This study compares lexical retrieval amongst monolinguals and intermediate bilinguals and advanced bilinguals. It also investigates the possible effects of their language learning strategies on their respective lexical retrieval advantage. The study used a mixed methods design and the groups consisted of 20 Persian near-monolinguals, 20 Persian-English intermediate level bilinguals, and 20 Per...

Contrary to earlier reports in literature, exhaustive forward inferencing is a feasible approach for practical RDF. It is sufficiently fast and the increase in necessary storage size is sufficiently small to make it work. Benefits of this approach are low-cost design and implementation, and very cheap query answering, since this task is reduced to simple lookup without inferencing. A potential ...

C o n si st en t * lete * W ll D o c u m e n t e d * E a s y t o R e u s e * * E v a l u a t e d * E C O O P * Ar tifact * A E C Reflection has always been an obstacle both for sound and for effective under-approximate pointer analysis for Java applications. In pointer analysis tools, reflection is either ignored or handled partially, resulting in missed, important behaviors. In this paper, we ...

We review recent results on inferencing for SROEL(×), a description logic that subsumes the main features of the W3C recommendation OWL EL. Rule-based deduction systems are developed for various reasoning tasks and logical sublanguages. Certain feature combinations lead to increased space upper bounds for materialisation, suggesting that efficient implementations are easier to obtain for suitab...

Recent work in the area of interactive narrative has sought to develop systems that automatically produce experiences for a user that are understood as stories. Much of this work, however, has focused on the structural aspects of narrative rather than the process of narrative comprehension undertaken by users. Motivated by approaches in natural language discourse generation where explicit model...

We describe an approach towards integrating the semantics of semi-structured documents with tasksupport for (weakly-structured) business processes and proactive inferencing capabilities of a desk support agent. The proactive assistance of the intelligent agent is motivated by the requirements posed in (weakly-structured) business processes performed by a typical knowledge worker. First, we intr...

We present a study that investigates that factors that determine what makes a good lexical substitution. We begin by observing that there is a correlation between the corpus frequency of words and the number of WordNet senses they have, and hypothesise that readers might prefer common, but more ambiguous words over less ambiguous but also less common ones. We identify four properties of a word ...

In previous papers we have argued for the complete integration of natural language understanding with the rest of the cognitive system. Given a set of richly indexed memory structures, we have claimed that parsing is a general memory search process guided by predictive patterns of lexical and conceptual items which are a part of those memory structures. In this paper, we demonstrate that our ar...

The paper characterizes natural language inferencing in the TIBAQ method of question-answering, focussing on three aspects: ~i) specification of the structures on which the inference rules operate, (ii) classification of the rules that have been formulated and implemented up to now, according to the kind of modification of the input structure ti~e rules invoke, an~ (iii) discussion of some poin...

Although Complement Coercion has been systematically associated with computational cost, there remains a serious confound in the experimental evidence built up in previous studies. The confound arises from the fact that lexicosemantic differences within the set of verbs assumed to involve coercion have not been taken into consideration. From among the set of verbs that have been reported to exh...