In this paper we present a general purpose grammar for the deep linguistic processing of Portuguese that delivers high precision grammatical analysis and detailed meaning representations. We present the main design features and evaluation results concerning the grammar’s coverage as well as its ability to produce correct grammatical analyses.

Practical work on spoken language translation must pursue two types of efficiency: computational efficiency, and “language engineering” efficiency. This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of the GPL-based framework for spoken language translation that addresses both of these goals. In this framework, computational grammars are written in GPL, an easy-to-use imperative pr...

The words of different languages partition the world in strikingly different ways. Yet many people are unaware of such differences, believing that some of the words of their native language pick out discrete categories based in nature. We investigated whether knowledge of cross-linguistic semantic diversity—putatively inherent to bilingualism—can reduce such essentialist beliefs. In three exper...

Object manipulation techniques in robotics can be categorized in two major groups including manipulation with and without grasp. The aim of this paper is to develop an object manipulation method where in addition to being grasp-less, the manipulation task is done in a passive approach. In this method, linear and angular positions of the object are changed and its manipulation path is controlled...

The present study investigates whether a minimal manipulation in task demands can induce core linguistic combinatorial mechanisms to extend beyond the bounds of normal grammatical phrases. Using magnetoencephalography, we measured neural activity evoked by the processing of adjective-noun phrases in canonical (red cup) and reversed order (cup red). During a task not requiring composition (verif...

The present study investigates whether a minimal manipulation in task demands can induce core linguistic combinatorial mechanisms to extend beyond the bounds of normal grammatical phrases. Using magnetoencephalography, we measured neural activity evoked by the processing of adjective-noun phrases in canonical (red cup) and reversed order (cup red). During a task not requiring composition (verif...

Search engine interfaces come in a range of variations from the familiar text-based approach to the more experimental graphical systems. It is rare however that psychological or human factors research is undertaken to properly evaluate or optimize the systems, and to the extent this has been done the results have tended to contradict some of the assumptions that have driven search engine design...

The neuroanatomical correlates of musical structure were investigated using functional magnetic neuroimaging (fMRI) and a unique stimulus manipulation involving scrambled music. The experiment compared brain responses while participants listened to classical music and scrambled versions of that same music. Specifically, the scrambled versions disrupted musical structure while holding low-level ...

The OntoLex W3C Community Group published its final report on the Lexicon Model for Ontologies (lemon) in May 2016, specifying a suite of vocabularies for the linguistic grounding of ontologies and RDF datasets in general. The Linguistic Metadata (LIME) vocabulary is the lemon module describing coarse-grained metadata about datasets as a whole, to represent resuming information at the level of ...

The ability of children with moderate mental retardation to analyze orally presented sentences into words and words into syllables and phonemes was studied. The subjects, aged 10 to 15, were grouped by method of reading instruction. All of them could analyze spoken sentences into words and words into syllables equally well. However, subjects receiving code-emphasis reading instruction performed...