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AN.ANA.S.: aligning text to temporal syntagmatic progression in Treebanks
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1 Confirmation number: 209X-D4H0A6H1G3 AN.ANA.S.: aligning text to temporal syntagmatic progression in Treebanks Miriam Voghera Dipartimento di Studi linguistici e letterari University of Salerno Francesco Cutugno NLP-Group at Department of Physics University "Federico II", Naples 1. Introduction The impressive results derived from multimillion-word corpora and the experience gained in the automatic processing of syntactic data in the computational linguistics field in recent decades facilitates the pursuit of further objectives today. From a linguistic point of view, the final objective of any corpus-based description should be the construction of a usage-based model of grammar, which would be able to account for data in different registers and take into account the relationships among different levels of linguistic structure. This implies studying and describing language by using better tools and methods to build flexible linguistic annotation systems applicable to a great variety of texts through a full integration of computational and corpus linguistics. Two steps seem necessary. Firstly, computer science requires large amounts of 'certified data' to train and verify parsing algorithms and to generally implement processing schemes, aimed at the optimisation of both creating and querying syntactic databases. Secondly, the architecture of the syntactic annotation must be: 1) simple, to allow the integration of different sources of knowledge deriving from different corpora with original different description schemas; 2) accurate, to guarantee the optimal retrieval of information from the data; and 3) flexible, to allow internal changes, if necessary, and to nest the integration of new data. An important role is played by the querying process, which is aimed not only to collect data, but also to test the adequacy of the analysis. This produces a virtuous process, according to which the integration of new data can produce a better annotation scheme. In the last few years, the great development of syntactic parsing methods has produced many projects devoted to an even higher number of different languages (Abeillé ed. 2003). However, most of them have been dedicated to the parsing of formal written texts - mostly newspapers - while projects devoted to spoken material are still few in number. In fact, main efforts have been directed more to the enlargement of interlinguistic range of data than to intralinguistic variety. This is due to both theoretical and empirical reasons, which are deeply intertwined. Most of the current models of syntax are mainly based on written texts, and syntactic intralinguistic variation is barely considered theoretically relevant. Furthermore, many theoretical approaches do not work on spoken unrestricted data and therefore are not always adequate to cope with typical spoken phenomena. In fact, syntactic models are shaped on continuous texts and are not easily applicable to texts, such as dialogues, in which the verbal flow is constrained by on-line production/reception and turn-taking alternation. Although, spoken texts are the product of continuous linear processes, the dialogical form produces a 1
2 deeply discontinuous linguistic output. There is here an apparent paradox: the on-line production/reception of speech is physically continuous, but actually produces texts, which are deeply discontinuous. This is true because dialogue is the primary model of speech, and dialogue is by definition fragmented: interruptions, project changes, overlapping of the speakers, insertions of receiver are normal features of spontaneous dialogues In contrast, writing is a physically discontinuous process, which normally produces continuous texts. Since the beginning of systematic studies on spoken discourse, this posed, in fact, one of the major problems pertinent to the applicability of traditional syntactic categories (Sornicola 1981; Chafe 1988; Halliday 1989; Voghera 1992). Research developed in two directions, both of which focused on the irregularity as well as the eccentricity of spoken texts rather than on the inadequacy of linguistic models. The well-known grammar is grammar and usage is usage position (Newmayer 2003) maintains that corpus-based spoken analyses do not pertain to the theory of grammar, but reflect only performance features. This reduces, if not cancels, the necessity of a systematic analysis of spontaneous spoken data. Conversely, many corpus-based works dedicated to specific spoken features proved to be relevant for linguistic description, but focused mainly on the pragmatic-oriented features of spoken syntax. On this basis many scholars prefer to use different analysis units to describe the syntax of spoken texts, such as utterance and/or C-units (Biber et al. 1999; Cresti&Moneglia 2005). This produced alternative models of description and very interesting collection of data, but did not encourage the creation of unique syntactic model, which could take into account both spoken and written data, without renouncing to their specificity. While it is evident that speech can present many different forms of syntactic structures compared to written material, it is preferable to use the same syntactic categories in analysing spoken and written discourse, unless we think that speech respond to different grammatical criteria. A syntactic theory that would account for both written and spoken usages is a long-term objective and requires a deep reflection on the definition criteria of syntactic units. However, the solution cannot simply rely on a substitutive role of pragmatic factors to fill the gaps of our syntactic theories. In addition to the theoretical reasons we briefly outlined above, numerous empirical problems arise in parsing spontaneous spoken texts: disfluencies, interruptions, repair sequences etc. can dramatically affect the syntactic output of the text, rendering the recognition of syntactic constituents as well as their reciprocal relationship difficult. This makes the application of an annotation scheme conceived to analyse written texts to spoken ones, and vice versa, very complicated. In the past all these factors did not promote the creation of systems which could be applied to a different variety of spoken and written texts and/or to different languages. Most of the systems of syntactic annotation