Where Do People Fit into a Global Hazard Model?

Where Do Translators Fit Into MT ? Panel

1. At the last MT Summit, Martin Kay stated that there should be “greater attention to empirical studies of translation so that computational linguists will have a better idea of what really goes on in translation and develop tools that will be more useful for the end user.” Does this mean that there has been insufficient input into MT processes by translators interested in MT? Does it mean tha...

Testing Guts : Where Do Monopoles Fit ?

Universal Grammar and Chaos/Complexity Theory: Where Do They Meet And Where Do They Cross?

  Abstract The present study begins by sketching "Chaos/Complexity Theory" (C/CT) and its applica-tion to the nature of language and language acquisition. Then, the theory of "Universal Grammar" (UG) is explicated with an eye to C/CT. Firstly, it is revealed that CCT may or may not be allied with a theory of language acquisition that takes UG as the initial state of language acquisition for ...

Novel and Nontraditional Data Streams: Where Do They Fit into Biosurveillance Action?

Novel and Nontraditional Data Streams: Where Do They Fit into Biosurveillance Action? Laura Streichert*1, Aaron Kite-Powell2, Timothy J. Dasey2, Richard Hopkins3, 1, Courtney Corley4 and Steve Bennett5 1International Society for Disease Surveillance, Brighton, MA, USA; 2MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, USA; 3University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA; 4Pacific Northwest National Laborato...

Identifying visual prosody: where do people look?

Talkers produce different types of spoken prosody by varying acoustic cues (e.g., F0, duration, and amplitude), also making complementary head and face movements (visual prosody). Perceivers can categorise auditory and visual prosodic expressions at high levels of accuracy. Research using eyetracking trained participants to recognise the visual prosody of two-word sentences and found that the u...