Finding authentic examples of grammatical constructions is central in constructionist approaches to linguistics, language processing, and second language learning. In this paper, we address this problem as an information retrieval (IR) task. To facilitate research in this area, we built a benchmark collection by annotating the occurrences of six constructions in a Swedish corpus. Furthermore, w...

1. Review of Subject Articles 2. Definition of Synergetics 3. Goals and General Approaches 4. Some Typical Examples 4.1 The Laser 4.2 The Convection Instability of Fluid Dynamics 4.3 An Example from Sociology and Linguistics 5. Basic Concepts 6. Applications to Science 6.1 Physics 6.2 Chemistry 6.3 Mechanical Engineering 6.4 Electrical Engineering 6.5 Biology 6.6 Psychology 7. Applications to T...

The paper attempts to contribute to the development of the mathematical models of verbal behaviour by demonstrating the use of multi-dimensional individual scaling methods for differential representation of verbal perceptual structures. The method is illustrated with data on computational analysis of perception of letters of Russian alphabet. The main concern of computational linguistics (at le...

Cognitive Linguistics (CL) is one of the principal branches of “second generation cognitive science”—the alliance of new approaches emerging from what has been called the “second cognitive revolution” of the last decade of the 20 century (Harré and Gillett, 1994). It is also the rightful inheritor of an older tradition, antedating the behaviorist ascendancy in mid-20 century psychology from whi...

PC-Life, a dialect of the LIFE language designed by A t-Kaci, extends the original design by some features, the most important of which are distributed disjunctions. LIFE integrates the functional and the logic-oriented programming styles, and feature types supporting inheritance. This language is well suited for knowledge representation , in particular for applications in computational linguis...

This paper describes the design and implementation of the programming language PC-Life. This language integrates the functional and the logic-oriented programming style and feature types supporting inheritance. This combination yields a language particularly suited to knowledge representation, especially for application in computational linguistics.

In this study, we attempt to bring to light various organisational and implementational clashes relevant to the conceptualisation of language policies at national level, and the planning of local practices with regard to degree programmes, language journals and conferences in Iranian higher education. We also prove that in its current status, the ELT syllabus in Iran, both at national and local...

Semantics is concerned with meaning: what meanings are, how meanings are assigned to words, phrases and sentences of natural and formal languages, and how meanings can be combined and used for inference and reasoning. The goal of this chapter is to introduce computational linguists and computer scientists to the tools, methods, and concepts required to work on natural language semantics. Semant...