Antal van den Bosch
List of John Benjamins publications in which Antal van den Bosch is involved.
2022 Connectionism Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 295–302 | Chapter
2019 Do speech registers differ in the predictability of words? International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 24:1, pp. 98–130 | Article
Previous research has demonstrated that language use can vary depending on the context of situation. The present paper extends this finding by comparing word predictability differences between 14 speech registers ranging from highly informal conversations to read-aloud books. We trained 14… read more
2018 BasiScript: A corpus of contemporary Dutch texts written by primary school children International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 23:4, pp. 494–508 | Article
This short paper introduces BasiScript, a 9-million-word corpus of contemporary Dutch texts written by primary school children. The data were collected over three years with 17,216 children contributing texts throughout this period. Each word token in the corpus is annotated with the correct… read more
2014 Improving word prediction for augmentative communication by using idiolects and sociolects Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 3:2, pp. 137–154 | Article
Word prediction, or predictive editing, has a long history as a tool for augmentative and assistive communication. Improvements in the state-of-the-art can still be achieved, for instance by training personalized statistical language models. We developed the word prediction system Soothsayer. The… read more
2009 Feature construction for memory-based semantic role labeling of Catalan and Spanish Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing V: Selected papers from RANLP 2007, Nicolov, Nicolas, Galia Angelova and Ruslan Mitkov (eds.), pp. 131–142 | Article
2009 Connectionism Cognition and Pragmatics, Sandra, Dominiek, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 126–134 | Article
2006 Spelling space: A computational test bed for phonological and morphological changes in Dutch spelling Script Adjustment and Phonological Awareness, Neef, Martin and Guido Nottbusch (eds.), pp. 25–44 | Article
The Dutch spelling system, like other European spelling systems, represents a certain balance between preserving the spelling of morphemes (the morphological principle) and obeying letter-to-sound regularities (the phonological principle). We present experimental results with artificial learners… read more
2002 9. Expanding k -NN analogy with instance families Analogical Modeling: An exemplar-based approach to language, Skousen, Royal, Deryle Lonsdale and Dilworth B. Parkinson (eds.), pp. 209–223 | Chapter
1995 Connectionism Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 165–171 | Article