EXTENDED ABSTRACT This talk will present an ACT-R model that uni-es two phenomena in text comprehension: Moses illusion and metaphor understanding. Empirical data about Moses illusion shows that, in about 45% of cases, people are not able to detect distortions in sentences like How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the ark?, in spite of being instructed to look for distortions and in ...

6 Many a young man who has received his spiritual nurture within the evan-gelical tradition, and who seeks to test his fitness for the Christian ministry, finds the very fundamentals of his faith challenged, modified, and even rejected outright by the theological teachers under whom he places himself. Often the evangelical theological student is limited by his denominational interests in the ch...

the principles of political thought in the meccan verses of the quran being discussed in the previous issue, now a few practical examples from the holy quran are presented. the experiences of some prophets, from noah to moses, are studied in the light of quranic political thought. while studying the political interactions between people and prophets, we will realize that prophets such as noah, ...

THE PENTATEUCH INCLUDES THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS of the Hebrew Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy). These books separate into two unequal parts: Genesis and Exodus-Deuteronomy. Genesis traces the ancestral origins of Israel. No single character dominates the story. Genesis 1-11 presents a panoramic view of creation, including the formation of heaven and earth and all humani...

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This paper gives an overview of the Moses tool suite, a set of tools for visual language programming. In Moses, visual language syntax is de ned by rst-order predicates over the abstract syntax of a picture{an attributed graph. One way of specifying language semantics in Moses is by writing an Abstract State Machine that interprets a given attributed graph. This paper shows how the editor is pa...

This paper presents an automatic grapheme to phoneme conversion system that uses statistical machine translation techniques provided by the Moses Toolkit. The generated word pronunciations are employed in the dictionary of an automatic speech recognition system and evaluated using the ESTER 2 French broadcast news corpus. Grapheme to phoneme conversion based on Moses is compared to two other me...