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Information retrievalLanguage learning and language
teachingAutomatic translationSummarizationQuestion answeringDictionary developmentKnowledge discovery
Language Engineering at CRL
Field Guide Locations
Habitat Mainly deciduous forests and woodlands; often seen over adjacent farmlands.
Nesting 2 whitish eggs, heavily marked with dark brown, placed without nest or lining in a crevice in rocks, in a hollow tree, or in a fallen hollow log.
Range Breeds from southern British Columbia, central Saskatchewan, Great Lakes, and New Hampshire southward. Winters in Southwest, and in East northward to southern New England.
Tipster/MUC Named Entity TaskSeven Page Task Definition
Multi-name expressions containing conjoined modifiers (with elision of the head of one conjunct) should be marked up as separate expressions.
"North and South America" <ENAMEX TYPE="LOCATION">North</ENAMEX> and <ENAMEX TYPE="LOCATION">South America</ENAMEX>
+ Gazetteer – from USGS and National Geographic
Scotland (CITY) Alabama (PROVINCE 1) United States (COUNTRY)Scotland (CITY) Arkansas (PROVINCE 1) United States (COUNTRY)Scotland (CITY) California (PROVINCE 1) United States (COUNTRY)Scotland (CITY) Connecticut (PROVINCE 1) United States (COUNTRY)Scotland (CITY) Florida (PROVINCE 1) United States (COUNTRY)Scotland (CITY) Georgia (PROVINCE 1) United States (COUNTRY)Scotland (CITY) Indiana (PROVINCE 1) United States (COUNTRY)Scotland (CITY) Maine (PROVINCE 1) United States (COUNTRY)Scotland (CITY) Maryland (PROVINCE 1) United States (COUNTRY)Scotland (CITY) Massachusetts (PROVINCE 1) United States (COUNTRY)Scotland (CITY) Mississippi (PROVINCE 1) United States (COUNTRY)Scotland (CITY) Missouri (PROVINCE 1) United States (COUNTRY)Scotland (CITY) New Hampshire (PROVINCE 1) United States (COUNTRY)Scotland (CITY) Ohio (PROVINCE 1) United States (COUNTRY)Scotland (CITY) Pennsylvania (PROVINCE 1) United States (COUNTRY)Scotland (CITY) South Dakota (PROVINCE 1) United States (COUNTRY)Scotland (CITY) Texas (PROVINCE 1) United States (COUNTRY)Scotland (CITY) Virginia (PROVINCE 1) United States (COUNTRY)Scotland (PROVINCE 1) United Kingdom (COUNTRY)Scotland (PROVINCE 2) Missouri (PROVINCE 1) United States (COUNTRY)
MINDS
User configurable summarization system based on sentence selection
Summarizes documents in Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, Korean, and English
Summaries can be biased to favor place names, or other named entities
Basic Summarization Method
Document structure analysisKeyword analysisPart of Speech and Proper Name
RecognitionSentence selection based on weighted
scores
Boas: “A Linguist in the Box”
Boas is a semi-automatic knowledge elicitation system that guides a language speaker through the process of developing the static knowledge sources for a moderate-quality, broad-coverage MT system from any “low-density” language into English in about six months.
One of the tasks is translating a long list of place names from English into the source language.
The ethnologist and linguist Franz Boas was the founder of the American school of descriptive linguistics.
In this photo, circa 1900?, he is shown posing for a model which was being made of a Kwakuitl Winter Ceremonial dancer in which the dancer emerges from within a circular hole cut in the dancing screen.
