Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) have been instrumental for discerning the relationship between children's aerobic fitness and aspects of cognition, yet language processing remains unexplored. ERPs linked to the processing of semantic information (the N400) and the analysis of language structure (the P600) were recorded from higher and lower aerobically fit children as they read normal sen...

Intelligent computer-assisted language learning (ICALL) systems give feedback on grammatical errors based on the syntactic analysis of an utterance. However, parsing a language learner sentence in isolation can result in multiple interpretations, which even humans may not be able to resolve. For deriving a helpful error diagnosis, an interpretation that is consistent with the intended meaning i...

: In this paper, we address the problem of detecting and correcting hidden spelling errors in Arabic texts. Hidden spelling errors are morphologically valid words and therefore they cannot be detected or corrected by conventional spell checking programs. In the work presented here, we investigate this kind of errors as they relate to the Arabic language. We start by proposing a classification o...

For a novice programmer, coding is equivalent to a nightmare. A novice programmer tries to replicate steps provided by the faculty and on compilation gets a number of errors which the novice programmer is not able to resolve. This system provides support to the faculty about the coding ability of the students and their ability to solve those errors. Also, the faculty can provide a solution to t...

The monitoring theory of language perception proposes that competing representations that are caused by strong expectancy violations can trigger a conflict which elicits reprocessing of the input to check for possible processing errors. This monitoring process is thought to be reflected by the P600 component in the EEG. The present study further investigated this monitoring process by comparing...

This paper describes syntactic repair and spelling correction of ill-formed sentences within a context-free grammar using non-static filtering, of ill-formed sentences which violate subjectverb agreement or premodifier-noun agreement. The system described here provides recovery of local trees, reconstruction of the sentence, and spelling correction of detected typographical errors. It also prod...

In this paper we present a testing tool for the diagnosis of errors in NLP Systems. We discuss briefly the relevance of testing tools for NLP Systems and advocate the idea of modular testing tools. liere we present an approach for the syntax component of NLP Systems. Our diagnostic tool for German syntax is an effort to construct a catalogue of syntactic data exemplifying the major syntactic pa...

Previous research suggests that native listeners may be more tolerant to syntactic errors when they are produced in a foreign accent. However, studies investigating this topic within the semantic domain remain conflicting. The current study examined effects of mispronunciations leading abnormality foreign-accented speech. While their EEG was recorded, speakers Spanish listened semantically corr...

Universal quantifiers occur frequently in proof obligations produced by program verifiers, for instance, to axiomatize uninterpreted functions and express properties of arrays. SMT-based verifiers typically reason about them via E-matching, an SMT algorithm that requires syntactic matching patterns guide the quantifier instantiations. Devising good is challenging. In particular, overly restrict...