We present a software retrieval scheme based on tex-tual documentation written in natural language. The distinguishing feature of this approach is to use the fuzziness inherent in natural language utterances as a feature to smoothen diierences of descriptions of like concepts made by diierent individuals. The theoretical basis of this approach, systemic functional theory, is adopted from lingui...

Causation is a very pervasive phenomenom in natural language which can be expressed by numerous linguistic alternatives. Any language user or natural language generation system is thus confronted with the .problem of choosing one alternative over another. In this paper, I analyze the semantic constraints determining the selection of analytic causatives in Dutch and how this can be accounted for...

Introduction: Stillbirth fetal loss (SFL) is a significant cause of infant death in the US, with 23,000 reported 2017. Negative psychological and emotional repercussions SFL, for parents nurses, may be mitigated by nurses’ preparedness to provide bereavement support (BS). Several studies exploring BS miscarriage-related were found. However, SFL providing are sparse. The purpose this study was a...

Spectrum-Based Fault Localization (SFL) is a popular approach for diagnosing faulty systems. SFL algorithms are inherently centralized, where observations collected and analyzed by single diagnoser. Applying to diagnose distributed systems challenging, especially when communication costly there privacy concerns. We propose two SFL-based that designed systems: one component multiple faults. anal...

Location-aware social network services are set to be the next generation of social networking services. These services typically allow users to send and receive messages and icons. Iconic signs, which look like what they represent, may be said to have a commonly understood meaning attached to them. However, this is fluid, leaving them open to variation in meaning. More precise meanings are free...

This article aims to analyze the linguistic representation of transsexual women from Ceará about female transsexuality. To generate and collect data, I used online ethnography (ANDROUTSOPOULOS, 2008) through semi-structured interviews. In analysis, lexical-grammatical choices were considered in light system transitivity Systemic Functional Linguistics (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2014) category Incl...

Language impairment is a commonly occurring consequence of brain impairment following left cerebral hemisphere stroke and traumatic brain injury. While some recovery usually occurs, persistent communication impairment interferes significantly with a person’s social functioning. Language rehabilitation aims to restore optimum functional communication by enabling a person to recover impaired lang...

the field of elt is constantly witnessing the introduction of new instructional approaches: one such perhaps recent initiative is critical discourse analysis (cda). accordingly, the present study was an attempt to investigate the impact of cda instruction on iranian efl learners’ descriptive and argumentative writing ability. to fulfill the aforementioned purpose, a sample toefl was primarily p...

The subject of this research is linguistic (or: language) audit. The term is new and not being widely used so far. Linguistic audit, in particular, is offered as a service of linguistic-consulting agencies’ activities. Modern linguistic consulting, according to the author, is a form of stimulating theoretical and practical development of linguistic ecology, a new branch of applied linguistics, ...

This article presents an overview of the notion of layering in three types of structuralfunctional grammars. Layering is interpreted in a broad sense to refer to two types of linguistic differentiations: (1) on the one hand, a distinction between levels of coding, namely, syntax/grammar, semantics, pragmatics; (2) on the other hand, a differentiation between speaker-related vs. content-related ...