Ethical codes such as CASLPA’s Canon of Ethics ensure that clients’ rights are protected over and above what is simply prescribed by law. However, ethical dilemmas often arise in everyday practice for which the canon does not provide specific guidance. For example, is there a moral cost to the quest towards acquiring a better voice or dialect, or “reducing” one’s accent? Four principles of clin...

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Conceptual Graphs (CG) as a graphical representation formalism may be beneficially used to represent and engineer formal specifications which accord to the DESIRE formalism. The CGDESIRE framework that we propose offers several advantages: It relies on a powerful knowledge representation formalism, it shortens specifications by using inheritance, it supports the knowledge engineer when specifyi...