When considering domain-specific languages that are not purely static, the question arises how programs written in the DSL can interact with those of the base language. We propose to apply the concept of linguistic symbiosis as a standard for evaluating mechanisms that allow such an interaction. Linguistic symbiosis in general refers to the ability of programs written in different languages to ...

An historical survey of the approaches to the neural basis of language and the modularity question is summarized. Evidence from aphasia, event-related potentials (ERPs), Specific Language Impairments (SLIs) in children, asymmetry of abilities as shown by linguistic ‘savants’, sign language, separation of conceptual and linguistic knowledge, other disorders such as prosopagnosia and visual agnos...

Ontology has a powerful expressive ability on knowledge. In order to share and deal with the fuzzy knowledge on the semantic web, the linguistic variable ontology is proposed as the basis of the Flu Fuzzy Diagnosis System. After that, Protégé is introduced to build the fuzzy rule base. The paper concludes that linguistic variable ontology-based fuzzy diagnosis system can achieve the function of...

• Linguistic: induce semantic frame and syntactic dependency-based patterns that aim to capture the meaning of a sentence and use them as features • Extra-linguistic: improve the classification of a test post by exploiting the information in other test posts that are likely to have the same stance Aim: improve a learner’s ability to generalize by inducing patterns based on semantic frames and u...

This paper will describe current work at Alelo to track learner interactions with learning systems and analyze the data to derive profiles of learner competencies. This includes both linguistic knowledge (e.g., the ability to recognize and recall words and phrases) and linguistic skills (e.g., the ability to perform communicative functions involving speaking and listening). The learner modeling...

[L]et’s look at the concept of a language I opposed. It was this: in learning a language, a person acquires the ability to operate in accord with a precise and specifiable set of syntactic and semantic rules; verbal communication depends on speaker and hearer sharing such an ability, and it requires no more than this. I argued that sharing such a previously mastered ability was neither necessar...

We introduce and analyze a new statistical ensemble of low-density parity-check convolutional (LDC) codes. The result of the analysis are bounds, such as a lower bound for the free distance and upper bounds for the burst error probability of the LDC codes.

The unit for research into reading that we set up in Liverpool is just over a year old now. It is called CRILS – the Centre for Research into Reading, Information and Linguistic Systems. Odd though perhaps it may seem at first, we came out of a department for the study of English literature and into a faculty of Health and Life Sciences, to widen our remit across disciplines and in relation to ...

This paper describes a method for finding struc-rural matching between parallel sentences of two languages, (such as Japanese and English). Parallel sentences are analyzed based on unification grammars, and structural matching is performed by making use of a similarity measure of word pairs in the two languages. Syntactic ambiguities are resolved simultaneously in the matching process. The resu...

(2) This property of discrete infinity characterizes EVERY human language; none consists of a finite set of sentences. The unchanged central goal of linguistic theory over the last fifty years has been and remains to give a precise, formal characterization of this property and then to explain how humans develop (or grow) and use discretely infinite linguistic systems. (Epstein and Hornstein 200...