This report describes Eucalyptus, a natural language (NL) interface that has been integrated with the graphical user interface of the KOALAS Test Planning Tool, a simulated Naval air combat command system. The multimodal, multimedia interface handles both imperative commands and database queries (either typed or spoken into a microphone) while still allowing full use of the original graphical i...

The purpose of this paper is to solve the contextual ellipsis problem that is popular in our Chinese spoken dialogue system named EasyNav. A Theme Structure is proposed to describe the attentional state. Its dynamic generation feature makes it suitable to model the topic transition in user-initiative dialogues. By studying the differences and the similarities between the ellipsis and the anapho...

This paper argues that consideration of spontaneous speech errors provides insight into cross-linguistic analyses of syntactic phenomena. In particular, I claim that differences in the distribution of non-parallel VP-Ellipsis constructions in English and German, as well as variation in the spontaneously-occurring verbal speech errors, is explained by a parametric analysis of variation in the in...

Ellipsis Interpreting a verb-phrase ellipsis (VP ellipsis) requires accessing an antecedent in memory, and then integrating a representation of this antecedent into the local context. This problem was investigated in 4 speed-accuracy trade-off and 2 eye-tracking experiments. To investigate whether the antecedent for a VP ellipsis is accessed with a search or direct-access retrieval process, Exp...

like sentences, combination of words is the main part of syntax in persian language as well as in russian language and plays an important role in sentence structures of these languages. combination of words in russian language is divided into three categories: verbal combinations, nominal and adverbial combinations. the writers of this article have studied combination of verbs in russian langua...

This cross-sectional study investigated the spoken expository discourse skills of children and adolescents elicited in generation and retelling conditions. There were three groups of participants: young school-age children (M = 7.0 years; n = 64); intermediate-school-age children (M = 11.3 years; n = 18) and high-school-age students (M = 17.6 years; n = 18). Participants were asked to generate ...

The research reported here is part of a larger project investigating similarities and differences among varieties of ellipsis constructions, including VP ellipsis, Sluicing, Pseudogapping, Gapping and NP ellipsis. Merchant (2008), and more recently Tanaka (2011), have claimed that while VP ellipsis (VPE) can tolerate a mismatch in voice between antecedent and ellipsis site, Pseudogapping and Sl...