Text ambiguity is one of the most interesting phenomenon in human communication and a difficult problem in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Identification of text ambiguities is an important task for evaluating the quality of text and uncovering its vulnerable points. There exist several types of ambiguity. In the present work we review and compare different approaches to ambiguity identifica...

In order to solve the puzzle of child language acquisition, researchers have developed a number of metrics. All of these metrics involve examining a transcript of utterances, and producing a score that corresponds to language development. The most commonly used metrics rely on surface-level features, which are used due to computational ease and availability. An alternative approach is to, given...

In this study the use of functional MRI (fMRI) for measuring language lateralization non-invasively was examined. The subjects were seven patients with histories of temporal lobe epilepsy who had undergone Wada testing for pre-surgical evaluation. Four patients were left-hemisphere-dominant and three were right-hemisphere-dominant for language. They received fMRI scans while they made semantic ...

Contrary to the increasing popularity of JavaScript programming language in the field of web application development, the numerical expression of evidence about the quality of solutions developed in this language is still not reliable. Based on the preliminary literature review, which is the main subject of this paper, this area has not yet been fully explored. Measurement is done by applicatio...

We propose a declarative measurement specification language for quantitative performance evaluation of hybrid (discrete-continuous) systems based on simulation traces. We use timed regular expressions with events to specify patterns that define segments of simulation traces over which measurements are to be taken. In addition, we associate measure specifications over these patterns to describe ...

In sign language research, we understand little about articulatory factors involved in shaping phonemic boundaries or the amount (and articulatory nature) of acceptable phonetic variation between handshapes. To date, there exists no comprehensive analysis of handshape based on the quantitative measurement of joint angles during sign production. The purpose of our work is to develop a methodolog...

A new concept of formality of linguistic expressions is introduced and argued to be the most important dimension of variation between styles or registers. Formality is subdivided into "deep" formality and "surface" formality. Deep formality is defined as avoidance of ambiguity by minimizing the context-dependence and fuzziness of expressions. This is achieved by explicit and precise description...