Papers by Stella Markantonatou
iii -MWEs and constructions in language acquisition and in non-standard language (e.g. tweets, fo... more iii -MWEs and constructions in language acquisition and in non-standard language (e.g. tweets, forums, spontaneous speech) -Evaluation of annotation and processing techniques for MWEs and constructions -Retrospective comparative analyses from the PARSEME shared tasks on automatic identification of MWEs We received 37 submissions (21 long and 16 short papers). We selected 12 long papers and 8 short ones. From those, 6 papers were presented orally and the remaining 14 as posters. The overall acceptance rate was 54%. Of the 20 presented papers, 6 concerned both wordnets and MWEs, which makes us believe that the intended synergy effect has been achieved. In addition to the oral and poster sessions, the workshop featured an invited talk, given by Aline Villavicencio. We are grateful to the paper authors for their valuable contributions, the members of the Program Committee for their thorough and timely reviews, all members of the organizing committee for the fruitful collaboration, and to all the workshop participants for their interest in this event. Our thanks also go to the ACL 2019 organizers for their support, as well as to SIGLEX and GWA for their endorsement.
Morphologically annotated corpora of Pomak
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages
Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism, 2019
In the framework of the ongoing development of an application that both offers a multilingual, co... more In the framework of the ongoing development of an application that both offers a multilingual, comprehensive (ingredients, nutritional properties, cultural context, location) presentation of the culinary wealth of Central and East Macedonia and Thrace and draws on OCR and Machine Translation techniques, we develop an ontology of national and local foods and wines supported by a standards compatible multilingual thesaurus. We talk about the problems encountered in the particular terminological domain and outline our methodology of populating the thesaurus.
As part of our project entitled "GRE-Taste: The Taste of Greece," we have been developi... more As part of our project entitled "GRE-Taste: The Taste of Greece," we have been developing a trilingual (Greek, English and Russian) thesaurus of food served in restaurants in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. To this end, we have designed a web thesaurus development environment, and have defined facets and subfacets corresponding to the following major categories: Foods (both as ingredients and as dishes); drinks; food sources (and parts thereof); places of origin; preparation methods; functions; state; and, nutrition. For each concept, the preferred (most common) and non-preferred (synonym and hidden) terms are entered; nutritional, cultural and other information appear in separate fields, as do the relationships between concepts (e.g. between a dish and its ingredients, cooking methods or place of origin). In this paper, we examine how the Langual thesaurus can be used to code foods, and as well as the issues involved in the process, such as those related to confusing descri...
Int. J. Art Cult. Des. Technol., 2020
This is a study on language and action that tries to shed light on their conceptual correspondenc... more This is a study on language and action that tries to shed light on their conceptual correspondence in terms of embodiment. The linguistic phenomenon of lexical aspect/Aktionsart is studied in connection to joint angles and time. For the purposes of this research, data concerning the usage of a set of Modern Greek verbs were collected and annotated; in addition, motion data were captured for the same verbs. First, the distance between actions and verbs was calculated revealing a strong connection between certain types of language data, lower limb motion, and time: an extended use of the lower limbs is related to longer or repetitive actions while time expresses duration.
Cross-lingual linking of multi-word entities and language-dependent learning of multi-word entity... more Cross-lingual linking of multi-word entities and language-dependent learning of multi-word entity patterns
Development of a Conceptual Lexicon with ontological techniques
Μαθηματικές έννοιες ανάλυσης φυσικών και φορμαλιστικών γλωσσών
Μηχανική Μeτάφραση [ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤEΛEΙΟ ΠΑΝEΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ ΘEΣ/ΝΙΚΗΣ, ΣΧΟΛΗ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΚΗ, ΤΜΗΜΑ ΓΑΛΛΙΚΗΣ ΓΛΩΣΣΑΣ... more Μηχανική Μeτάφραση [ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤEΛEΙΟ ΠΑΝEΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ ΘEΣ/ΝΙΚΗΣ, ΣΧΟΛΗ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΚΗ, ΤΜΗΜΑ ΓΑΛΛΙΚΗΣ ΓΛΩΣΣΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΦΙΛΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ]
Contrasting the Conceptual Lexicon of ILSP (CL-ILSP) with major lexicographic examples
International Journal of Computational Methods in Heritage Science, 2018
Coupling culture and education has attracted significant attention and pushed towards the replace... more Coupling culture and education has attracted significant attention and pushed towards the replacement of the typical STEM model into STEAM. An effective integration of culture in the everyday educational practice, empowered by game-based storytelling has already shown great potential in transforming the way people are exposed to and grasp knowledge. This paper presents an attempt to put culture, education, gaming and storytelling together. Myth Trek was a game developed using state-of-the-art gaming technology, and integrated elements going back in time all the way to the ancient Greek mythology, embedding a time-distorted history onto the present day's landscape in the center of the city of Athens, with an aim to save Athens from complete annihilation. In a playful action/adventure gaming setting, the game mixes mythology, history, architecture and the environment to expose players to the long history of Athens.
Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2017), 2017
Identifying multiword expressions (MWEs) in a sentence in order to ensure their proper processing... more Identifying multiword expressions (MWEs) in a sentence in order to ensure their proper processing in subsequent applications, like machine translation, and performing the syntactic analysis of the sentence are interrelated processes. In our approach, priority is given to parsing alternatives involving collocations, and hence collocational information helps the parser through the maze of alternatives, with the aim to lead to substantial improvements in the performance of both tasks (collocation identification and parsing), and in that of a subsequent task (machine translation). In this paper, we are going to present our system and the procedure that we have followed in order to participate to the open track of the PARSEME shared task on automatic identification of verbal multiword expressions (VMWEs) in running texts.
resources to predict the compositionality of MWEs. The program also included a panel discussion o... more resources to predict the compositionality of MWEs. The program also included a panel discussion on the future directions of the MWE community and the SIGLEX Section. We would like to thank the members of the program committee for the timely reviews, authors for their valuable contributions, shared task organizers, annotators, and system developers for their hard work, and all involved participants for their interest in the workshop. We also want to thank the IC1207 COST Action PARSEME and SIGLEX for their endorsement and support, as well as the EACL 2017 organizers.
Semantic syntax by Pieter A. M. Seuren (review)
Language, 1998
Machine Translation, 2008
METIS-II was a EU-FET MT project running from October 2004 to September 2007, which aimed at tran... more METIS-II was a EU-FET MT project running from October 2004 to September 2007, which aimed at translating free text input without resorting to parallel corpora. The idea was to use 'basic' linguistic tools and representations and to link them with patterns and statistics from the monolingual target-language corpus. The METIS-II project has four partners, translating from their 'home' languages Greek, Dutch, German, and Spanish into English. The paper outlines the basic ideas of the project, their implementation, the resources used, and the results obtained. It also gives examples of how METIS-II has continued beyond its lifetime and the original scope of the project. On the basis of the results and experiences obtained, we believe that the approach is promising and offers the potential for development in various directions.
Discriminating the Registers and Styles in the Modern Greek Language-Part 1: Diglossia in Stylistic Analysis
Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2004
... 19, No. 2, 2004 223 Discriminating the Registers and Styles in the Modern GreekLanguagePart ... more ... 19, No. 2, 2004 223 Discriminating the Registers and Styles in the Modern GreekLanguagePart 2 ... 2 An Overview of Stylistics Studies in the Greek Language To date, a limited set of stylometric studies have been performed for texts written in Modern Greek. ...
In this paper we report on the set of controlled language specifications defined for Modern Greek... more In this paper we report on the set of controlled language specifications defined for Modern Greek and the development of the respective style checker. We will focus on the effectiveness and suitability of these specifications by assessing the performance of a commercial machine translation system over controlled texts and will comment on the evaluation results. For our experiments we have used the SYSTRAN MT system (English-into-Greek language pair). We will show that an improvement in translation is feasible, when a text compliant with controlled language specifications enters a MT system. Finally, we will propose a third parameter for setting CL specifications.
This paper focusses on the English adjectival resultative construction, as exemplified in exam-ples (1)-(4).(1) John hammered the metal at.(2) The river froze solid.(3) The dog barked itself hoarse
... and so on, for every kind of alternation, or de ne templates (constructions) that ... that En... more ... and so on, for every kind of alternation, or de ne templates (constructions) that ... that Englishresultatives are better dealt with with a predicate centered account whereby predicateslexically ... The approach follows HPSG in using a type hierarchy to structure the information domain ...
Linking indirect arguments and verb alternations in English
Proceedings of the Colloque Syntax et Semantique Paris, 1995
Ψυχή άσπρη σαν το χιόνι but never ψυχή άσπρη σαν το γάλα: semasio-syntactic comments on the fixed similes of Modern Greek
Using object noun and clitic frequencies in the study of transitivity in Modern Greek
Why several transitive verbs tend to omit their syntactic object is a linguistic puzzle. Levin (2... more Why several transitive verbs tend to omit their syntactic object is a linguistic puzzle. Levin (2000) argues that “cause”-a non aspectual semantic propertyrenders objects obligatory while clearly aspectual properties, such as “activity” and “accomplishment”, do not. Resnik (1996) argues that verbs that strongly select their objects, such as eat and drink, tend to drop them as easily recoverable. Goldberg (2005) considers object omission as both lexically specified and induced by certain grammatical constructions.
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