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1998

Pelletier, Francis J.

Introduction: This is a book of articles about a new theoretical underpinning for computational linguistics. Despite this narrow and technical aim, it contains much that is of interest to philosophers of mind, epistemologists, and philosophers of language, regardless of whether they also have an...

2015-01-30

Daskalaki, Evangelia

SSHRC Awarded CG 2015: Funding to support an academic conference entitled "Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives (DETEC)", at the University of Alberta, from June 17-19, 2015. The conference will address theoretical issues concerning what linguistic...

2017-10-08

Beck, David

SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: The project will document languages belonging to the Central Totonac branch of the Totonacan language family, which are in danger of extinction. Languages contain irreplaceable records of a people's knowledge of their natural environment and their cultural, social, and...

Fall 2017

Nicolai, Garrett J

Inflectional morphology presents numerous problems for traditional computational models, not least of which is an increase in the number of rare types in any corpus. Although few annotated corpora exist for morphologically complex languages, it is possible for lay-speakers of the language to...

2018-10-29

Arppe, Antti

SSHRC PG awarded 2019: In response to the well-documented threats to Indigenous cultures and languages, this Partnership project will support the revitalization and sustained daily use of multiple Indigenous languages by developing modern technological tools and resources for these languages in...

Fall 2020

Habibi, Amir Ahmad

Distinguishing between homonymy and polysemy can facilitate Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), as WSD systems use the standard sense inventories that are excessively fine-grained and include many polysemous senses. We classify words as either homonymous or polysemous by building graphs of word...

2022-05-04

Daniel Benedict Dacanay

This thesis shall address the nature of, and various possible approaches to, semantic classification in a bilingual dictionary setting, in this instance, in that of a low-resource language (Plains Cree/nêhiyawêwin, ISO:crk). In doing this, we shall discuss the distinct, yet partially overlapping...

Fall 2024

Dacanay, Daniel B.

In writing this thesis, I aim to accomplish three primary objectives, all of which are intended to increase the quality and quantity of language resources available in Woods Cree (nîhithawîwin, ISO:cwd). Firstly, I provide here a thorough descriptive overview of the Woods Cree phonological and...