In this paper we present the MAP language for expressing knowledge transfer and action restriction between agents in multiagent systems. Our approach is founded on the definition of patterns of dialogues between groups of agents, expressed as protocols. Our protocols are flexible and directly executable. Furthermore, our language allow us to specify the connection between communication and know...

We prove that every recursively enumerable language can be generated by a programmed grammar with context-free core rules using unconditional transfer with leftmost derivation of type 3 or type 2. We show that every recursively enumerable tally language can be generated by a programmed grammar with context-free core rules using unconditional transfer or by some k-limited ET0L system, where k 2 ...

In this paper we introduce the transfer conception MinT that is currently being developed for the prototype of the face-to-face translation system verbmobil.1 The acronym MinT stands for Minimal Transfer. MinT is a semantic-oriented transfer model that is based on some central ideas of the MRS-based approach outlined in [Copestake et al., 1995], and the Shake-and-Bake approach to machine transl...

This paper revisits visualization as a technique to enhance programming comprehension. It points out that animation, being a machine-driven visualization, is inadequate. Memory Transfer Language (MTL), as a visualization technique which is absolutely programmer-driven is demonstrated and discussed. It is shown that MTL can be plugged into current materials for teaching programming. Register Tra...

This paper describes the design and development of a system for syntactic structure transfer of Malayalam sentences to English. A syntactic structure transfer module is required in machine translation systems using a transfer based approach. The system uses a rule based approach. It makes use of rules of morphology of both Malayalam and English and syntactic structure transfer rules between Mal...

The therapeutic misconception arises wherever human subjects misinterpret the primary purpose of a clinical trial as therapeutic. Such misconceptions are particularly prevalent in trials involving severely ill subjects or novel and well-publicized investigational agents. In order to identify possible sources of the therapeutic misconception in gene transfer trials, 286 phase 1 human gene transf...

Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) has been quite widely used as the linguistic backbone for recent Machine Translation (MT) systems. The relative order-free functional structure (fstructure) in LFG is believed to provide a suitable medium for performing source-to-target language transfer in a transfer-based MT system. However, the linguistic information captured by traditional f-structure is syn...

Phonological transfer from the native language is a common problem for non-native speakers that has repeatedly been shown to result in perceptual deficits vis-à-vis native speakers. It was hypothesized, however, that transfer could help, rather than hurt, if it resulted in a beneficial bias. Due to differences in pronunciation norms between Korean and English, Koreans in the U.S. were predicted...

While many research studies have described Cantonese-Mandarin contact and the languages’ mutual influence in Guangdong Province, few of them delve into the linguistic mechanism that triggers Cantonese’s material (e.g. words, pronunciations, and/or grammar) transfer to Mandarin. This paper will work to explain this mechanism in Van Coetsem’s (1988) framework of “Borrowing and Imposition”. The Ca...