Rhythm's gonna get you: Regular meter facilitates semantic sentence processing

Rhythm's gonna get you: Regular meter facilitates semantic sentence processing

Rhythm is a phenomenon that fundamentally affects the perception of events unfolding in time. In language, we define 'rhythm' as the temporal structure that underlies the perception and production of utterances, whereas 'meter' is defined as the regular occurrence of beats (i.e. stressed syllables). In stress-timed languages such as German, this regularity functions as a powerful temporal and s...

Elaboration over a Discourse Facilitates Retrieval in Sentence Processing

Language comprehension requires access to stored knowledge and the ability to combine knowledge in new, meaningful ways. Previous work has shown that processing linguistically more complex expressions ('Texas cattle rancher' vs. 'rancher') leads to slow-downs in reading during initial processing, possibly reflecting effort in combining information. Conversely, when this information must subsequ...

SADI Semantic Web Services -- 'cause you can't always GET what you want!

SADI – Semantic Automated Discovery and Integration – is a set of standards-compliant Semantic Web Service design patterns that exploit the relatively straightforward interfaces exposed by most Bioinformatics Services to simplify and partially automate Service design and deployment. The SADI design explicitly exposes an important Service feature – the semantic relationship between input and out...

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Research Relevance-You Get What You Reward

This article argues that IS research is not relevant to the practitioner community due to the tenure-based reward system. It shows that long delays between performing research and publishing in a top journal make our research less timely and useful to practitioners. Teaching and publishing loads give our junior faculty less time to gain practical experience through working with practitioners; a...