Sign Language Semantics: Problems and Prospects

Motion-sensitive cortex and motion semantics in American Sign Language

Previous research indicates that motion-sensitive brain regions are engaged when comprehending motion semantics expressed by words or sentences. Using fMRI, we investigated whether such neural modulation can occur when the linguistic signal itself is visually dynamic and motion semantics is expressed by movements of the hands. Deaf and hearing users of American Sign Language (ASL) were presente...

Problems and Prospects in Collection of Spoken Language Data

In this paper, we focus on the information in speech data and discuss the research issues involved in collecting, organizing, indexing, retrieving and summarization of speech data. We share our experience about the problems and prospects in collection of spoken language data. We highlight some of the procedures, standards that need to be adapted in collecting the speech data, and discuss our pl...

Problems and Prospects of Introducing Islamic Microfinance in Azerbaijan Republic

Addressing Big Data Problems using Semantics and Natural Language Understanding

The need to solve the key problems related to Big Data in a practical and effective way is becoming very important as the data is growing very fast already exceeding the exabyte range. There are multiple problems with big data including storage, search, transfer, sharing, analysis, processing, viewing, and deriving meaning / semantics. Such problems are mainly due to the 4 Vs i.e. Volume, Veloc...

Biosafety: Problems and Prospects *

Advances in modern biotechnology arc being increasingly applied to product development for improved hcalthcarc. agricultural outputs and environment. The biotechnology industry has become a multi-bi lli on dollar industry. The extensive usc of recombinant DNA (rONA ) technology in industry, oft en entail s release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into the environment. There is a global ...