Children with developmental language or speech disorders frequently benefit from augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies. These children have severe expressive or receptive communication disorders or both which sometimes occur in isolation, or as part of a global developmental disability. Children with specific language impairment, pervasive developmental disorder, developme...

BACKGROUND Studies from European-American cultures consistently reported that expressive suppression was associated with worse emotional consequence (e.g. depression) in comparison with acceptance. However, this conclusion may not apply to Chinese, as suppressing emotional displays to maintain relational harmony is culturally valued in East Asian countries. Thus, the present study examined the ...

OBJECTIVES In a test to determine whether a brief version of the expressive writing (EW) method was viable, 106 college students participated in an experiment dealing with the study of life transitions. DESIGN Individuals were randomly assigned to write for 15 minutes on three occasions: either three times separated by 10-min break (1-hour condition), 35-min break (3-hour condition), or 24-ho...

Transparent Intensional Logic (TIL) is a highly expressive logic system. Its potential applications in artificial intelligence and multiagent systems are broad. We introduce the TIL-Script language, which is a computational variant of the language of TIL constructions. TILScript can be used as an alternative to FIPA SL language, whenever communication in a natural language is in need (e. g. hum...

When searching unstructured plain-text the user is limited in the expressive power of their query – they can only ask for documents that are about something. When structure is present in the document, and with a query language that supports its use, the user is able to write far more precise queries. For example, searching for smith in a document is not necessarily equivalent to searching for s...

Absence of communicative speech in autism has been presumed to reflect a fundamental deficit in the use of language, but at least in a subpopulation may instead stem from motor and oral motor issues. Clinical reports of disparity between receptive vs. expressive speech/language abilities reinforce this hypothesis. Our early-intervention clinic develops skills prerequisite to learning and commun...

This paper presents a new pattern language, PALM, for describing patterns in molecular biology sequences. The language is intended for representing knowledge about such patterns in a declarative, clear and concise way. It is also shown that its expressive power enables the definition of any regular or context free language, and also higher languages in the Chomsky hierarchy by parameter attachm...

This paper presents a statistical study of local vs. global approaches for classifying gender from neutral and expressive faces. A cross-dataset evaluation is provided by using different training and test face databases, as well as several well-known classifiers (1-NN, PCA+LDA and SVM) and widely used features for facial description. Three statistical tests have proved that local approaches are...