are in fact related to specific registers and are conceived as a self-sufficient/autonomous morpho-syntactic description of the corpus examined. Although some of them have served as the model of annotation schemes for other languages (Marcus et al. 1993; Abeillé ed. 2003), almost all projects have introduced language-specific changes. Moreover, a part from some exceptions (Burnard 2000), the application of an annotation scheme conceived to anale written texts to spoken ones usually implies many adjustments to reduce the spoken material to a sort of written version (cfr. 3.1.). Consequently it is very difficult to compare unrestricted spoken data and written ones This reduces the power of comparison and introduces the necessity of annotation translations, which are not at all easy or even possible (Ide&Romary 2003). Bearing in mind these difficulties, a joint project between the University of Salerno and the University of Naples Federico II was launched in 2003 to create a system for the syntactic annotation applicable to both spoken and written texts without constraining the analysis of the former to the analysis of the latter. The result is AN.ANA.S. (Annotazione Analisi Sintattica), a 2
3 public resource downloadable at the portal whose fourth version was tested on Italian, Spanish and English. 2. Design criteria of AN.ANA.S. The surface syntactic output of a spoken text can be strikingly different from that of a written text and pose numerous problems to the application of current standard models of syntax. The main objective of our project was to produce an annotation scheme suitable to both spoken and written texts, which would preserve all the richness of spoken texts, including the possibility of relating syntactic data with prosodic data. It well known that in spoken texts many syntactic boundaries as well as relations can be marked by both rhythmic and tone patterns. Yet, syntactic constituents can be the preferred domain of specific prosodic phenomena (Nespor&Vogel, 1986; Selkirk 1984, 2001; Voghera 1990). Two main problems arose immediately: firstly, prosodic patterns may span the entire phonic sequence, no matter if and to what extent they are well formed from the syntactic point of view; secondly, in spoken texts the turn-taking alternation can strongly affect both prosodic and syntactic output. The challenge was to build up a scheme which should render the linear succession of phonic signal compatible with the hierarchical syntactic organization, including potential turn-taking overlaps. These basic objectives underpin AN.ANA.S., an annotation system which has the following properties: 1) it aims to describe the basic syntactic feature of both spoken and written texts, allowing direct comparison; 2) it has a limited number of language-specific annotation tags, in order to widen the application to different languages; 3) it is aligned to temporal syntagmatic progression of the texts by requiring that the succession of the leaves in the trees be read from left to right, corresponding to the original parsed text; 4) it works on unrestricted texts, including all disfluencies as well as typical spoken elements, such as repetitions, retreat and repair sequences etc.; 5) in the case of dialogues, it respects the alternation of turns; 6) it is based on a set of symbols and rules which are reflected in a formal, computationally treatable, metadata structure expressed in terms of XML elements, sub-elements, attributes and dependencies among constituents resumed into a formal descriptive document (Document Type Definition - DTD); 7) it has a searchable interface; 8) it is addressed to linguists with little computational background, in order to increase the community of users. 3. General linguistic features of annotation architecture Studies on spoken texts of many different languages largely concur on the fact that spoken texts differ systematically from written ones. Though we can have many different spoken registers, there are properties which most of the spoken texts exhibit and which are crosslinguistically shared. In fact, spoken texts, even belonging to different diastratic and diaphasic registers, present similar regular features. Yet, spoken and written texts do not differ because they derive from different linguistic systems, but rather because they select the linguistic structures that are compatible with the semiotic and cognitive conditions in which speech and writing naturally take place. Therefore, we cannot properly speak of spoken grammar versus 3
4 written grammar, but of different linguistic uses adequate to spoken or written discourse conditions. On these grounds we aimed for a syntactic annotation that allows the least amount of structural complexity to guarantee the maximum intermodal comparison. In fact, AN.ANA.S. presents minimal basic level structures, allowing maximum readability by different theoretical approaches (Chen et al. 2003). This choice has the additional advantage of reducing the number of constituents and attribute tags. In fact, our scheme provides eight constituents versus the twenty-two constituents provided by the Venice Italian Treebank, consisting of both written and spoken texts (Montemagni et al. 2003) Textual features AN.ANA.S. marks general textual information on the macrostructure of the texts. We inserted textual information, which places more constraints on the syntactic output of a text: (a) the genre (narrative, descriptive etc.); (b) the context of production (monologue vs. dialogue); (c) the performance setting (free vs. non-free interaction, elicited text). The three parameters listed above have been proved to be strongly related to different syntactic architecture. Difference of genre is connected both to the presence of additive vs. hierarchical syntax and to high vs. low lexical density (Voghera 2008). Many syntactic differences depend on the distinction between monologue and dialogues, among the others degree and depth of dependency and length/duration of syntactic constituents (Halliday 1985). The distinction between monologues and dialogues implies the tagging of turns vs. paragraphs. In the case of dialogues, turns are tagged and the syntactic annotation respect turntaking alternation. This distinguishes AN.ANA.S. from other spoken treebanks, in which the speech of a single speaker is included in a unique continuous turn, even when it is interrupted by the insertion of other speakers (cfr. Christine Project). In the case of monologues the annotation provides