According to recent studies, there is a persistence of adverb placement errors in the written productions of francophone learners and users of English at an intermediate to advanced level. In this paper, we present strategies for the automatic detection and correction of errors in the placement of manner adverbs, using linguistic-based natural language processing (NLP) techniques in the <TextCo...

To interact in a natural manner with humans robots must “understand” some ordinary speech, however limited. This paper addresses a preliminary issue: the need to process short sequences of words as grammatical fragments, evidenced by empirical linguistic observations. The evolution of language can inform the development of agents’ communication, and insights from ethology, anthropology and neur...

We describe a method and a corresponding tool for grammarbased test-data generation (GBTG). The basic generation principle is to enumerate test data based on grammatical choices. However, generation is broken down into two phases to deal with context-sensitive properties in an efficient and convenient manner. The first phase enumerates test data (i.e., parse trees) with placeholders. The second...

BACKGROUND Grammatical impairments are commonly observed in the agrammatic subtype of primary progressive aphasia (PPA-G), whereas grammatical processing is relatively preserved in logopenic (PPA-L) and semantic (PPA-S) subtypes. AIMS We review research on grammatical deficits in PPA and associated neural mechanisms, with discussion focused on production and comprehension of four aspects of m...