During the last decade, there has been a shift from developing natural language generation systems to developing generic systems that are capable of producing natural language descriptions directly from Web ontologies. To make these descriptions coherent and accessible in different languages, a methodology is needed for identifying the general principles that would determine the distribution of...

We undertake a corpus-based diachronic analysis in order to explore how leaders China and Hong Kong have employed metaphors of EDUCATION major governmental speeches reports both before after Kong's handover from Britain China. The results this study demonstrate that SAR Chief Executives similar patterns source domain selections with Chinese Premiers as compared Colonial Governors, indicating th...

This paper shows how the syntactic strategies in assigning informational prominence in clause structures can be exploited in phrases. The thematic approach to phrases will shed clear light on the marked word order of elements in noun phrase (NP) and on how this allows increasing the degree of prominence of a component in NP. This is a general claim about different thematic strategies in NP whic...

To achieve overall business goals, GQM+Strategies® is an approach that aligns the business goals at each level of an organization to strategies and assesses the achievement of goals. Strategies derived from business goals are based on rationales (context factors and assumptions). Because extracting all rationales is an important process in the GQM+Strategies approach, we propose Context-Assumpt...

Conservation tillage (CT) systems have a number of potential benefits including lower crop production costs and the ability to reduce soil erosion that have made them common in several regions of the world. Although CT systems have been researched and successfully implemented on some farms in California's San Joaquin Valley (SJV), overall adoption is low and the reasons for the region's compara...

This paper examines the experimental results that reveal the referential behavior of children and how they navigate the complexity and quantity of structure in recursive NPs. Modification introduces complexity in the syntax and the semantics of noun phrases. Recursive modification, in particular, seems heavily constrained in the speech of children. We explore the source of children’s difficulty...

Asking children to clarify themselves promotes their ability to uniquely identify objects in referential communication tasks. However, little is known about whether parents ask preschoolers for clarification during interactions and, if so, how. Study 1 explored how mothers clarify their preschoolers' ambiguous descriptions of the characters in their narratives, and whether clarification request...

Self-referential processing has been identified as a possible tool for supporting effective encoding processes in the elderly population. However, the importance of self-reference per se, relative to the increase in meaningful elaboration normally associated with self-reference instructions, remains unclear. The present study sought to explore this issue further by examining self-referential en...