Introduction to the Special Issue on Critical Language Pedagogy

Introduction to the Special Issue on Natural Language Generation

There are two sides to natural language processing. On the one hand, work in natural language understanding is concerned with the mapping from some surface representation of linguistic material expressed as speech or text--to an underlying representation of the meaning carried by that surface representation. But there is also the question of how one maps from some underlying representation of m...

Introduction to the special issue on African Language Technology

In today’s digital multilingual world, language technology is crucial for providing access to information and opportunities for economic development. With approximately two thousand different languages, Africa is a multilingual continent par excellence, presenting acute challenges for those seeking to promote and use African languages in the areas of business development, education and relief a...

Introduction to the special issue on language–vision interactions

Researchers in psycholinguistics are increasingly interested in the question of how linguistic and visual information are integrated during language processing. In part, this trend is attributable to the use of the so-called ‘‘visual world paradigm’’ in psycholinguistics, in which participants look at and sometimes manipulate objects in a visual world as they listen to spoken utterances or gene...

Introduction to Special Issue on Natural Language and Logic Programming

Introduction to the Special Issue on Binding

In many ways visual processing acts as a prism, splitting visual information from the retinal image into separately processed visual features such as colours, shapes, sizes, or orientations. Binding refers to the set of cognitive and neural mechanisms that re-integrate these features to create a holistic representation of the objects in the visual field. The binding problem in vision refers to ...