which has been used as the basis for a number of tools supporting the linguists in their work of developing and validating the Greek WordNet