It is argued that the principles needed to explain linguistic behavior are domain-general and based on the impact that specific experiences have on the mental organization and representation of language. This organization must be sensitive to both specific information and generalized patterns. In addition, knowledge of language is highly sensitive to frequency of use: frequently-used linguistic...

High accuracy for automated translation and information retrieval calls for linguistic annotations at various language levels. The plethora of informal internet content sparked the demand for porting state-of-art natural language processing (NLP) applications to new social media as well as diverse language adaptation. Effort launched by the BOLT (Broad Operational Language Translation) program ...

In his inspiring article, Frawley argues that a distinction should be made between representation and control in cognition. We would like to contribute to the further development of these ideas by penetrating the concept of cognitive computation from a cognitive–neuroscience perspective. Taking this perspective, two varieties of cognitive control can be discerned in what Frawley refers to as ‘u...

Experimental research during the last few decades has provided evidence that language is embedded in a mosaic of cognitive functions. An account of how language interfaces with memory, perception, action and control is no longer beyond the scope of linguistics, and can now be seen as part of an explanation of linguistic structure itself. However, although our view of language has changed, lingu...

Information visualization is characterized by a collection of design principles and evaluation frameworks, rooted in cognitive science research, human-computer interaction studies, and experiences from the fine arts community. Information visualization has been coupled with computational linguistics algorithms to present visualizations of many types of linguistic data. Evaluation is often not c...

Formosan languages are extremely diverse at all linguistic levels, from phonology to morphology to syntax. In fact, the Formosan languages are the most diverse within the entire Austronesian language family. This great linguistic diversity indicates a great time depth for an early settlement on the island, so as to make Taiwan the prime candidate for Austronesian homeland and the center of Aust...

This paper presents some preliminary results of the OPLON project. It aimed at identifying early linguistic symptoms of cognitive decline in the elderly. This pilot study was conducted on a corpus composed of spontaneous speech sample collected from 39 subjects, who underwent a neuropsychological screening for visuo-spatial abilities, memory, language, executive functions and attention. A rich ...

In this paper we show how a single framework for computational modeling of linguistic similarity can be used for solving many problems. Similarity can be measured within or across languages and at various linguistic levels. We model linguistic similarity in three stages: surface similarity, contextual similarity and distributional similarity. We have successfully used the framework for several ...

The quality of legislative drafting process at European and national levels is highly influenced by the legal drafters control over the multilingual complexity of European legislation and over the linguistic and conceptual issues involved in its transposition into national legislations. The DALOS project aims at ensuring coherence and alignment in the legislative language, providing law-makers ...

Linguistic adaptation is a phenomenon where language representations change in response to linguistic input. Adaptation can occur on multiple linguistic levels such as phonology (tuning of phonotactic constraints), words (repetition priming), and syntax (structural priming). The persistent nature of these adaptations suggests that they may be a form of implicit learning and connectionist models...