a tag for each paragraph. The paragraphs are identified on both semantic and prosodic basis. Hence, the syntactic annotation develops within the textual constituents of turns and paragraphs. Many features of the syntactic architecture derive from the basic requirement of producing an annotation aligned to the syntagmatic progression of texts. In fact, the annotation must reflect word order and cannot be purely dependency-based. Therefore, we adopted a hybrid framework, similar to frameworks in use in other treebanks (Abeillé et al. 2003; Brants&Uszkoreit 2003; Kurohashi&Nagao 2003), annotating both constituents and functional relations. Since we parsed both free and non-free word order languages, such a scheme is particularly efficient Syntactic features AN.ANA.S. allows the organization of syntactic units within a hierarchical structure. Constituent relations are coded directly using elements nesting XML properties, passing over the conventional approach adopted in the Penn Treebank (Marcus et al. 1993) in which bracketed constituents are stored in simple ASCII files see Figure 1. 4
5 (S (NP-SBJ-1 The ball) (VP was (VP thrown (NP *-1) (PP by (NP-LGS Chris))))) (a) <<S> <NP type= SBJ id= 1345 > The ball</np> <VP> was <VP> thrown <NP idref= 1345 </NP> <PP> by <NP type= LGS > Chris </NP> </PP> </VP> </VP> </S> Figure 1: (a) an example of Penn syntactic annotation using parenthesisation and (b) a possible translation into an XML format. (b) Since our main goal was to produce a comparable description of different texts, we followed the principle of minimizing the structural complexity of the annotation. In this respect, we follow the general principle stated by the British National Corpus compilers (Eyes 1996), according to which the annotation should only present information which is recoverable by the context. This choice is particularly relevant as far as spoken material is concerned. In fact, we wanted avoid the temptation of considering spoken syntax as a reduced form of the written one. Consequently, the annotation reflects surface syntax: this not only encourages a wider application of AN.ANA.S to different data, but produces a annotation readable from different theoretical approaches. The parsing of unrestricted spoken texts, in which repetitions, false starts and disfluencies are very frequent, required a non-context free annotation. Constituents are attached to parent or sibling nodes without any intermediate X bar nodes, providing information for both terminal and non-terminal elements. In order to preserve the alignment to the text, we do not use null elements or functional phrases (DP or CP). Since the analysis is based on a creation of trees in a linear sequence, in addition to the traditional syntactic constituents, we include the typical spoken elements as a node into the annotation scheme. Therefore discourse markers, repair-and-retreat sequences, repetitions of words or longer sequences, which can occur in case of interruptions or overlapping speech, are annotated within the syntactic scheme. In (1) and (2) we give the annotation of two cases of repetitions and false starts. In the presented and following examples in which an XML annotation is shown, we will omit elements not relevant for the specific description (substituting them in some cases with: #...#) or rename some tags or tag attributes to increment the readability of the example. (1) He was/he just thinks it s all a complete joke <sentence n_of_clauses="2"> <clause type="m" n_of_phrases="2"> <RR>he was</rr> <NP #...#>he</np> <VP #...#> just thinks <clause>a complete joke </VP> </sentence> 5
6 (2) We re/we do/ we re doing s+ very similar kinds of things at work at the moment <sentence n_of_clauses="1"> <clause type="m" n_of_phrases="6"> <RR>we're</RR> <RR>we do</rr> <NP lexeme="we" "#other descriptors#>we</np> <VP lexeme="to do"#other descriptors#>'re doing </VP> <RR>s+</RR> <**remaining annotations**> very similar kinds of things at work at the moment </remaining annotations> </sentence> We distinguish false starts from isolated words, which are not reasonably connected to any other element and to which is not possible to assign a definite syntactical position. In this case we mark the word, such as tutta in (3), by the tag ISO (Isolated): (3) (...) perché se prendiamo un singolo episodio tutta lit. ( ) because if take-1pl. a single episode all-fem. because if we consider a single episode all As far as the overlapping of multiple speech sources is concerned, the annotation is directly based on the completed orthographic transcription. Overlaps are coded using cross reference tags on words that are uttered simultaneously as it is established in the CLIPS transcription guidelines (http://www.clips.unina.it; Cutugno&Savy in this volume). In principle, we do not take into account overlaps in the syntactical analysis unless they fail to interrupt a dialogic turn. When this happens, specific attributes indicate interruption and link to the eventual turn which recommences further on. Accordingly, the list of constituents is the following: PARAGRAPH Sequence marked by a full stop in written texts TURN Dialogical turn SENTENCE Sentence CLAUSE Clause NP Noun Phrase VP Verb Phrase PP Prepositional Phrase PredP Predicative phrase either in copular or in verbless clause CONJ Conjunction either between phrases or clause HES Hesitation when it constitutes a turn REP Repetition RR Retreat and Repair sequence DM Discourse marker 6
7 CONTIN ISO Marks parts of discontinuous elements Isolated word Sentences, clauses and phrases are defined by a set of attributes, which can express different kinds of information, depending on the type of constituent: internal properties of constituents degree and type of dependency functional information predicate-argument structure lexical information constituents order Internal constituency information and degree and type of dependency Information about internal constituency increases as we go deeper into the syntactic hierarchy. This means that maximum information is given within the phrase. Sentences and clauses are marked as far as the number of dependent nodes is concerned; syntactic role is annotated for clauses. As is well known, (Sornicola 1981; Voghera 1992; Cresti&Moneglia eds. 2005), in speech a significant part of utterances is constituted by clauses without a verbal nucleus, such as in examples (4) through (6): (4) Tutti in macchina! Everyone in the car! (5) Una più grande e una più piccola one bigger one smaller (6) La terza sì the third yes These utterances must be distinguished from typical elliptical sentences because they do not present gaps and/or elements recoverable from a previous full sentential source (Merchant 2001; 2006), such as in cases of VP ellipsis (Barton 2006). The AN.ANA.S. annotation scheme marks such clauses as verbless and marks, when necessary, any predicate that is not a VP as PredP (predicative phrase), as we show in (3): (7) una più grande una più piccola lit. one more big one more small one bigger one smaller <sentence n_of_clauses="1"> <clause type="vl" n_of_phrases="2"> <NP #...#> una <PredP#...#>più grande</predp> </NP> <clause type="vl" n_of_phrases="2"> <NP #...#> una <PredP #...#>più piccola</pp> </NP> 7
