We describe the design, development, and API of ODIN (Open Domain INformer), a domainindependent, rule-based event extraction (EE) framework. The proposed EE approach is: simple (most events are captured with simple lexico-syntactic patterns), powerful (the language can capture complex constructs, such as events taking other events as arguments, and regular expressions over syntactic graphs), r...

The aim of this study was to examine the contribution of transcription skills, oral language skills, and executive functions to growth in narrative writing between fourth and sixth grade. While text length and story content of narratives did not increase with age, syntactic complexity of narratives showed a clear developmental progression. Results from path analyses revealed that later syntacti...

A two-way Textual Entailment (TE) recognition system that uses lexical and syntactic features has been described in this paper. The TE system is rule based that uses lexical and syntactic similarities. The important lexical similarity features that are used in the present system are: WordNet based uni-gram match, bi-gram match, longest common sub-sequence, skip-gram, stemming. In the syntactic ...

The need for improving software processes approximated the software engineering and artificial intelligence areas. Artificial intelligence techniques have been used as a support to software development processes, particularly through intelligent assistants that offer a knowledge-based support to software process’ activities. The context of the present work is a project for an intelligent assist...

Development of syntactic processing was examined to evaluate maturational processes including left language lateralization functions and increased specialization of brain regions important for syntactic processing. We utilized multimodal methods, including indices of brain activity from fMRI during a syntactic processing task, cortical thickness measurements from structural MRI, and neuropsycho...

Coordination between conversation partners occurs at multiple levels, including choice of syntactic structure. A number of outstanding questions concerning the origin of this coordination require novel analytic techniques. Here we introduce and adapt a widely applied dynamical analysis, recurrence analysis. We use this method to explore lexical and syntactic coordination between children and ca...

A new model of early language acquisition is introduced. The model demonstrates the staged emergence of lexical and syntactic acquisition. For a period, no linguistic activity is present. The emergence of first words signals the onset of the holophrastic stage that continues to mature without syntactic activity. Syntactic awareness eventually emerges as the result of multiple lexically-based in...