• Asking between the lines: elicitation of evoked questions in text

  Westera, Matthijs; Rohde, Hannah (Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), 2019)

  We introduce a novel, scalable method aimed at annotating potential and actual Questions Under Discussion (QUDs) in naturalistic discourse. It consists of asking naive participants first what questions a certain portion ...
• Run Like a Girl! Sport-Related Gender Bias in Language and Vision

  Harrison, Sophie; Gualdoni, Eleonora; Boleda, Gemma (ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), 2023)

  Gender bias in Language and Vision datasets and models has the potential to perpetuate harmful stereotypes and discrimination. We analyze gender bias in two Language and Vision datasets. Consistent with prior work, ...
• Attentional pragmatics: a pragmatic approach to exhaustivity

  Westera, Matthijs (Linguistic Society of America, 2022)

  The neo-Gricean approach to exhaustivity is based on the idea that exhaustivity arises when relevant propositions are not asserted. This paper presents a new pragmatic approach based on the idea that exhaustivity arises ...
• Language and the tourist experience in Paralelo 35 (1967) by Carmen Laforet in the context of the travel books to the United States in the 1960s

  Dasca, Maria, 1977- (Taylor & Francis, 2022)

  The objective of this article is to analyze Carmen Laforet’s traveling experience in the book Paralelo 35 (1967). Published in a context in which the travelogue to the United States has already established itself as a ...
• The UPF learner translation corpus as a resource for translator training

  Espunya, Anna (Springer, 2015)

  The learner translation corpus developed at the School of Translation and Interpreting of Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona is a web-searchable resource created for pedagogical and research purposes. It comprises a ...
• Lengua viva en la traducción. Variedades y acentos en un modelo integrado. A propósito de Águilas y ángeles, de Juli Zeh

  Brumme, Jenny (2019)

  En este artículo se propone un modelo integrado para el análisis de la oralidad ficticia en textos y sus traducciones, con especial atención a su dimensión diatópica. Como punto de partida, se retoman los principales ...
• Das parfum. Olfaktorische phraseologismen und deren übersetzung ins Katalanische

  Brumme, Jenny; Voellmer, Elena (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 2016)

  Per la centralitat del camp semàntic de l’olfacte, els fraseologismes olfactoris juguen un paper considerable en la novel∙la El perfum, història d’un assassí (1985) de l’escriptor alemany Patrick Süskind. L’objectiu de ...
• Tratados de catalanismos revisados. Vicente Salvá (Compendio, 1838) y Lorenzo de Alemany (Elementos, 41842), ¿semejanza fortuita o reacción deliberada?

  Brumme, Jenny; Terrón Vinagre, Natalia (Sociedad Española de Historiografía Lingüística, 2022)

  El propósito de este artículo es averiguar la repercusión que pudo tener el Compendio de la gramática castellana de Vicente Salvá (1786-1849) en la “Digresión final”, que Lorenzo de Alemany (1799-1855) incorpora en la 4.ª ...
• Temporal overlap between gestures and speech in poststroke aphasia: is there a compensatory effect?

  Zhang, Han; Hinzen, Wolfram (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2022)

  Purpose: If language production is impaired, will gestures compensate? Evidence in favor of this prediction has often been argued to come from aphasia, but it remains contested. Here, we tested whether thought content not ...
• Reduced abstractness in Spanish-English translation: the case of property-denoting nouns

  Espunya, Anna (Les Presses de l'Université de Montreal, 2020)

  Este estudio propone una metodología empírica para comprobar la hipótesis de que los textos ingleses traducidos del español son menos abstractos que sus originales. El ámbito semántico seleccionado es la atribución de ...
• Editing nominalisations in English−German translation: when do editors intervene?

  Bisiada, Mario (Taylor & Francis, 2017)

  The work of editors and their influence on translated texts is an under-researched phenomenon in translation studies. We usually attribute the language we encounter in translated texts to translators, ignoring any ...
• PAROLE/SIMPLE 'lemon' ontology and lexicons

  Villegas, Marta; Bel Rafecas, Núria (IOS Press, 2015)

  The PAROLE/SIMPLE ‘lemon’ Ontology and Lexicon are the OWL/RDF version of the PAROLE/SIMPLE lexicons (defined during the PAROLE (LE2-4017) and SIMPLE (LE4-8346) IV FP EU projects) once mapped onto lemon model and LexInfo ...
• Neutralizing the effect of translation shifts on automatic machine translation evaluation

  Fomicheva, Marina; Bel Rafecas, Núria; da Cunha Fanego, Iria (Springer, 2015)

  State-of-the-art automatic Machine Translation [MT] evaluation is based on the idea that the closer MT output is to Human Translation [HT], the higher its quality. Thus, automatic evaluation is typically approached by ...
• Quantifying informativeness of names in visual space

  Gualdoni, Eleonora; Kemp, Charles; Xu, Yang; Boleda, Gemma (Cognitive Science Society, 2023)

  The human lexicon expresses a wide array of concepts with a limited set of words. Previous work has suggested that semantic categories are structured compactly to enable informative communication. Informativeness is typically ...
• Clubhouse: conversaciones para enseñar y aprender español

  Urrutia, Marc; Dos-Santos, Eva; Cassany, Daniel (Taylor & Francis, 2022)

  Las redes sociales están modificando la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de idiomas, generando prácticas educativas desconocidas hasta hoy. En este contexto, presentamos el primer estudio empírico en cualquier idioma sobre el ...
• Forums and chats to learn languages: functions, types and uses

  Cassany, Daniel (Peter Lang, 2015)

  This chapter explores language classroom uses of two of the most popular, interactive and simple genres on the Internet: the forum and the chat. First, I review the most relevant literature in areas such as computer-mediated ...
• The morphological and syntactic status of the analytic and synthetic future in medieval Catalan

  Alsina i Keith, Àlex (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana, 2022)

  The goal of this paper is to investigate the morphological and syntactic properties of the synthetic and analytic future in medieval Catalan. The main claim is that the two future forms are independent structures. Despite ...
• How are signed languages learned as second languages?

  Marshall, Chloe; Bel, Aurora; Gulamani, Sannah; Morgan, Gary (Wiley, 2021)

  This review addresses the question: How are signed languages learned by adult hearing learners? While there has been much research on second language learners of spoken languages, there has been far less work in signed ...
• Multilingual resources for NLP in the lexical markup framework (LMF)

  Francopoulo, Gil; Bel Rafecas, Núria; George, Monte; Calzolari, Nicoletta; Monachini, Monica; Pet, Mandy; Soria, Claudia (Springer, 2008)

  Optimizing the production, maintenance and extension of lexical resources is one the crucial aspects impacting natural language processing (NLP). A second aspect involves optimizing the process leading to their integration ...
• “¡Por el presente se certifica!”: análisis contrastivo de un corpus chino-español de traducciones notarizadas

  Andújar Moreno, Gemma; Vargas Urpi, Mireia (John Benjamins Publishing, 2022)

  La incorporación de estudiantes chinos al sistema universitario español ha comportado un incremento en los certificados académicos que se reciben en la administración universitaria y que se usan para valorar la admisión ...

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