8 </sentence> The annotation scheme does not reserve extra nodes for null elements nor for elliptic elements. Information on dropped subjects or null subjects is given in the VP tagset; infinitive subordinate clauses are simply given the attribute null in the Clause tag LINK; interrogative and relative pronouns such as which and what are tagged as NPs subject or object. In each phrase, we mark the syntactic head and the presence of modifiers. This is relevant to mark the syntactic weight of phrases, for which we have a specific tag. The syntactic weight is calculated by counting the number of dependent nodes combined with the number of head modifiers (Wasov 1997; Szmerecśanyi 2004; Voghera et al. 2004; Voghera&Turco 2008). Discontinuous constituents are labelled by the use of co-indexing and interposed constituents are labelled with a specific tag, as shown in (8) and (9): (8) Sometimes I think I m making it all up <sentence> <clause> <NP #...#>I</NP> <VP #...#>think <clause> <NP #...#>I</NP> <VP #...# dis_id="4">'m making <NP #...#>it all</np> <CONTIN dis_id_ref="4">up</contin> </VP> </sentence> (9) The I mean various aims (DM infra) <clause> <NP dis_id = 6 #...#> the <DM type= infra >I mean</dm> </NP> <CONTIN dis_idref="6">various aims</contin> Functional information, predicate-argument structure and constituents order Functional information, such as subject and object role, is inserted within the NP tagset. The predicate-argument structure is marked in the Clause tagset to distinguish argumental from circumstantial clauses. In the VP tagset we mark the number of predicted arguments for the lexical verbs and how many of them are saturated. The order of constituents is annotated for NP, VP and PP. We mark the SV and VO relative order as well as the order between PP and its modified elements. 8
9 3. 5. Lexical information Both single word and multiword phrasal heads are reported as lemma within the phrase tagset. We mark as multiword expressions idioms as well as complex lexemes which do not allow a compositional reading (Voghera 2004a), such as pollice verde (lit. green thumb= someone who is very skilled in gardening) or chiavi in mano (lit. keys in hand= all inclusive). Multiword tag is allowed for all parts of speech. 4. Computational aspects The relationship between the syntactic annotation and speech or text sequences As already stated, preserving textual linearity in the syntactical annotation has been considered a significant constraint in the definition of the data structure which we used to memorize our treebank. Although there is not a direct correspondence between syntagmatic linearity and syntactic structure either in speech or in writing, the two modality greatly differ, depending on the complex relationship among production/reception constraints and syntactic constructions. Two differences must be considered. Firstly, in speech the need to recall portions of text without the support of external memory determines a syntactic progression which tends to reproduce the sequence of events structuring information in serial patterns. Thus, the quantity of information develops through an additive process, which can easily be reconstructed, even in case of project changes or interruptions. Syntactically, this means short clauses that are not hierarchically structured, but rather adjoined to one another: in fact, a serial structure permits both speaker and hearer to progress step by step without overloading the memory and reducing the potential loss of information. On the contrary, writing allows for much more complex planning, and, above all, long-term calculation, that normally produces hierarchically related syntactic structures. Secondly, in speech on-line production and reception processes require continuous re-planning, which often causes interruptions, change of syntactic strategy and textual disfluences. In conclusion, although depending on different factors, both speech and writing present a high degree of misalignment between the syntagmatic progression of the text and the syntactic structure. In principle these differences could have allowed different solutions to preserve the linearity of our annotation. However, we tried to optimally preserve structural readability of the annotations, adopting a unified analysis framework that minimizes the differences in the constraints and in the description of spoken and written. The representation that we wish to obtain should ideally reconstruct the original text by simply reading the words in the tree leaves from left to right, avoiding word indexing as is usually carried out in many other projects (Montemagni, 2001, Carletta et al. 2005). One of the negative implications of word indexing that can be avoided with our system is the lack of control derived from involuntary misalignment between the words in the reference table and those in the trees. This can may be due to word deletion or insertion. The chosen solution facilitates the creation of a direct connection between syntactical and phonetic annotations in the case of spoken language and the realisation of tools able to perform queries on data structures obtained by merging time-aligned annotations with text-aligned annotations (Romano et al. 2009). Using word sequences as a sort of interfacing connector frame, we potentially project a determinate class of constituents on different time-dependent layers of linguistic structure such as prosodic, lexical and pragmatic. This will relate syntax to other 9
