In the analysis phase of information systems development, it is important to have the conceptual schema validated by the business domain expert, to ensure that the schema accurately models the relevant aspects of the business domain. An effective way to facilitate this validation is to verbalize the schema in language that is both unambiguous and easily understood by the domain expert, who may ...

Business rules should be validated by business domain experts, and hence specified using concepts and languages easily understood by business people. This is the eighth in a series of articles on expressing business rules formally in a high-level, textual language. The first article [4] discussed criteria for a business rules language, and verbalization of simple uniqueness and mandatory constr...

The present research investigated cultural differences in the psychological and biological effects of verbalization of thoughts. Three studies tested how verbalization of thoughts requires a different amount of effort for people from cultures with different assumptions about speech and examined implications for the cognitive performance and stress hormone response to the task. The results showe...

The study examined whether concurrent and retrospective verbal protocols possess the potential to provide a non-reactive and valid account of the cognitive processes involved in fault diagnosis. With this goal in mind, a group of subjects performed a fault diagnosis task under concurrent and retrospective verbalization and in a silent control condition as well. In the task, concurrent verbaliza...

Runyankore is one of the top five languages spoken in Uganda. It is a Bantu language, thus it possesses the characteristic agglutinative structure, which is known to be challenging for the development of computational resources. It is also computationally under-resourced, which compounds the problem further. Given the recent progress in the verbalization (the process of writing the semantics ex...

It is widely believed that verbal processing generally improves memory performance. However, in a series of six experiments, verbalizing the appearance of previously seen visual stimuli impaired subsequent recognition performance. In Experiment 1, subjects viewed a videotape including a salient individual. Later, some subjects described the individual's face. Subjects who verbalized the face pe...

Verbal overshadowing refers to a phenomenon whereby verbalization of a non-verbal stimulus (e.g., he had slant eyes) impairs subsequent non-verbal recognition accuracy. In order to understand the mechanism by which this phenomenon occurs, we constructed a computational model that was trained to generate an individual-face-specific representation upon input of a noise-filtered retinotopic face (...

Verbal overshadowing reflects the impairment in memory performance following verbalization of nonverbal stimuli. However, it is not clear whether the same mechanisms are responsible for verbal overshadowing effects observed with different stimuli and task demands. In the present article, we propose a multiprocess view that reconciles the main theoretical explanations of verbal overshadowing der...

Verbalization is the process of writing the semantics captured in axioms into natural language sentences, which enables domain experts (who are not trained to understand technical/formal languages) to be able to participate in the modeling and validation processes of their domain knowledge. We present a novel approach to support multilingual verbalization of logical theories, axiomatizations, a...