Purpose: A primary goal of aphasia intervention is to improve everyday communication. Although a large body of research focuses on treatment generalization, transfer of learning to real-world interactions involving discourse does not always occur. The goal of an integrated discourse treatment for aphasia (IDTA) approach is to facilitate such generalization. This article reviews generalization d...

This study describes an approach for modeling the discourse coherence of spontaneous spoken responses in the context of automated assessment of non-native speech. Although the measurement of discourse coherence is typically a key metric in human scoring rubrics for assessments of spontaneous spoken language, little prior research has been done to assess a speaker’s coherence in the context of a...

Accessing and browsing archives of multiparty conversations can be significantly facilitated by labeling them in terms of high level information. In this paper, we investigate automatic labeling of speaker roles and topic changes in professional meetings. Using the framework of unsupervised topic modeling we express speaker utterances as mixture of latent variables, each of which is governed by...

Direct quotations from business leaders can provide a rich sample of language which is in common use in the world of commerce. This language used by business leaders often uses: metaphors, euphemisms, slang, obscenities and invented words. In addition the business lexicon is dynamic because new words or terms will gain popularity with businessmen whilst obsolete words will exit their common voc...

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Interest in the rural has increased in Sweden during the last decades and the rural has become increasingly present as an object of politics, not least in social media. While social media have been recognised for their significance for social movements generally, less is written about how to understand rural movements online. The aim of this article is to study how politics of the rural is perf...

IR with reference corpus is one approach when dealing with relevant sentences detection, which takes the result of IR as the representation of query (sentence). Lack of information and language difference are two major issues in relevant detection among multilingual sentences. This paper refers to a parallel corpus for information expansion and translation, and introduces different representati...

medullary fibres may be easily traced to the cerebellum. This, indeed, was known to the older anatomists, who called it " processus cerebelli ad medullam oblongatam." In its course upwards, it meets with a mass or ganglion called corpus dentatum, which contains much brown matter, and is considered by Dr. S. a preparatory apparatus, destined to increase the medullary filaments which enter it. Fr...

Studies of cross-strait lexical differences in the use of Mandarin Chinese reveal that a divergence has become increasingly evident. This divergence is apparent in phonological, semantic, and pragmatic analyses and has become an obstacle to knowledge-sharing and information exchange. Given the wide range of divergences, it seems that Chinese character forms offer the most reliable regular mappi...