Natural Language Generation (NLG) can be used to generate personalized health information, which is especially useful when provided in one’s own language. However, the NLG technique widely used in different domains and languages—templates—was shown to be inapplicable to Bantu languages, due to their characteristic agglutinative structure. We present here our use of the grammar engine NLG techni...

Our purpose is to compare two tools used to help linguists analyze large corpora of raw Japanese text. We measure their precision while counting strings of morphs. Each tool is representative of a specific approach. The first tool is based on the statistical morphological analyzer MeCab. It first tokenizes and POS tags the whole sentence before searching and counting strings. The second tool, S...

By the early 1980s, corpus linguists were still considered maverick and were still pushing at the boundaries of language-processing technology, but a culture was slowly bootstrapping itself into place, as successive research results (e.g. Collins-Cobuild Dictionary) encouraged the sense that empirical data analysis was a sine qua non for linguists, and a terminology of corpus linguistics was em...

Multiword expressions (MWEs) are vexing for linguists, psycholinguists and computational linguists, as they are hard to define, detect and parse. However, previous studies have not taken into account the cognitive constraints under which MWEs are produced or comprehended. We present a new modality for studying MWEs, keystroke dynamics. We ask subjects to respond to a variety of questions, varyi...

This paper analyzes inter-labeler agreement of label choice and boundary placement for human phonetic transcriptions of continuous telephone speech in diierent languages. In experiment one, English, German, Mandarin and Spanish are labeled by uent speakers of the languages. In experiment two, German and Hindi are labeled by linguists who do not speak the languages. Experiment two uses a somewha...

In this paper we present the definition of a conceptual approach for the information space entailed by a multidisciplinary and collaborative project, “Cimbrian as a test case for synchronic and diachronic language variation”, which provides linguists with a test bed for formal hypotheses concerning human language. Aims of the project are to collect, digitize and tag linguistic data from the Ger...

Metalinguistic intuitions play a very large evidential role in both linguistics and philosophy. Linguists think that these intuitions are products of underlying linguistic competence. I call this view “the voice of competence” (“VoC”). Althoughmany philosophers seem to think that metalinguistic intuitions are a priori many may implicitly hold the more scientifically respectable VoC. According t...

This study aims to describe the design of hypothesis and feasibility Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract (CPA)-based multiplication teaching module improve numeracy literacy elementary school students. The research method used is Design Development (DD). procedure Planning, Production, Evaluation (PPE). result a (CPA) based on material in grade II Elementary School. modules have been validated by three...