10 analyses, allowing phonetic-syntactic cross querying. Romano et al realised an integrated environment (Spoken Language Search Hawk - SpLaSH) for building and querying such complex data models. SpLaSH imposes a very limited number of constraints to the data model design, allowing the integration of annotations developed separately within the same dataset and without any relative dependency. A graphic representation of this data model is shown in Figure 2. Figure 2: time-aligned data (TMA) and text-aligned data (TXA). Dashed lines represent the link between the two kind of data in the connector frame (CF). This model integrates time-aligned level data (TMA) and text-aligned level data (TXA) usually derived by syntactic analysis. Arcs on TMA represent successions of acoustic events, which are connected to TXA through a connector frame (CF) that links tree leaves- usually words in the text with their proper order- with arcs representing words in the timeline. The annotation derived from this model reproduces the syntactic relations without altering the word order. Furthermore, the model provides a Guided User Interface allowing three types of queries: simple query on text-aligned annotations (TXA) or time-aligned ones (TMA), general search and sequence template matching on TMA structure and cross query on both TXA and TMA integrated structures. This choice of such a model is particularly suitable for relatively free-order languages, like Italian and Spanish, and in all the cases of marked word order, such as in (10). In this case we compare our annotation with two other different syntactic representations for the Italian clause la MELA mangia la mamma, where the Italian canonical word order SVO is modified in OVS to contrastively focus the object mela, so that the linear sequence contrasts with the normal syntactic expectations. (10) la mela mangia la mamma lit. the apple (obj) eats the mother (subj) it is the apple that the mother eats (not the peach) 10
11 Word Index Reference table w1 w2 w3 w4 w5 la mamma mangia la mela (a) (b) (c) Figure 3: A comparison among three different syntactic representations: (a) wordsequence independent annotation, (b) AN.ANA.S. solution preserving linearity, (c) separated word indexing annotation. 4.2 The metadata structure The element list- namely the tag-set- reflects the nature, the textual granularity and theoretical background that have been chosen for our work; dependencies are used to define the tree topology and usually admit recursion. Attributes describe further element properties but are also used to introduce some redundancy useful both to simplify information retrieval and to operate simple transformation due to changes required by future project revisions. Recursion, defined as the possibility of accepting nodes in the tree having one or more children belonging to the same (direct) or higher hierarchical grammatical class (indirect), is, in principle, always possible in our annotation system. In practice, direct recursion is present only in [clause-> clause] and [NP->NP] or [PP ->PP] derivation rules while indirect recursion appears only in the phrasal context. At the same time, cross references transforming the syntactic tree into a cyclic graph may occur in some cases to signal interruptions and restarts, or, more generally, to indicate that the syntactic continuity is not coherent with the temporal development of the text (Fig. 3). In this case one or more element, attributes are used to identify and link distant sub-constituents. Both recursion and sub-constituent cross references must be carefully taken into account when querying data to retrieve information. Recursion in some cases could not be computationally treatable or could lead to ambiguous situations (Cutugno&D Anna, 2006). In (11) and (12) we give respectively a case of annotation of recursion and subconstituents. 11
12 (11) Like Greg who saw John who met Mary <sentence> <clause> <PP #...#> like Greg <clause> <NP #...#>who</np> <VP #..#>saw <NP " #...#>John <clause> <NP #...#>who</np> <VP #...#>met <NP " #...#>Mary</NP> </VP> </NP> </VP> </PP> </sentence> (12) Like Greg who I used to go out with <sentence> <clause> <PP #...#> like Greg <clause> <PP dis_id="2" #...#>who</pp> <NP #...#>I</NP> <VP #..#>used to go out</vp> <CONTIN dis_id="2"> with </CONTIN> </PP> </sentence> XML editing and search tools have been produced (Cutugno&D Anna, 2008). These tools support editing and querying of XML files and at the same time implement a semiautomatic method to synchronize such files when the DTD is modified, due to an on-line change in the metadata structure. XML file editing is performed visually. The document is showed in its tree-like form, while tags and attributes are filled by the user as forms. Querying is based on XPath scripting (http://www.w3.org/tr/xpath), but is realize by a tool (XGATE) that uses a further visual interfaces that graphically implements most of the XPath syntax. The interface permits the iteration of queries by processing previous query results. Each query output is formatted as a new XML file, so that it can be queried again to further filter the data. The tool is freely available at in the Tools Section. 12
13 5. Pilot corpus Since our principal aim is to propose an annotation scheme applicable to a wide range of linguistic data, the pilot corpus has been built taking into account two relevant dimensions of variation: diamesic and interlinguistic. The size of different sections is reported in Figure 4. AN.ANA.S. Pilot Corpus Words Clauses Spoken Italian Written Italian Spoken English Spoken Spanish Written Italian as L Total Figure 4: internal composition of the corpus annotated in the AN.ANA.S. project. We started from the annotation of Italian spoken texts, because the initial aim of the project was to create a syntactic annotation parallel to prosodic annotation. Furthermore,the existing Italian treebanks are mainly focused on written material (Montemagni et al. 2003; Delmonte et al. 2007; Bosco et al. 2000; TUT). Spoken texts present features, such as turntaking and disfluencies, which could greatly affect the syntactic output and which the annotation should account for. In fact, the first nucleus of material consists of elicited spoken dialogues from the Clips corpus (http://www.clips.unina.it; Cutugno&Savy in this volume). The choice of task-oriented dialogues depends on the possibility of having both different material collected in the same contextual situation and dialogues produced by speakers of different regional varieties of Italian. The annotation of elicited dialogues has been compared with the annotation of spontaneous speech texts from the Clips corpus, mainly consisting of multiparty radio talk-show, in which even longer turns occur. To guarantee a relatively informal