Imperative programming languages (such as Java) are the most widespread programming languages recently. Besides being quite easy to get familiar with them, they are also perfectly suitable for business software development. Although the productivity of imperative languages is much acclaimed, some problems are much easier to solve in a logical language. The paper introduces a Java language exten...

We present a structured reformulation of the seminal algorithm for automatic generation of test cases for a context-free grammar. Our reformulation simplifies the algorithm in several ways. First, we provide a structured reformulation so that it is obvious where to proceed at each step. Second, we partition the intricate third phase into five functions, so that the discussion and comprehension ...

All systems of automatic text processing are explicitly or implicitly based on two general linguistic ~ssumptlons: the assumption o~ grammatioallty of the texts processed, and the assumption of their meaningfulness. These assumptions, however, cannot be considered as absolute laws: It is not unoommon that a text, thongh acceptable to most speakers of the corresponding language, still contains s...

Poor writing is common in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). However, the writing performance of children with ADHD has been rarely formally explored in Taiwan, so the purpose of this study was to investigate writing features of children with ADHD in Taiwan. There were 25 children with ADHD and 25 normal children involved in a standardization writing assessment - Wri...

Mental Health Records (MHRs) contain freetext documentation about patients’ suicide and suicidality. In this paper, we address the problem of determining whether grammatic variants (inflections) of the word “suicide” are affirmed or negated. To achieve this, we populate and annotate a dataset with over 6,000 sentences originating from a large repository of MHRs. The resulting dataset has high I...

Researchers have sought to explain the observed \eecacy" of diagrammatic reasoning (DR) via the notions of \limited abstraction" and inexpressivity 17, 20]. We argue that application of the concepts of computational complexity to systems of dia-grammatic representation is necessary for the evaluation of precise claims about their eecacy. We show here how to give such an analysis. Centrally, we ...

BACKGROUND Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is associated with a range of disabilities, including physical, behavioural, and cognitive deficits. One specific area of concern in children with FASD is the use and development of speech and language. Language deficits in FASD have been linked to learning problems and social difficulties. OBJECTIVES The current study sought to examine the la...

Neurology 2010;75:582–583 When a patient presents with acute aphasia, today’s neurologist takes swift action to characterize the clinical syndrome and use neuroimaging and other tools to identify its pathophysiologic basis. One goal of these urgent efforts is to determine whether the patient has an ischemic process that merits thrombolytic intervention. We can only hope that tomorrow’s neurolog...