Reworking in developing software exists widely in IT project management. But the current estimating methods on project duration cannot deal well with this problem. In this paper, some key concepts, such as adjusted activity, adjusted GERT network, expected project duration, expected critical path, are firstly defined. Then authors study estimating method on project duration for different rework...

As a paratactic language, sentence-level argument extraction in Chinese suffers much from the frequent occurrence of ellipsis with regard to inter-sentence arguments. To resolve such problem, this paper proposes a novel global argument inference model to explore specific relationships, such as Coreference, Sequence and Parallel, among relevant event mentions to recover those intersentence argum...

The empirical focus of this paper is a conversational turn-taking phenomenon in which conjunctions produced immediately after a point of possible syntactic and pragmatic completion are treated by co-participants as points of possible completion and transition relevance. The data for this study are audio-video recordings of 5 unscripted face-to-face interactions involving native speakers of US E...

A language grounding problem is considered for nonuniform sets of modal conjunctions consisting of conjunctions extended with more than one modal operator of knowledge, belief or possibility. The grounding is considered in the context of semiotic triangles built from language symbols, communicative cognitive agents and external objects. The communicative cognitive agents are assumed to be able ...

Illusory conjunctions (ICs) provide evidence for a binding problem that must be resolved in vision. Objects that are perceptually grouped are more likely to have their features erroneously conjoined. We examined whether semantic grouping, determined by category membership (letter vs. number), also influences illusory conjunction rates. Participants were instructed to detect an "L" or a "7" amon...

This article presents a semantic analysis of indirect speech reports. The aims to explain combination two phenomena. First, there are true utterances sentences the form α said that φ which used report an utterance u sentence wherein φ's content is not u's content. implies in uttering single sentence, one can say several things. Second, when complements these reports (and indeed, themselves) pla...