Language is a very powerful tool for mutual understanding between people. In the increasingly globalized society we live in, there is great importance and interest in learning languages other than one’s own mother tongue. Computer based teaching tools provide a potent medium through which such demand can be met conveniently. Shikshaka, a computer based teaching framework was developed for teach...

Content Determination (aka Content Selection)

We present the first visualization of document content which takes advantage of the human-created structure in lexical databases. We use the WordNet hyponymy (IS-A) relationship as the structure for radial, space-filling trees which quickly reveal the concepts contained within a document of interest. Interactive techniques of zoom, filter, and details-on-demand support document analysis. The vi...

A system for the content-based querying of large databases containing documents of different classes (texts, images, image sequences etc.) is introduced. Queries are formulated in natural language (NL) and are evaluated for their semantic contents. For the document evaluation, a knowledge model consisting of a set of domain specific concept interpretation methods is constructed. Thus, the seman...

On the World Wide Web (WWW), the presence of sign languages is very limited because of the dominance of text-based web development technologies. There is a lack of tools available to create webpages that do not contain text. It is thus difficult for Deaf sign language users to have a web presence in their native language and forces them to work in a second, less expressive language, text. The l...

Textual data is at the forefront of information management problems today. One response has been the development of visualizations of text data. These visualizations, commonly based on simple attributes such as relative word frequency, have become increasingly popular tools. We extend this direction, presenting the first visualization of document content which combines word frequency with the h...

We describe a language designed for the representation of a broad spectrum of web content, including formatted text, graphics, and programmed application-level function. The approach described maps conventional markup tags to underlying, more general programming constructs, and provides local extensibility of the markup language by addition of programmed objects, procedures, and macros to the u...

We propose a statistical model for natural language that begins by considering language as a monoid, then representing it in complex matrices with a compatible translation invariant probability measure. We interpret the probability measure as arising via the Born rule from a translation invariant matrix product state.

This paper introduces Elody, a MidiShare compatible music composition environment developed in Java. The heart of Elody is a visual functional language derived from the λ-calculus. The languages expressions are handled through visual constructors and Drag & Drop actions allowing the user to play in realtime with the language.