Projects

Addressing Limitations of Language Models

Applications that automatically process language and/or speech are numerous, including, but not limited to: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Machine Translation, Speech Translation, Spelling Correction, Natural Language Understanding and Natural Language Generation. Every application typically needs a special-purpose system and datasets with task-specific labels, but there is one common ...

1. Background and status quaestionis

Informal (mostly spoken) (henceforth IF) and formal (typically written) French (henceforth FF) are quite different. Some authors even speak of a diglossic situation and argue in favor of the co-existence of two different grammars in French (e.g. Klein 2012; Rowlett 2013). This opposition between IF and FF is particularly evident with the expression of the subject of the clause. Whereas ...

German W-immer/auch-connectives occur in universal concessive conditionals, nonspecific free relatives, and elliptical constructions. By analyzing both formal and semantic/pragmatic differences between these constructions, I will demonstrate that a more precise characterization of a construction’s function is required in order to distinguish formally similar constructions in the constructional network and explain subtle differences between ...

The soft tissues in our body are continuously engaged in mechanical interaction, with themselves but also with external devices. These devices may serve to protect (e.g. a helmet), repair (e.g. surgical instruments) or replace (e.g. prostheses) our native tissues. Profound knowledge about the mechanical behavior of these tissues and their interactions is essential to optimize the design of these external devices and treatments, and to ...

Extension is the process whereby a linguistic item spreads to new lexical or grammatical environments. This research plan lays out a model of extension, explaining why an item can extend to a given environment at a given time. It formulates three interrelated hypotheses on the starting point, course and end point of extension. The hypotheses are tested on four corpus−based case studies covering different domains of grammar. The focus is on ...

Here, we will use the brassinosteroid hormone receptor, BRI1, as a model to define the molecular framework of the interaction between signaling and endocytosis. By combining proteomics approach with genetic and chemical perturbations we will identify the endocytic machinery of BRI1 which, when combined with known signaling components, will allow us to develop an integrated model of receptor-mediated signaling and endocytosis in plants.