This report describes a telephone speech corpus collected at the Oregon Graduate Institute's Center for Spoken Language Understanding. Over four thousand people called in response to public requests. They were prompted by a recorded voice to say and spell their rst and last names|with and without pauses, to say what city they grew up in and what city they were calling from, and to answer two ye...

Question Answering (QA) evaluation potentially provides a way to evaluate systems that attempt to understand texts automatically. Although current QA technologies are still unable to answer complex questions that require deep inference, we believe QA evaluation techniques must be adapted to drive QA research in the direction of deeper understanding of texts. In this paper we propose such evolut...

The problem of finding an energy conserving norm for the solution of the hyperbolic system of partial differential equations du/dt = Adu/dx, subject to boundary conditions, is reduced to the problem of characterizing those matrices appearing in the boundary conditions which satisfy two specific matrix equations. Necessary and sufficient conditions on the coefficient matrix A and the matrices ap...

Child victims of sexual abuse face secondary trauma in the crisis of discovery. Their attempts to reconcile their private experiences with the realities of the outer world are assaulted by the disbelief, blame and rejection they experience from adults. The normal coping behavior of the child contradicts the entrenched beliefs and expectations typically held by adults, stigmatizing the child wit...

This article presents the evolution of Golem’s myth in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me using myth’s actualisation presented Borges’ poem “The Golem”. An analysis how mythic roles embodied by main characters novel are reverted is provided, establishing a parallelism between and modern theme androids. The result this appears to be catastrophic for humanity as artificial creation life inclusion andr...

social interaction requires the ability to understand people’s mental states (their intentions, desires and believes). the ability for attributing mental states is called “theory of mind.” theory of mind leads the person to explain and predict behavior. researchers showed a great interest in the relation of language and mind/language and thought. some researchers focused on methodological conce...

Like any doctoral student, I wanted to write a compelling dissertation with meticulous archival research. The archive is often defined as the state’s official depository of administrative documents. In my case, National Archives in Egypt has somewhat mythic status: an object perennial desire that can prove frustratingly difficult access. And yet, there frequently expressed fear among students w...

Since the establishment of Johannes V. Jensen Centre at Aarhus University in 1993, studies Nobel Prize winner have shifted from biographical to textual. At same time, publication especially early works with critical commentary has intensified. The present article traces some themes throughout a half-century Jensen’s journalism, which was first assembled book form 2014 under title Word and Truth...