This paper presents a model for generating French sign language gestures, which is based on both a semi-formal modelling approach, and on a specification formalism yielding to the translation of an utterance into a continuous data flow for the control of a virtual character. This approach benefits from knowledge of structural linguistics proper to sign language, and results of motion capture an...

Three times a year I get my copy of a wholly respectable mainstream linguistics journal. Its scholarly articles are rich in examples from varied languages, and alongside these detailed analyses it advances theoretical claims and counterclaims. Its many reviews point to much more of the same. But this journal content is of interest here for another reason than these scholarly ones. First, refere...

Standard Arabic (SA) is an extremely rich natural language that has unfortunately received very little interest within computational linguistics literature. We propose in this paper to explore this fertile ground and show the first steps towards the formalization of Arabic syntax and semantics by means of MultiModal Categorial Grammars. We will particularly focus on the analysis of some phenome...

Recent work in computational linguistics (Brill 1992; 1994) has described a transformation-based learner with impressive accuracy, speed and a lucid, concise representation. This work presents a set-based formal model of ambiguity, tagging and the transformationbased learning paradigm. We apply the model to the automatic learning of document format generation and recognition on multiple levels ...

The designers of virtual agents often draw on a large research literature in psychology, linguistics and human ethology to design embodied agents that can interact with people. In this paper, we consider a structural acting system developed by Francois Delsarte as a possible resource in designing the nonverbal behavior of embodied agents. Using human subjects, we evaluate one component of the s...

ambiguity is one of very important techniques in persian rhetoric, but in spite of its importance, it seems there is not enough accuracy in its definition and types.  the present essay tries to redefine the concept of ambiguity. we will begin by analyzing the definitions of ambiguity and amphiboly according to the old and new persian sources; then we presents a new definition and review and ana...

Chairmen: Fred Eggan and Daryll Forde. Papers discussed: Kluckhohn, «Universal Categories of Culture"; ~ Hoijer, «The Relation of Language to Culture";~ Martinet, "Structural Linguistics";~ Levi­ Strauss, «Social Structure"; ~ Boyd, «The Contributions of Genetics to Anthropol­ ogy";~ Steward, «Evolution and Process," Speakers: Eggan, Boyd, '''ashburn, Kluckhohn, Murdock,t Henry, HOijer, Ken­ na...

This paper presents an autobiographical account of Eugene Garfield’s involvement in chemical information systems. It traces his personal evolution from laboratory chemist transformed into an information scientist who combined his knowledge of structural linguistics and information technology into an algorithmic system for identifying molecular formulas in the literature. Recognizing the shortco...

Case assignment is one of the most important issues in theoretical linguistics. The goal of this paper is to describe both syntactic and semantic bases for case assignment in terms of Prototype theory [1, 2] and to give an explanation for the difference in case assignment between English and Japanese by examining the Instrument Subject construction and deverbal nouns. English allows the structu...