Early humans formed language units consisting of global and discrete dimensions of semiosis in dynamic opposition, or ‘growth points.’ At some point, gestures gained the power to orchestrate actions, manual and vocal, with significances other than those of the actions themselves, giving rise to cognition framed in dual terms. However, our proposal emphasizes natural selection of joint gesture-s...

Recently cultural theories of language evolution have gained significant momentum in explaining natural language. This paper reviews agent-based modeling, one of the key methodologies which is in part responsible for these developments. We discuss the most important challenges for a theory of cultural language evolution and the resulting dominant experimental paradigm. The discussion is framed ...

An international science program titled “Digital Belt and Road (DBAR)” was launched in Beijing last year, aiming for the sustainable development of the Belt and Road region using Earth observation big data. This presentation firstly introduces China’s Earth observation satellites including the four remote sensing satellite series, a high-resolution Earth observation system and other Earth obser...

A method for numerical expression of web site which is relating to satellite remote sensing and its application to knowledge based information retrieval system which allows retrievals with natural language is proposed and implemented. Through experiments with remote sensing related information, it is found that the proposed information retrieval system does work in particular for remote sensing...

Languages vary typologically in their lexicalization of PATH of motion (Talmy 1991). Furthermore, lexicalization patterns are argued to a¤ect syntactic packaging at the level of the clause (e.g., Slobin 1996b) and tend to transfer from a first (L1) to a second language (L2) in second language acquisition (e.g., Cadierno and Ruiz 2006). Crosslinguistic and developmental evidence suggests, then, ...

We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in a prisoner’s dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 sixto eleven-year old primary school children in the city of Meran, we find that cooperation generally increases with age, but that the gap between cooperation am...

The development and maintenance of satellite control software are very complex, mission-critical and cost-intensive tasks that require expertise from different domains. In order to adequately address these challenges, we propose to use visual views of the software to provide concise abstractions of the system from different perspectives. This paper introduces a visual language for process flow ...

In this paper we present new research in translation assistance. We describe a system capable of translating native language (L1) fragments to foreign language (L2) fragments in an L2 context. Practical applications of this research can be framed in the context of second language learning. The type of translation assistance system under investigation here encourages language learners to write i...

In recent years the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has seen a renew interest on the analysis of nonfactual, emotional discourse characterized by the presence of affective language and sentiments, and charged with subjectivity. One area which has not been properly investigated, however, is that of natural language processing in the field of psychology and more specifically to the ana...

Unlike typical negotiation experiments, these studies investigated when men and women initiate negotiations in the absence of overt prescriptions to negotiate. Using a new experimental paradigm, the authors showed that the framing of situations is a critical driver of gender differences in initiating negotiations. Drawing on literature on language, power, and politeness, the authors argued that...