Do Political Institutions Affect the Choice of the U.S. Cross-Listing Venue?

We study the impact of political institutions on foreign firms’ choice of their U.S. cross-listing venue. Using two measures of political institutions (an index of political rights and a political constraint index) and controlling for various firm-level and country-level characteristics, we show that foreign firms from countries with weak political institutions are more likely to cross-list in the U.S. via the over-the-counter market and less likely to opt for an exchange-listed program (i.e., New York, Nasdaq, and AMEX).Cross-listing, Political institutions, Legal institutions

Les Entités Nommées : usage et degrés de précision et de désambiguïsation

International audienceThe recognition and classification of Named Entities (NER) are regarded as an important component for many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. The classification is usually made by taking into account the immediate context in which the NE appears. In some cases, this immediate context does not allow getting the right classification. We show in this paper that the use of an extended syntactic context and large-scale resources could be very useful in the NER task

Extraction terminologique et corpus alignés Anglais Grec.

International audienceL'objectif de notre recherche est d'extraire de la terminologie bilingue à parti des textes alignés. L'alignement s'opère avec le logiciel UNITEX à partir de textes du domaine des télécommunications grecs (GR) et anglais (EN). Pour le repérage des termes dans les textes nous avons utilisé des grammaires locales avec l'exploitation du contexte immédiat. Les grammaires utilisées comportent plusieurs graphes qui ont été élaborés au sein de l'Institut Gaspard Monge et de l'Université Aristote de Thessalonique

Extending the adverbial coverage of a French morphological lexicon

International audienceWe present an extension of the adverbial entries of the French morphological lexicon DELA (Dictionnaires Electroniques du LADL / LADL electronic dictionaries). Adverbs were extracted from LGLex, a NLP-oriented syntactic resource for French, which in its turn contains all adverbs extracted from the Lexicon-Grammar tables of both simple adverbs ending in -ment (i.e., '-ly') (Molinier and Levrier, 2000) and compound adverbs (Gross, 1986b; Gross, 1986a). This work exploits fine-grained linguistic information provided in existing resources. The resulting resource is reviewed in order to delete duplicates and is freely available under the LGPL-LR license

Extraction de citations contenues dans des documents brevet

International audienceLe présent article s'inscrit dans une démarche générale d'élaboration d'outils et de méthodes d'analyse permettant de caractériser les activités scientifiques et techniques. Le nombre de publications scientifiques numériques est de plus en plus important. Nous nous intéressons plus particulièrement ici au repérage et à l'extraction automatique de citations et de références contenues dans des documents, en anglais, de type brevet d'inventions. La méthode utilisée repose sur une approche symbolique qui fait appel à la création et l'utilisation combinée de dictionnaires électroniques et de grammaires locales. L'outil de traitement de corpus Unitex est utilisé pour l'élaboration et l'application de ces ressources linguistiques à un corpus d'étude

Anatomie, animaux, vocabulaire de la vivisection

Introduction Le projet de recherche Animalhumanité visait à réunir chercheuses et chercheurs en littérature, sciences du vivant et informatique pour des travaux sur l’expérimentation et la fiction mettant l’animalité au cœur du vivant, en valorisant à la fois les fonds des collections du musée Fragonard et le fonds ancien de la bibliothèque de l’EnvA, École nationale vétérinaire d’Alfort. En raison de la non-disponibilité en version numérique des ouvrages du fonds ancien, nous nous sommes con..

Martizay – Saint-Romain

Les campagnes de fouilles des années 1960 et 1970 avaient permis de mettre en évidence, sous les couches gallo-romaines, grâce à la présence de tessons de céramique, des niveaux du Néolithique et de l’âge du Bronze (Soubrier, Marquet 1979). Le mobilier a été revu récemment par Roland Irribarria (Inrap) et Anne Hauzeur (Paléotime) qui en ont confirmé le grand intérêt et l’âge néolithique moyen I. Nous avons pu d’autre part avoir accès au mobilier non tourné néolithique et protohistorique prove..

The multinational second Diabetes, Attitudes, Wishes and Needs study: results of the French survey

International audienceAIM:The second Diabetes, Attitudes, Wishes and Needs (DAWN2™) multinational cross-sectional study was aimed at generating insights to facilitate innovative efforts by people with diabetes (PWD), family members (FMs), and health care professionals (HCPs) to improve self-management and psychosocial support in diabetes. Here, the French data from the DAWN2™ study are described.METHODS:In France, 500 PWD (80 with type 1 diabetes [T1] and 420 with type 2 diabetes [T2]), 120 FMs, and 288 HCPs were recruited. The questionnaires assessed the impact of diabetes on quality of life and mood, self-management, attitudes/beliefs, and care/support.RESULTS:Diabetes negatively impacted the emotional well-being of 59% of people with T1 versus 45% of people with T2 (P<0.05) and about half of FMs. A high level of distress was felt by about half of PWD and FMs. About half of HCPs reported assessing depression in their patients. Sixty-two percent of FMs considered managing diabetes to be a burden. Hypoglycemia was a source of concern for 64% of people with T1 and 73% of FMs of insulin users. About two-thirds of non-insulin-medicated people with T2 agreed to start insulin if prescribed, while half of HCPs preferred to delay insulin initiation. A discrepancy between HCPs' perceptions of their interactions with their patients and PWD's recollection of these interactions with regard to patients' personal needs and distress was also observed.CONCLUSION:While distress remains under-assessed by HCPs, the negative impact of diabetes on the lives of PWD and FMs clearly induces distress on both groups. These findings provide new understanding of barriers precluding optimal management of diabetes. Developing strategies to overcome these barriers is now warranted

Multiword expressions: Insights from a multi-lingual perspective

Multiword expressions (MWEs) are a challenge for both the natural language applications and the linguistic theory because they often defy the application of the machinery developed for free combinations where the default is that the meaning of an utterance can be predicted from its structure. There is a rich body of primarily descriptive work on MWEs for many European languages but comparative work is little. The volume brings together MWE experts to explore the benefits of a multilingual perspective on MWEs. The ten contributions in this volume look at MWEs in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Maori, Modern Greek, Romanian, Serbian, and Spanish. They discuss prominent issues in MWE research such as classification of MWEs, their formal grammatical modeling, and the description of individual MWE types from the point of view of different theoretical frameworks, such as Dependency Grammar, Generative Grammar, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Lexicon Grammar