We seek computational models of the referential use of signing space and of spatially inflected verb forms for use in American Sign Language (ASL) animations for accessibility applications for deaf users. We describe our collection and annotation of an ASL motion-capture corpus to be analyzed for our research. We compare alternative prompting strategies for eliciting single-signer multi-sentent...

We examined how listeners circumscribe referential domains for referring expressions by monitoring participant’s eye movements as they engaged in a natural interactive problemsolving task with another naïve participant. This research had two goals: (1) determine whether existing psycholinguistic methodologies for studying online processing can be extended to interactive conversation, and (2) as...

Referential integrity, which guarantees that named resources can be accessed when referenced, is an important property for reliability and security. In distributed systems, however, the attempt to provide referential integrity can itself lead to security vulnerabilities that are not currently well understood. This paper identifies three kinds of referential security vulnerabilities related to t...

Referential thinking is the tendency to view innocuous stimuli as having a specific meaning for the self and is associated with personality traits and disorders. In three studies, this research examined the relations among referential thinking, self-processing, and paranoia. In study 1, follow-up questions on the Referential Thinking Scale (Lenzenweger, Bennett, & Lilenfeld, 1997) revealed that...

To prevent information leakage in multilevel secure data models, the concept of polyinstantiation was inevitably introduced. Unfortunately, when it comes to references through foreign key in multilevel relational data models, the polyinstantiation causes referential ambiguities. To resolve this problem, this paper proposes an extended referential integrity semantics for a multilevel relational ...

Referential knowledge is vital for resolving various problems in NLP, such as anaphora resolution. For example, we have the referential knowledge that diagnose is most likely a member of the referential relation ‘doctor diagnose patient’s illness’. Nariyama et al. (2005) presented an inventory of such referents as doctor, collected from Japanese dictionary definition sentences. Such referential...

The use of language to convey emotional experience is of significant importance to the process of psychotherapy, the diagnosis of problems with emotion and memory, and more generally to any communication that aims to evoke a feeling in the recipient. Bucci’s theory of the referential process (1997) concerns three phases whereby a person activates emotional, or bodily experience (Arousal Phase),...

Self-referential processing is a core component of social cognition. However, few studies have focused on whether self-referential processing deficits present in bipolar disorder. The current study combined a high-time-resolution event-related potential (ERP) technique with the self-referential memory (SRM) task to evaluate self-referential processing in 23 bipolar patients and 27 healthy contr...