This thesis presents an object-oriented reverse engineering methodology using forms in order to recover semantics of legacy application, which has many problems such as increasing maintenance cost, and some difficulties in migration to new systems environment. But, most of legacy systems are important assets in organization. Therefore, it is very advantageous to use them continuously and they a...

This paper classifies six publicly available biomedical corpora according to various corpus design features and characteristics. We then present usage data for the six corpora. We show that corpora that are carefully annotated with respect to structural and linguistic characteristics and that are distributed in standard formats are more widely used than corpora that are not. These findings have...

the extensive research done on the interrelationship between different social factors such as social class, gender and age and different linguistic variables has shown that these factors have important effects on the way language is used. among these factors a special importance can be placed on age due to the role it plays in revealing different patterns of language use, such as the age-gradin...

Developing computational algorithms that capture the complex structure of natural languages is an open problem. In particular, learning the abstract properties of language only from usage data without built-in knowledge of language structure remains a challenge. We have developed a Bayesian model of the acquisition and use of verb argument structure from child-directed data. In our model, the g...

Sensible resource management requires a thorough and detailed description of resource usage as the basis for static design decisions or dynamic resource trading. Such a description not only has to consider what resources are used and when, but also has to capture resource properties and resource interactions, for instance. In current practice, however, ad-hoc solutions predominate, only address...