Combining intersection types with higher-order subtyping yields a typed model of object-oriented programming with multiple inheritance. Objects, message passing, subtyping, and inheritance appear as programming idioms in a typed-calculus, a modelling technique that facilitates experimentation and helps in distinguishing between essential aspects of the object-oriented style |encapsulation and s...

We evaluate a substitution based technique for improving Statistical Machine Translation performance on idiomatic multiword expressions. The method operates by performing substitution on the original idiom with its literal meaning before translation, with a second substitution step replacing literal meanings with idioms following translation. We detail our approach, outline our implementation a...

In our quest to design and develop more effective natural language processing systems, our user models are becoming more sophisticated. But we have not gone far enough. The notion of a user model can be extended to social groups and subculture to produce group models. In this paper we use ILP techniques to learn interrogative subculture idioms. From those idioms we produce a model of the interr...

This paper describes a new, psychologically-plausible model of human sentence interpretation, based on a new model of linguistic structure, Construction Grammar. This on-line, parallel, probabilistic interpreter accounts for a wide variety of psycholinguistic results on lexical access, idiom processing, parsing preferences, and studies of gap-filling and other valence ambiguities, including var...

In this study, we demonstrate that an open-domain conversational system trained on idioms or figurative language generates more fitting responses to prompts containing idioms. Idioms are a part of everyday speech in many languages and across cultures, but they pose great challenge for natural processing (NLP) systems involve tasks such as information retrieval (IR), machine translation (MT), ar...

Modern processors’ multimedia extensions (MME) provide SIMD ISAs to boost the performance of typical operations in multimedia applications. However, automatic vectorization support for them is not very mature. The key difficulty is how to vectorize those SIMD-ISA-supported idioms in source code in an efficient and general way. In this paper, we introduce a powerful and extendable recognition en...

Language in patients with Alzheimer's disease has been extensively studied, with the exception of non-literal language comprehension. However, in our speech, we often make use of expressions, which are not necessarily interpreted on a literal ground. Comprehension of metaphors and idioms was examined in 39 patients with probable early Alzheimer's disease. The results showed that the decline of ...

This paper contains the experimental design of an empirical study that aims to assess relative effectiveness a number pedagogical approaches designed boost comprehension new L2 Spanish idioms and foster their retention. Building on previous (Ureña Tormo 2019), we suggest testing three treatments, with two them encouraging participants guess meaning target idioms, before or after receiving infor...