With the spread of computers and the Internet, hearing news reports of topics such as people playing shogi or chess against computers has become commonplace. We live now in an era where computers appear on game shows. A research and development project at IBM is currently working on a computer system which will participate as a contestant on the popular American quiz show "Jeopardy!". It contai...

PURPOSE Over the past 50 years, language sample analysis (LSA) has evolved from a powerful research tool that is used to document children's linguistic development into a powerful clinical tool that is used to identify and describe the language skills of children with language impairment. The The Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT; J. F. Miller & A. Iglesias, 2008) Software Proje...

language learning strategies have been controversial ever since rubin’s (1975) landmark article more that 30 years ago. to this day, there is no consensus regarding exactly what a strategy is, which has impeded research initiatives and at times threatened the validity of research findings. the relationship between strategies and successful language learning has also been questioned. based on th...

A goal of human factors research with computer systems is to develop human-computer communication modes that are both error tolerant and easily learned. Since people already have extensive communication skills through their own native or natural language (e.g. English, French, Japanese, etc.) many believe that natural language interfaces (NLIs) can provide the most useful and efficient way for ...

C reating a common language provides one of a social enter-prise's defining moments, be it a technical, scientific, or humanistic venture. The lan-guage's most obvious utility derives from its allowing a field's participants to communicate among themselves. Its importance extends beyond this function , however. More than a neutral medium through which we exchange information , language serves t...