Performance of Natural Language Interface often deteriorates due to linguistic phenomena of Semantic Symmetry and Ambiguous Modification (Katz and Lin, 2003). In this paper we present algorithms to handle problems caused by semantic symmetry and ambiguous modification. Use of these algorithms has improved the precision of Natural Language Interface. Proposed shallow parsing based algorithms red...

In her article "Dante's Linguistic Detail in Shelley's Triumph of Life" Anita O'Connell analyzes Shelley's attention to detail in Dante's poetic style and presents a close textual analysis of the ways Shelley draws on the beauty of Dante's texts. When Dante's Divine Comedy re-emerged into the public sphere in Britain through Henry Cary's 1814 translation, his reputation was as a stern, dark, Me...

In linguistic studies, the academic level of the vocabulary in a text can be described in terms of statistical physics by using a "temperature" concept related to the text's word-frequency distribution. We propose a "comparative thermo-linguistic" technique to analyze the vocabulary of a text to determine its academic level and its target readership in any given language. We apply this techniqu...

Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten, Libman, Alexander, and Yu, Xiaofan—Economic integration in China: Politics and culture The aim of the paper is to explicitly disentangle the role of political and cultural boundaries as factors of fragmentation of economies within large countries. On the one hand, local protectionism plays a substantial role in many federations and decentralized states. On the other h...

We have been using the term “Polynesian languages” implying that these languages belong in a single group and that they are somehow related. But what does it mean to say that languages are related? What is the basis for the assumption that, say, Hawaiian and Samoan are related? There are two major methods that are relevant to these questions: the comparative method and lexicostatistics. The com...

Employing a linguistic-visual paradigm, we investigated whether the grammaticization of gender information impacts readers' gender representations. French and German were taken as comparative languages, taking into account the male gender bias associated to both languages, as well as the comparative gender biases associated to their plural determiners (French: les [generic] vs. German: die [mor...

In appearance, Husserl’s writings seem not to have had any influence on linguistic research, nor does what the German philosopher wrote about language seem to be worth a place in the history of linguistics. The purpose of the paper is exactly to contrast this view, by reassessing both the position and the role of Husserl’s early masterpiece — the Logical Investigations — within the history of l...

In order to discover the inner properties of human expert heuristics, which were successful in a certain class of complex control systems, and apply them to different systems, we develop a formal theory, the Linguistic Geometry. This research includes the development of syntactic tools for knowledge representation and reasoning about large-scale hierarchical complex systems. It relies on the fo...

The comparative evaluation of Arabic HPSG grammar lexica requires a deep study of their linguistic coverage. The complexity of this task results mainly from the heterogeneity of the descriptive components within those lexica (underlying linguistic resources and different data categories, for example). It is therefore essential to define more homogeneous representations, which in turn will enabl...

This paper presents comparative analyses, and recognition experiments, on read and spontaneous Italian speech collected from children. The presented analyses focus on linguistic variations, variations in phone duration, and the scattering of phones in the acoustic space. The aim of these analyses is to achieve a better understanding of acoustic and linguistic difference between read and spontan...