Mastering language use and usage: repositions perceived according to cognitive linguistics

Toward Integrating Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Language Processing

We present a system to comprehend natural language that combines cognitive linguistics with known properties of human language processing. It is built on Embodied Construction Grammar (ECG) and the Soar cognitive architecture. Its core is a novel grounded semantic parser. Experiments show the system produces actionable meanings and fulfills ten cognitive criteria we set out.

The Use of Age, Technology Usage, and Cognitive Characteristics in Relation to User Perceived Disorientation

Problem and Motivation The UK Office of Communication (Ofcom) report that over 50% of adults aged 65-74 and 25% of those aged 75+ now have access to the Internet [24]. With a growing number of adults using this technology comes a challenge in designing interfaces that this diverse population group can use. However, calling this cohort of users a single ‘group’ may cause problems the methods and...

Corpus linguistics - investigating language structure and use

Scaling Cognitive Linguistics: Formalisms for Language Understanding

Research in cognitive linguistics has yielded valuable semantic and pragmatic insights that should be incorporated by language understanding systems. These insights have not been expressed in a rigorous enough form to be implemented. We provide a unified formalism for representing four conceptual primitives: schemas, constructions, mental spaces, and maps. These primitives are motivated by the ...

The Relationship between EFL Learners’ Use of Language Learning Strategies and Self-Perceived Language Proficiency

The present study was conducted to investigate whether there was a relationship between EFL learners’ use of language learning strategies and their self-perceived language proficiency at the two levels of intermediate and advanced. A total of 67 subjects (39 intermediate-level and 28 advanced) were selected to participate in this study based on their scores on a piloted language proficiency tes...