14.2460, Qs: Coda Restrictions; French Corpus

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Subject: 14.2460, Qs: Coda Restrictions; French Corpus

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Date:  Wed, 17 Sep 2003 02:38:13 +0000
From:  Ingo Plag <plag at anglistik.uni-siegen.de>
Subject:  coda restrictions

2)
Date:  Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:04:10 +0000
From:  Marie-Josée Goulet <marie-josee.goulet.1 at agora.ulaval.ca>
Subject:  French corpus for summarization evaluation

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Date:  Wed, 17 Sep 2003 02:38:13 +0000
From:  Ingo Plag <plag at anglistik.uni-siegen.de>
Subject:  coda restrictions

Dear colleagues,

I am looking for languages with the following (or similar) peculiar
coda restrictions:

- word-finally, only nasals are possible codas
- word-internally, only nasals and /r/ are possible codas, with the latter
only occurring before /k/ (ar.ki)

I'd also be very grateful for any comments or references on this (or a
similar) phenomenon, and will provide a summary for the list.

Many thanks in advance.

Ingo Plag


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Date:  Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:04:10 +0000
From:  Marie-Josée Goulet <marie-josee.goulet.1 at agora.ulaval.ca>
Subject:  French corpus for summarization evaluation

I am doing a PhD thesis on automatic summarization of French texts. I
need French texts to submit to the summarization system being tested,
for examples news articles. I would like those texts to be
accompagnied by short summaries, if possible. Has anyone heard of a
French corpus available for research purposes?

Subject-Language: French; Code: FRN

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