Papers by Ada Wan
Visualizing the “Dictionary of Regionalisms of France” (DRF) (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | a corpus of regionalisms, parts of speech and recognition rates is published in the Dictionnaire des Régionalismes de France. |
| Approach: | They propose to curate and analyze the corpus of regionalisms published in the Dictionnaire des Régionalismes de France. |
| Outcome: | The corpus contains all entries in the DRF for which recognition rates were recorded . the analysis compares with previous work on regionalalisms and atlas . |
Tel(s)-Telle(s)-Signs: Highly Accurate Automatic Crosslingual Hypernym Discovery (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | a heuristic that exploits morphological cues in French to uniquely identify hypernyms is used in other languages . a recent study shows that this heuriistic is more informative than its English counterpart . |
| Approach: | They propose a hypernym discovery heuristic that leverages morphological cues in French . they exploit morphology in the trigger phrase tel-1 que to uniquely identify the correct hypernaym . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method exploits morphological cues in French to uniquely identify hypernyms . it can be used in other languages, and it is more accurate than its English counterpart . |