ATS – Differences in Arabic األقطار في اللغوية االختالفات
العربية
Document Collection
Morphological Analysis
Information Retrieval
Sub-corpus Analysis
Explore differences in lexical usage due to –
•Transliteration
•Cultural background(west – French, east – English)
•Spelling differences
For example –
AIDS االيدز ,SIDA السيدا
الأوبيك ,OPEP الأوبيبOPEC
,Teacher (Algeria)الأستاذ
Teacher (Oman)االستاذ
Arabic Speaking Countries
Word AFP English Occurrences
لوس انجليس Los Angeles 21
انجلوس لوس Los Angeles 23
لوس انجيلس Los Angeles 2
لوس انجيليس Los Angeles 34
انجلترا England 2
انكلتر England 1
انكلترا England 1
كاروالينا Carolina 26
كارولينا Carolina 14
ويسكونسين Wisconsin 8
ويسكنسن Wisconsin 2
ويسكونسن Wisconsin 16
نيوهامبشير New Hampshire 15
نيوهامبشر New Hampshire 9
Different Spelling Forms from AFP Arabic Newswire
Place Names Transliterated using National Name
Word Transliteration English Name
شارلوت Sharlote Charlotte
المانيا Alemania Germany
اوروبا Europa Europe
موسكو Moscou Moscow
طرابلس Tarabulus Tripoli
الكويت Al Kuwayt Kuwait
باولوس Paulos Pauls
بروكسل Brussells Brussels
برلين Berlien Berlin
فلسطين Palestina Palestine
بريطانيا Britania Britain
بيروت Bayreuth Beirut
الغوس Lagus Lagos
Meaning Oriented Question Answering -
MOQAAn AQUAINT project by:
Computing Research Laboratory (NMSU)
Institute for Language and Information Technology (UMBC)
CoGenTex, Inc.
This work was supported in full by the Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA)’s
Advanced Question Answering for Intelligence (AQUAINT) Program under contract number
2002*H167200*000.
Search FormSearch Form
ILIT
Domain Travels
Meetings
Languages
English
Persian
Arabic
Method
Fact Repository from Text
Ontology based:
- Text Retrieval
- Text Analysis
- Question Analysis
ResultsResults
Text Meaning Representation proposition _1
head %exit_1• agent human_54 “Mr. Smith”
• source location_23 “London”
• destination location_25 “Ankara”
• means vehicle_65 “Boeing 757” tmr-time
• time-begin YYYYMMDD “July 2, 2000” aspect
• iteration single; phase end… “departed” polarity positive mood indicative
Resources
U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FEDERAL GEOGRAPHIC DATA COMMITTEE NATIONAL IMAGERY AND MAPPING
AGENCYU.S. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT U.S. FOREST SERVICE US CENSUS BUREAUGETTY THESAURUS OF GEOGRAPHIC
NAMES
Resources from (and for) the Humanities are Multilingual!
Computers and the Visual Arts: Editorial
... These developments led a branch of the Comité Internationale Pour l'Histoire de
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... stata da tempo recepita dalla comunità internazionale degli studiosi che, nell’ambito
del gruppo di lavoro TAU (Thesaurus Artis Universalis), ha costituito ...
www.ibc.regione.emilia-romagna.it/soprintendenza/ arcaut/lattanzi.html -
ID: 7013032 Record Type: administrative
Edmonton (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 53 34 00 N degrees minutes
Long: 113 25 00 W degrees minutes
Note: Located on N Saskatchewan river; flourished as center for agricultural distribution & processing after arrival of Canadian Pacific Railway 1891; petroleum was discovered nearby at Leduc, Redwater & Pembina mid-20th cen.
Names:
Edmonton (preferred, C,V,N)
Strathcona (H,V,N) ............ formerly located on river's S bank; absorbed into city 1912
Ft. Edmonton (H,V,N) ............ fur-trading post for Hudson's Bay Company constructed 20 miles downstream from current site 1795; abandoned 1810
Getty Record for Edmonton
Hierarchical Position:
World (facet (hierarchical))
North and Central America (continent)
Canada (nation)
Alberta (province)
Edmonton (inhabited place)
Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)............ expanded in 19th cen.
city (C) ............ incorporated 1904
provincial capital (C) ............since 1905
industrial center (C)
transportation center (C)
university center (C)
Getty Record for Edmonton (Contd.)
Address Data Content Standard
Public Review Draft
Subcommittee on Cultural and Demographic Data
Federal Geographic Data Committee
April 17, 2003
Version 2
http://www.fgdc.gov/