Researchers in natural language processing (NLP) and machine translation (MT) in the past were mainly interested in linguistic theories, parsing and generation. They discussed specific types of language expressions such as garden path sentences, and did not pay much attention to problems v0hich may arise when huge volmne of real existing sentences are handled, such as newspaper articles, patent...

—In this paper, we introduce the " Garden Alive " system that allows users to interact with an emotionally intelligent virtual garden by manipulating tangible user interfaces. The Garden Alive aims to provide both entertainment and education. The proposed system is composed of three components. In the first module, tangible user interfaces bridge to the garden in a virtual world. In the second ...