http://hdl.handle.net/2123/95 Thu, 23 May 2013 21:32:35 GMT 2013-05-23T21:32:35Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5839 Title: Author Profiling for English and Arabic Emails Authors: Estival, Dominique; Gaustad, Tanja; Hutchinson, Ben; Pham, Son Bao; Radford, Will Abstract: This paper reports on some aspects of a research project aimed at automating the analysis of texts for the purpose of author profiling and identification. The Text Attribution Tool (TAT) was developed for the purpose of language-independent author profiling and has now been trained on two email corpora, English and Arabic. The complete analysis provides probabilities for the author’s basic demographic traits (gender, age, geographic origin, level of education and native language) as well as for five psychometric traits. The prototype system also provides a probability of a match with other texts, whether from known or unknown authors. A very important part of the project was the data collection and we give an overview of the collection process as well as a detailed description of the corpus of email data which was collected. We describe the overall TAT system and its components before outlining the ways in which the email data is processed and analysed. Because Arabic presents particular challenges for NLP, this paper also describes more specifically the text processing components developed to handle Arabic emails. Finally, we describe the Machine Learning setup used to produce classifiers for the different author traits and we present the experimental results, which are promising for most traits examined. Description: Submitted for publication in 2008 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5839 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5794 Title: How Warumungu people express new concepts Authors: Simpson, Jane Abstract: This article describes strategies used by Warumungu speakers to create new words and ways of expressing new concepts, in the context of multilingual society in which speakers of Indigenous Australian languages view language as a property. The strategies include borrowing, onomatopoeia, compounding, derivation, extension of existing words, including polysemous extensions such as actual/potential and container/contained Tue, 01 Jan 1985 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5794 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4989 Title: Moving along the grammaticalisation path: Locative and Allative marking of non-finite clauses and secondary predications in Australian languages Authors: McConvell, Patrick; Simpson, Jane Abstract: This paper examines three grammaticalised instances of local case-marking in Indigenous languages of northern Central Australia, coded as follows: (AN) Allative expressing object control on NP’s - the use of allative instead of locative in the meaning of ‘locative’ in a secondary predication where the subject of that predication has the same reference as an object or oblique in the main predication; (LS) Locative marked subordination the use of locative case-marking on the verb and other elements to mark types of non-finite subordinate clauses; (AS) Allative marked subordination expressing object control, combining features of A and LS, usually where LS is also present. The different distributions of these properties are plotted in a number of Central and northern Australian languages to provide a picture of current distribution and hypotheses about the origin of these constructions. The hypothesis proposed here is that the AN construction arose in a group of Pama-Nyungan languages in a restricted area of North-central Australia and partially overlapped with the presence of the LS construction in a wider grouping of Pama-Nyungan languages. This cooccurrence produced the AS construction, which subsequently diffused to a few neighbouring languages, including some Non-Pama-Nyungan languages. Both AN and AS can be called grammaticalisation since they depart from the semantic functions of the locational cases to mark control phenomena between predications. The marking of subordinate clauses by local cases, and particularly locative case, is relatively common cross-linguistically outside Australia and arguably maintains some cognitive metaphorical link with static location and motion, perhaps primarily through the near-universal ‘space=time’ metaphor. In AN, we see a much rarer development in which the metaphorical link between the concrete local meaning and the grammatical function is attenuated, although the possibility that AN involves ‘fictive motion’ as in Finnic languages is discussed. Description: An earlier version of this paper was presented at the PIONIER Workshop on Locative Case, 25-–26 August 2008, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands Tue, 19 May 2009 00:23:21 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4989 2009-05-19T00:23:21Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4025 Title: Ngarluma as a W* language Authors: Simpson, Jane Abstract: An account of the morpho-syntax of Ngarluma, an Australian language spoken in the Pilbara, is given based on Kenneth Hale's fieldnotes together with Carl von Brandenstein's published texts. The analysis uses the W* framework proposed by Kenneth Hale, to describe the free word order, discontinuous phrases, valence-changing suffixes, case system and use of case to indicate identity of controllers. Description: The paper was typewritten with handwritten labels and diagrams, and has faded badly. It was submitted as a generals paper in 1981. Some of the data and analysis were cited in later literature. Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:10:52 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4025 2009-01-26T22:10:52Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1725 Title: Cyclic syllabification and a first cycle rule of vowel-rounding in some dialects of Australian English Authors: Simpson, Jane Abstract: A discussion of the realisation of /l/ in Australian English, and of the quality of back vowels preceding the /l/, especially in Cultivated Adelaide English. A technical solution making use of cyclic syllabification is proposed, and evidence from /r/ insertion is adduced. Description: This is an unpublished term-paper (March 1980) forming part of Simpson's doctoral course-work at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It has been cited in the phonological literature. Sat, 01 Mar 1980 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1725 1980-03-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/140 Title: Resultatives Authors: Simpson, Jane Abstract: This paper looks at the syntactic and semantic conditions in English on resultative attributes, which describe the state of an entity resulting from the action denoted by the main predicate. It is argued that these entities are expressed as the objects of transitive verbs, and the subject of intransitive unaccusative verbs. A fake object construction is required for a resultative to describe the state of an entity expressed as the subject of an intransitive unergative verb or an indefinite object-deleting verb. Sat, 01 Jan 1983 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2123/140 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z