The term “genre” covers different aspects of both texts and documents, and it has led to many classification schemes. This makes different approaches to genre identification incomparable and the task itself unclear. We introduce the linguistically motivated text classification task language function analysis, LFA, which focuses on one well-defined aspect of genres. The aim of LFA is to determin...

Multi-hop ad hoc networks are envisioned to be an integral part of future mobile networks. Today, however, ad hoc networks lack the necessary resilience and reliability. This work proposes to use P2P routing overlays to enhance the dependability and performance of multi-hop ad hoc networks for devices that are subscribed to a provider.

Distance education is now an integral part of offering courses in many institutions. With increasing access to the Internet, the importance of distance education will only grow. But, to date, the specific benefits that distance education brings to student learning objectives remain unclear. We first propose a framework that links student performance and satisfaction to the learning environment ...

Non-compositional phrases such as red herring and weakly compositional phrases such as spelling bee are an integral part of natural language (Sag et al., 2002). They are also the phrases that are difficult, or even impossible, for good compositional distributional models of semantics. Compositionality detection therefore provides a good testbed for compositional methods. We compare an integrate...

According to the redundancy theory of truth, famously championed by Ramsey, all uses of the word ‘true’ are, in principle, eliminable: Since ‘snow is white’ is true if, and only if, snow is white, and ‘grass is green’ is true if, and only if, grass is green, and so forth, an attribution of truth to an explicitly mentioned sentence can always be replaced by the use of that same sentence. It has,...

We consider issues related to the expressive power of the programming language FP. In particular, we consider whether a number of variants of FP are fully abstract and expressively complete. For example, we show that a version of FP with only one-sided sequences behave similarly to PCF in that the addition of parallel or is suucient to make it fully abstract. However, the addition of parallel o...

Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Laboratories has been designing, developing, testing, and evaluating spoken language understanding systems in several unique operational environments over the past five years. Through these experiences we have encountered numerous challenges in making each system become an integral part of a user’s operations. In this paper, we discuss these challenges and ...

Grading is a primary cognitive operation that has an important expressive function. Information on degree is grammatically relevant and constitutes what Lazard (2006) calls a primary domain of grammaticalization: According to typological studies (Cuzzolin & Lehmann, 2004), many languages of the world have in fact at their disposal multiple grammatical devices to express gradation. In Italian, t...

In object oriented programming languages, classes are used to incorporate state (fields) and behavior (methods) that modifies the state. Typically, only a subset of a classes’ methods actually modifies the state. Methods that don’t modify the state are called side– effect free or pure methods. We propose to use purity information to classify methods as inspectors (methods that reveal informatio...