situation we chose shows broadcasted by regional networks. Both English and Spanish spoken texts have been adjoined to the Italian spoken material. The English section comprises one elicited dialogues, collected within a project of the University of Salerno on the creation of multilingual task-oriented dialogues, and conversations and radio news from the International Corpus of English GB section. Finally, the spoken Spanish section consists of a radio talk-show. The written section consists of only Italian texts from the Corpus Penelope (www.parlaritaliano.it). The Corpus Penelope was collected to represent the variety of syntactic types in written texts, which are highly available to the majority of Italian speakers ( italiano di alta circolazione ). Therefore, it includes not only typical prose texts, such as newspaper and magazine articles, essays, but also notes, machinery instructions, advertising, bureaucratic forms and bills. It is important to stress that writing does not wholly coincide with prose, i.e., with continuous formal texts, since a great variety of written data does not match with the prose-model. In fact, many of the written texts with which speakers come in contact are actually non-prose. Many of these texts do not show the typical verbal continuity of prose, but are rather discontinuous, basing their cohesion and coherence not only on the succession of verbal sequences, but also on the use of spatial devices. This affects their syntax, which presents a great variety of structures as well as a high percentage of non-canonical, well-formed sentences, usually considered a spoken prerogative (Sampson 2003; Progovac 2006;Voghera&Turco 2008). Therefore, to limit the description of writing to prose gives only a partial account of which model of syntax is compatible with the written mode. It excludes a great part of written material, which contributes to the representation of what writing is and plays an essential role in literacy skills in less-educated speakers. Hence, using only written prose means to 13
14 establish a unique point of comparison with spoken texts, i.e., the most formal and planned register. This gives the impression that written data is a uniform set of linguistic features that does not always correspond to the varieties of different structures actually present in written texts. An ideal corpus, designed to compare speech and writing, should include different level of planning and formality in both modalities, allowing better correlation between contextual constraints and linguistic features. Finally, a specific section consists of a learner corpus, whose annotation is part of a project on the syntax development observed in learners of L2 Italian. To this end we adapted the tagging system developed in AN.ANA.S. and shaped AN.ANA.S. L2 (Turco&Voghera in press), which integrates the syntactic analysis with the tagging of deviating structures, by obligatorily assigning them to different levels of syntactic segmentation. The use of an L2 annotation system that has the same basic structure of the system we use to annotate native language allowed a straightforward comparison between non-native and native production and the minimum use of ad hoc categories for the description of L2 texts. Data on the frequency and distribution of all the constituents in the different sections of the corpus have been collected (Voghera&Turco 2008; Turco&Voghera in press; Landolfi, Sammarco&Voghera in preparation). This has allowed not only to enlighten the linguistic properties of different syntactic frames, but also to test the reliability of the annotation scheme on different textual frames and linguistic structures that could be very distant from the predictions of traditional grammatical models. According to a data-driven approach, the choice of vary samples of different text types and different languages has permitted many significant improvements, since the first version of AN.ANA.S.. In fact, the acquisition of new data has not only enriched the annotation scheme, but has also reduced the use of ad hoc categories, augmenting the descriptive adequacy of the system. 6. Further developments Our linguistically-oriented approach was directed towards producing a relatively light tool to extract syntactic structures through descriptive or theoretical linguistic principles. In fact, the main objective is to produce a basic syntactic description of a wide variety of texts, which allows results in different languages to be compared. To pursue this goal, further developments are in progress, which involve both computational data transformation processes and linguistic applications. From a linguistic point of view, we have two objectives: to enlarge our corpus and improve the annotation of some elements, such as syntactic weight. The corpus will be expanded in two directions. Firstly, we intend to increase the written section in all the languages we have already annotated: Italian, English and Spanish. As far as Italian is concerned, we plan to annotate the entire Corpus Penelope, consisting of words. As we have already mentioned, the corpus includes a variety of texts, belonging to different registers and textual types. Ideally we would annotate a comparable amount of data of English and Spanish. While recent spoken corpora, such as Cresti&Moneglia (2005), include samples of dialogical and monological speech as well as informal and formal speech, written corpora are basically constituted by prose. This design seems to apply even more strictly to written treebank corpora. Increasing written material variety would permit to give a better representation of the actual written syntax, which is not always well-formed, as is predicted by traditional linguistic descriptions almost based on informative or expository genres. Secondly, we like to create multilingual annotated corpus of elicited dialogues in Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese and German. This is particularly important to assess the architecture of AN.ANA.S. on languages which differ as far as word order is concerned. Since our annotation preserves the linearity of text, this will be an important test. 14
