Shared Language

Debugging Larch Shared Language Specifications

The Larch family of specification languages supports a two-tiered definitional approach to specification. Each specification has components written in two languages: one designed for a specific programming language and another independent of any programming language. The former are called Larch interface languages, and the latter the Larch Shared Language (LSL). The Larch style of specification...

From Shared Attention to Shared Language in Human Infants

Homo sapiens possess a unique behavioural system for social action and response, namely, language. Language permits action at a distance by transmitting messages with specifi c meanings from one individual's mind to that of another. It is a peculiar system as compared with other structures in the environment, because the information in language that specifi es meaning is rather abstract and arb...

Evaluating a Pattern Language as Shared Language for Interaction Design

Few studies have empirically evaluated pattern languages as a shared language for interaction design. In the HCI community, interaction patterns proliferate, but consensus on what constitutes a pattern language is missing. We evaluate four criteria required of a pattern language, and its impact on shared understanding. Keyword Pattern-Language Evaluating a Pattern Language as Shared Language fo...

BUCC Shared Task: Cross-Language Document Similarity

We summarise the organisation and results of the first shared task aimed at detecting the most similar texts in a large multilingual collection. The dataset of the shared was based on Wikipedia dumps with interlanguage links with further filtering to ensure comparability of the paired articles. The eleven system runs we received have been evaluated using the TREC evaluation metrics.

Report on the Larch Shared Language