Following several decades of research on native language (L1) processing, psycholinguists have more recently begun to investigate how non-native language (L2) speakers comprehend and process language in real time. Regarding the traditional assumption that L2 learners have 'difficulty with grammar', this new research has revealed some unexpected similarities and differences between L1 and L2 pro...

Every piece of software uses a model to derive its operational, auxiliary, and functional procedures. Unified Modeling Language (UML) is standard displaying language for determining, recording, building product. Several algorithms have been used by researchers measure similarities between UML artifacts. However, there no literature studies considered measurements diagram similarities. This pape...

A non-linear semantic mapping procedure is proposed for cross-language document retrieval. The method relays on a non-linear space reduction technique for constructing semantic embeddings of multilingual document collections. In the proposed method, an independent embedding is constructed for each language in the multilingual collection and the similarities among the resulting semantic represen...

Language transfer, the preferential second language behavior caused by similarities to the speaker’s native language, requires considerable expertise to be detected by humans alone. Our goal in this work is to replace expert intervention by data-driven methods wherever possible. We define a computational methodology that produces a concise list of lexicalized syntactic patterns that are control...

This is the Lump team participation at SemEval 2017 Task 1 on Semantic Textual Similarity. Our supervised model relies on features which are multilingual or interlingual in nature. We include lexical similarities, cross-language explicit semantic analysis, internal representations of multilingual neural networks and interlingual word embeddings. Our representations allow to use large datasets i...

Native language affects the perception of segmental phonetic structure, of stress, and of semantic and pragmatic effects of intonation. Similarly, native language might influence the perception of similarities and differences among intonation contours. To test this hypothesis, a cross-language experiment was conducted. An English utterance was resynthesized with seven falling and four rising in...