15 The AN.ANA.S. annotation is basically clause-focused; that is the delicacy of annotation is greater at clause level, since the internal structure of clauses could be the best point of observation to describe the differences between speech and writing and between different register levels. As many studies on different languages have shown (Biber 1988,1995; Halliday 1985; Miller&Weinert 1998; Policarpi&Rombi 2005), contemporary texts differ more through intraclausal structures than interclausal ones. Formal expository written texts present a high lexical density with a high percentage of embedded phrases, compared to informal written texts or spoken ones. This corresponds to different syntactic weight of phrases, which are usually lighter in speech than in writing (Voghera&Turco 2008). The measure of the syntactic weight of phrases is, thus, a good index to investigate both diamesic and diafasic variability. For these reasons, we included the marking of syntactic weight of phrases in our annotation. Presently the weight is manually calculated, but our objective is to arrive at an automatic calculation. Many further improvements are possible in computation. According to what has been shown in section 4.1, a lot of work has to be done to integrate syntax and other text aligned linguistic annotations with time aligned labels coming from phonetic both segmental and suprasegmental analyses. To retrieve data from this complex structure requires the use of a query language, which may be difficult for linguists lacking advanced computer skills.our present effort aims to develop guided user interfaces (GUI) for this purpose (Romano et al. 2009). As far as the internal treebank querying is concerned, XML facilitates the creation of specific query languages (Lai & Bird, 2009; Brandt et al., 2002). As already stated in section 4.2, ANANAS. tries to use only XPath to retrieve information from its data. Recently, in order to enrich and complete the XPath power of expression, some specific integration for XPath has been developed (Lai & Bird 2009), thus creating a new query language named LPath that can express a wide range of queries over the trees. Although the limits of XPath discovered by Lai & Bird constitute in principle a theoretical obstacle to its use, problems actually arise only in very particular cases. In fact, we have not found, to date, queries that could not be expressed with this language. However, a set of XQuery scripts (http://www.w3.org/tr/xquery/) aimed at augmenting expression power of our queries are under development and include some of the improvements to XPath proposed in LPath, 7. Acknowledgment AN.ANA.S. was developed within an Italian national project funded by the Ministry of Education, University and Research (PRIN 2004 and 2006). Many people have contributed to the project in different phases. We would like to thank Caterina Bisogno, Gennaro Cavezza, Leandro D Anna, Emilio Diana, Annamaria Landolfi, Carmela Sammarco, Renata Savy, Giuseppina Turco, and Antonio Vuolo. References Abeillé, A., L. ed. (2003). Treebank.: Building and Using Parsed Corpora. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publisher. Abeillé, A., L., Clément, F.,Toussenel (2003). Building a Treebank for French. In A. Abeillé, Treebank.: Building and Using Parsed Corpora. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publisher, Barton, E. (2006). Toward a nonsentential analysis in generative grammar. In L. Progovac, K. Paesani, E. Casielles, E. Barton (eds.), The Syntax of Nonsententials. Amsterdam/Philadephia: John Benjamins Publishing Company,
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When executives at Saint Peter's Healthcare System decided to hire a full-time chief medical information officer, they recruited a physician from outside of the medical staff.
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By Chris Branch, The Courier-Post
PHILADELPHIA — These days, Mike Lieberthal tinkers with fantasy baseball, he golfs and then golfs some more.
Liberthal, or "Lieby" as he was known to many Philadelphia Phillies fans, entered the Phillies' Wall of Fame Friday, becoming the 59th former Phillie to earn the honor.
Lieberthal played 13 of his 14 major-league seasons in Philadelphia, and was mostly known for toiling on bad teams. He joined the Phillies in 1994, just a year after the club reached the World Series, and left in 2006, the year before the next playoff appearance.
Now, Lieberthal is looking for contention on the links, as he said his goal is to compete in the U.S. Amateur. Lieberthal said he has a handicap of 0 and is trending toward +2. He was scheduled to play with former Phillies John Kruk and Kevin Stocker today at Merion Golf Club, the site of next year's U.S. Open. Phillies owner John Middleton is set to join the round, too.
Lieberthal shuddered to think what life would have been like after he retired had it not been for golf.
"Thank God I had golf," Lieberthal said. "Thank God I have that, because it keeps me very competitive. I feel like I'm good at it and I have a chance to do something with that sport."
He hasn't completely abandoned the sport that made him his money, though. Lieberthal said he checks pitching matchups around the league every morning and watches many games.
But Friday was more about the games in which Lieberthal participated. He is the franchise's leader among catchers in games caught (1,139), home runs (149) and hits (1,128). He hit the .300 mark in two seasons: 1999 (.300) and 2003 (.313). His 1999 season is considered his best, when he hit 31 home runs, drove in 96 runs and earned a Gold Glove.
"He was a longevity player," said Phillies manager Charlie Manuel, who coached Lieberthal in 2005 and 2006. "He had some injuries and started having trouble with his knees. That hurt his production as far as from an offensive standpoint. He was a good catcher."
Joining in the celebration were Phillies legends and fellow Wall of Famers, including, notably, Steve Carlton, Mike Schmidt, Dallas Green, Darren Daulton and Kruk. After the Phillies showed a video montage of Lieberthal's career, the former catcher was greeted by Jimmy Rollins, Chase Utley and former Phillie Pat Burrell on stage.
Lieberthal said he was nearly in tears.
"I was kind of getting a little choked up," Lieberthal said. "So that made the speech even harder. I started sweating. I made it through."
Lieberthal said the memories that stick out were getting his first hit at Dodgers Stadium, hitting the game-tying homer to cap a seven-run comeback against the Pirates in 1998 and, unselfishly, seeing his former teammates win the NL East Division title in 2007, just a year after Lieberthal left.
"It's like a family here," Lieberthal said. "It's pretty special, I'm very lucky to have spent so many years with the Phillies, not many players can say that."
