This talk presents a theory and ACT-R-based model of human sentence comprehension that embodies the following claim: Sentence comprehension consists of a series of cuebased retrievals from short-term (and long-term) memory, subject to similarity-based interference and activation decay. ACT-R does not merely serve as an implementation language for the theory; rather it serves as the vehicle for ...

The Arabic Treebank (ATB), released by the Linguistic Data Consortium, contains multiple annotation files for each source file, due in part to the role of diacritic inclusion in the annotation process. The data is made available in both ”vocalized” and ”unvocalized” forms, with and without the diacritic marks, respectively. Much parsing work with the ATB has used the unvocalized form, on the ba...

The paper examines the impact of the income distribution in a less-developed country (LDC) on its patterns of trade, through its influence on home market demand patterns. In a learning-by-doing model with nonhomothetic preferences, the authors show that import substitution under low inequality generates more focused learning and enhances trade potential more effectively. In addition, relative w...

Coverage has been a constant thorn in the side of deployed deep linguistic processing applications, largely because of the difficulty in constructing, maintaining and domaintuning the complex lexicons that they rely on. This paper reviews various strands of research on deep lexical acquisition (DLA), i.e. the (semi-)automatic creation of linguistically-rich language resources, particularly from...

In this paper, the multi-person decision making problems with various different types of incomplete linguistic preference relations are studied. Some new concepts, including incomplete uncertain linguistic preference relation, incomplete triangular fuzzy linguistic preference relation, incomplete trapezoid fuzzy linguistic preference relation, expected incomplete linguistic preference relation ...

This study examined four universal operating principles for first language acquisition proposed by Slobin (1973) and MacWhinney (1978). The applicability of these principles to second-language acquisition was tested by teaching children and adults a miniature linguistic system. The results suggested that the four principles played a major role in the learning of the system by 5-to 7-year-olds b...

The present paper is a critique of quantitative studies of literature. It is argued that such studies are involved in an act of reification, in which, moreover, fundamental ingredients of the texts, e.g. their (highly important) range of figurative meanings, are eliminated from the analysis. Instead a concentration on lower levels of linguistic organization, such as grammar and lexis, may be ob...

This paper deals with a number issues having to do with locality in natural language. Locality of selection is the problem of delimiting what syntactic and semantic information lexical items select. Related issues include the proper analysis of idiomatic expressions, control of overt pronominals, and cross-linguistic variation in lexical sensitivity to filler-gap dependencies. Closely related t...

Predictive linguistic theory generates a rich pattern of implications tying together the welland ill-formedness of linguistic structures. Visible extensionally as restrictions on the kinds of processes and optima that can and cannot co-exist within a grammar, such implications emerge from the constraint ranking patterns that lead to optimality and failure. The Elementary Ranking Condition suppo...

Large repositories publishing and sharing terminological, ontological and linguistic resources are available to support the development and use of translation. However, despite the availability of language resources within online repositories, some natural languages associations cannot be found (rare languages or non-common combinations, etc.). Consequently, multiple tools for composing linguis...