Metalanguage is an essential linguistic mechanism which allows us to communicate explicit information about language itself. However, it has been underexamined in research in lang...
In a 12-month project we have developed a new, register-diverse, 55-million-word bilingual corpus--the New Corpus for Ireland (NCI)--to support the creation of a new English-to-Iri...
Some big languages like English are spoken by a lot of people whose mother tongues are different from. Their second languages often have not only distinct accent but also differen...
This paper describes the creation of a bilingual corpus of inter-linked events for Italian and English. Linkage is accomplished through the Inter-Lingual Index (ILI) that links It...
This paper describes the procedure adopted by the three co-ordinators of the CLEF 2003 question answering track (ITC-irst, UNED and ILLC) to create the question set for the monoli...