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Techniques for multidimensional scaling visualize objects as points in a low-dimensional metric map. As a result, the visualizations are subject to the fundamental limitations of metric spaces. These limitations prevent multidimensional scaling from faithfully representing non-metric similarity data such as word associations or event co-occurrences. In particular, multidimensional scaling cannot faithfully represent intransitive pairwise similarities in a visualization, and it cannot faithfully visualize "central" objects. In this paper, we present an extension of a recently proposed multidimensional scaling technique called t-SNE. The extension aims to address the problems of traditional multidimensional scaling techniques when these techniques are used to visualize non-metric similarities. The new technique, called multiple maps t-SNE, alleviates these problems by constructing a collection of maps that reveal complementary structure in the similarity data. We apply multiple maps t-SNE to a large data set of word association data and to a data set of NIPS co-authorships, demonstrating its ability to successfully visualize non-metric similarities.


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(The Hosting News) – In order to increase their combined influence on the web hosting industry a collaboration between Data Center Pulse and The Green Grid has been formally created.
This new relationship will enable The Green Grid to quickly and effectively reach a significant end user population to help validate and direct their overall efficiency and standards work. It will also allow Data Center Pulse members to have a direct conduit into the important work that The Green Grid is leading.
"This relationship allows Data Center Pulse to continue our mission to influence the industry through the consumers of Data Center products and services while maintaining the anonymity of our members," said Dean Nelson, chairman and founder of Data Center Pulse. "Our focus is to drive efficiency and performance gains in the Data Center because we are the customers. This relationship will accelerate that agenda, ultimately helping Data Center users and the industry as a whole."
"We are pleased to build on our relationship with Data Center Pulse," said Kathrin Winkler, a director of The Green Grid. "When we started exploring the opportunities, we realized that our efforts were complementary. We expect our relationship to accelerate the work each organization is pursuing and also to strengthen our output with a larger audience of end users participating and validating our energy efficiency efforts."
The Green Grid has an established Advisory Council (AC) made up of end users from eight of their primary member companies. This includes AT&T, ADP, eBay, Nationwide, Strato, The Walk Disney Company, Tokyo Electric Power Company, and Verizon. It was established to advise the board of directors on direction and strategy, to actively participate in technical committees, drive greater awareness of The Green Grid within the community, and guide and shape published materials and processes as one unified voice.
"The Advisory Council will be the conduit for the Data Center Pulse relationship," said Jeannie Diefenderfer, The Green Grid Advisory Council chair, "This relationship greatly augments our reach to end users. It will help us deliver on the AC charter."


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The Listies - ICKYPEDIA LIVE
Written by Richard Higgins and Matt Kelly
Australia's favourite kid's comedians are bringing their best-smelling book to the stage during the October School Holidays.
06 Oct – 07 Oct
They're back! Australia's fave kid's comedians, The Listies, are bringing their best-smelling book ICKYPEDIA: A Dictionary of Disgusting New Words to the stage!
ICKYPEDIA LIVE is a seriously silly show that answers all of life's important questions: How do you take a SMELLFIE? What does POOETRY sound like? Who is the world's worst chef? What is a HOOTENGRANNY? And how does one avoid a FARTQUAKE? Anarchic, spontaneous and astoundingly funny, ICKYPEDIA LIVE will uneducate and delight audiences young and old.
Recommended for ages 6+.
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Admire the most beautiful places of Troia and add them to your basket. YAMGU will create your trip considering distances, opening hours and weather.
Established in 1971 on the ground floor and basement of the sixteenth-century building Palazzo d'Avalos, the Museum was inaugurated in 1981 and is divided into five sections. On the ground floor the modern times discoveries are allocated, while those of the modern era, medieval, Roman and pre-Roman times, are located in the basement.
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Fort Minor Feat. Tony Yayo, Eminem, Obie Trice - Remember the Name (Remix) MP3
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Eminem - Remember My Name (Feat. 50 Cent and Fort Minor) *NEW 2012* MP3
Fort Minor (feat. Eminem) - Petrified (Mati Remix) MP3
Songs Mixed: Fort Minor - Petrified Eminem - Real Slim Shady (Acapella) Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made ...
Eminem/Fort Minor - Remember Yourself MP3
Mashup of Eminem's "Lose Yourself" and Fort Minor's "Remember The Name". Thanks for all the awesome comments everyone. Please rate and subscribe!
Where'd You Go (Remix) (Feat. Biggie, Tupac, Eminem & Fort Minor) MP3
A remix of an amazing and memorable song that brings back so many memories for me! I found this one day so I decided to edit it to make it sound more ...
Fort Minor ft. Eminem & Tupac - Remember The Name (MakaveliRemix1) MP3
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Remember The Name Remix by Fort Minor ft Eminem, Tony Yayo & Obie Trice (Clean) ~ DJ Eli ~ MP3
Remember The Name Remix (Clean) ~ DJ Eli~. Fort Minor ft Tony Yayo, Eminem & Obie Trice ....
Fort Minor Remember The Name VS Eminem VS 50 Cent mashup MP3
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Eminem vs. Fort Minor - When I'm Gone/Where'd You Go MP3
I've decided to publish one of my YouTube Exclusives. Eminem vs. Fort Minor - When I'm Gone/Where'd You Go http://www.mediafire.com/?0yctu2st6ygwj8s.