Our efforts in the 2013 NLI shared task focused on the potential benefits of external corpora. We show that including training data from multiple corpora is highly effective at robust, cross-corpus NLI (i.e. open-training task 1), particularly when some form of domain adaptation is also applied. This method can also be used to boost performance even when training data from the same corpus is av...

Neuroimaging studies of audiovisual speech processing have exclusively addressed listeners' native language (L1). Yet, several behavioural studies now show that AV processing plays an important role in non-native (L2) speech perception. The current fMRI study measured brain activity during auditory, visual, audiovisual congruent and audiovisual incongruent utterances in L1 and L2. BOLD response...

This study aims at assessing how bilinguals select words in the appropriate language in production and recognition while minimizing interference from the non-appropriate language. Two prominent models are considered which assume that when one language is in use, the other is suppressed. The Inhibitory Control (IC) model suggests that, in both production and recognition, the amount of inhibition...

For five years t h e End-User Friendly Interface to Data management (EUFID) project team at System Development Corporation worked on the design and implementation of a Natural-Language Interface (NLI) system that was to be independent of both the application and the database management system. In this paper we describe application, natural-language and d a t a b a s e management problems involv...

The role of phonological neighborhood density in lexical access was examined during nativeand nonnative language production. German-English and English-German bilinguals named pictures of German words with highand low-density neighborhoods. Results revealed that accuracy of picture naming was influenced by phonological neighborhood, with high-density neighborhoods facilitating lexical access in...

the current research is based on comprehensive studies in the field of arabic dictionaries compilations as well as experiences of authors in imparting the arabic language education in iran for years. as any language learning requires a dictionary, and since researchers in the area of second language teaching always suggest using monolingual dictionaries, it seems necessary to discuss the merits...

We show the perception of Canadian French (CF) vowels by Canadian English (CE) listeners and test a cue-weighting hypothesis to explain the attested assimilation patterns. Five CF vowels, /i, y, u, , æ/, and three allophonic variants, [, , ], were examined. The listeners completed a native-language identification task with goodness of fit judgments. We found that most French vowels were ide...

We show the perception of Canadian French (CF) vowels by Canadian English (CE) listeners and test a cue-weighting hypothesis to explain the attested assimilation patterns. Five CF vowels, /i, y, u, , æ/, and three allophonic variants, [, , ], were examined. The listeners completed a native-language identification task with goodness of fit judgments. We found that most French vowels were ide...

The main results: A ring R is CN if and only if for any x ∈ N(R) and y ∈ R, ((1+x)y)n+k = (1+x)n+kyn+k, where n is a fixed positive integer and k = 0, 1, 2; (2) Let R be a CN ring and n ≥ 1. If for any x, y ∈ R\N(R), (xy)n+k = xn+kyn+k, where k = 0, 1, 2, then R is commutative; (3) Let R be a ring and n ≥ 1. If for any x ∈ R\N(R) and y ∈ R, (xy)k = xkyk, k = n, n + 1, n + 2, then R is commutati...

introduction: aphasia is a language disorder resulting from a lesion in the cerebral cortex. in this case report, we present a polyglot patient who recovered from aphasia by speaking his newly active learned language case report: a 69 years old male referred with acute onset right hemiparesis and global aphasia. after imaging, he treated with 75 mg r-tpa (0.9 mg/kg). after the fourth day of hos...