Computational linguistics (CL) has borrowed a lot of ideas from Theoretical Linguistics (TZ). We could not have developed even a simple parser without the research results in TL. It is obviously nonsense to claim that we, computational linguists, do not care research results in TL. llowever, the researchers in TL, it seems to me, are very fond of fighlinq~ especially, those who are called Synla...

Miller (1990) suggests that communication between linguistics and psychology is hampered for essentially cognitive reasons: linguists favor simplifying explanations while psychologists favor causal explanations. This paper reformulates this suggestion as three testable hypotheses. First, scientists vary in cognitive style from rationalist/nomological to empiricist/mechanistic. Second, linguisti...

Our aim in this article is to argue that an adequate account of semantic development in early ®rst language acquisition requires a theory and methodology that synthesize the insights of cognitive and cultural linguistics with a Vygotskian sociocultural approach to human development. This involves recasting and extending the notion of embodiment, which is a central philosophical underpinning of ...

For a long period, Computational Linguistics (CL) and Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) have developed almost entirely independently of each other. A brief historical survey shows that the main reason for this state of affairs was the long preoccupation in CL with the general problem of Natural Language Understanding (NLU). As a consequence, much effort was directed to fields such as M...

We introduce a notion of training methodology space (TM space) for specifying training methodologies in tile different disciplines and teaching traditions associated with computational linguistics and the human language technologies, and pin our approach to the concept of operational model; we also discuss different general levels of interactivity. A number of operational models are introduced,...

ProLiV Animated Process-modeler of Complex (Computational) Linguistic Methods and Theories is a fully modular, flexible, XML-based stand-alone Java application, used for computer-assisted learning in Natural Language Processing (NLP) or Computational Linguistics (CL). Having a flexible and extendible architecture, the system presents the students, by means of text, of visual elements (such as p...