An important issue when deening a rule-based agent programming language is the design of interpreters for these programming languages. Since these languages are all based on some notion of rule, an interpreter must provide some means of selection from a set of such rules. We provide a concrete and intuitive ordering on rules on which this selection can be based. This ordering is inspired by the...

This paper is a study of a certain type of collocations and implication and application to acquisition of lexical selection rules in transfer-approach MT systems. Collocations reveal the co-occurrence possibilities of linguistic units in one language, which often require lexical selection rules to enhance the natural flow and clarity of MT output. The study presents an automatic acquisition and...

This paper presents a new approach for resolving lexical ambiguities in one language using statistical data from a monolingual corpus of another language. This approach exploits the differences between mappings of words to senses in different languages. The paper concentrates on the problem of target word selection in machine translation, for which the approach is directly applicable. The prese...

Certain distinctions made in the lexicon of one language may be redundant when translating into another language. We quantify redundancy among source types by the similarity of their distributions over target types. We propose a languageindependent framework for minimising lexical redundancy that can be optimised directly from parallel text. Optimisation of the source lexicon for a given target...

We introduce a methodology for concept learning from texts that relies upon second-order reasoning about statements expressed in a ((rst-order) terminological representation language. This metareasoning approach allows for quality-based evaluation and selection of alternative concept hypotheses. Abstract We introduce a methodology for concept learning from texts that relies upon second-order re...

This report summarizes the selection process performed in order to ensure a modelling language of sufficient quality for describing processes based on multiple software quality models and standards. UML activity diagrams, EPCs and BPMNs are compared based on well-defined criteria: intelligibility, ability of expressing process elements and workflow patterns, software support, portability and wi...

I introduce seven criteria for determining the validity of competing theories for the original function of language. I go on to present a novel explanation that meets all the criteria: language originally evolved to teach kin. I suggest that the use of symbols subsequently generated evolutionary feedback at two levels, in the form of self-modified selection pressures that favored structures in ...

Node selection in trees is a fundamental operation to XML databases, programming languages, and information extraction. We propose a new class of querying languages to define n-ary node selection queries as compositions of monadic queries. The choice of the underlying monadic querying language is parametric. We show that compositions of monadic MSO-definable queries capture n-ary MSO-definable ...

In this paper, we present a Text to Speech (TTS) synthesis system for Bangla language using the opensource Festival TTS engine. Festival is a complete TTS synthesis system, with components supporting front-end processing of the input text, language modeling, and speech synthesis using its signal processing module. The Bangla TTS system proposed here, creates the voice data for festival, and add...