Language as a symbolic medium plays an important role in virtual communications. In a primarily linguistic environment such as cyberspace, words are an expressed form of intent and actions. We investigate the functions of words and actions in identifying behavioral anomalies of social actors to safeguard the virtual organization. Social actors are likened to “sensors” as they observe changes in...

The ability to recognize the actions of our conspecifics constitutes one of our fundamental cognitive abilities. The ability to understand, and to react to, human actions is thus crucial for cognitive systems of the future. Actions are complex entities, possessing several representations linguistic, visual, cognitive, and motor. The key to understanding actions is to understand the relationship...

Evidence indicates that adequate phonological abilities are necessary to develop proficient reading skills and that later in life phonology also has a role in the covert visual word recognition of expert readers. Impairments of acoustic perception, such as deafness, can lead to atypical phonological representations of written words and letters, which in turn can affect reading proficiency. Here...

Abstract As formal theoretical linguistic methodology has matured, recent years have seen the advent of applying it to objects study that transcend language, e.g., syntax and semantics music (Lerdahl & Jackendoff 1983, Schlenker 2017a; see also Rebuschat et al. 2011). One aims such extensions is shed new light on how meaning construed in a range communicative systems. In this paper, we appr...

Subgroup discovery can be defined as a form of supervised inductive learning in which, given a population of individuals and a specific property of individuals in which we are interested, find population subgroups that have the most unusual distributional characteristics with respect to the property of interest. Subgroup discovery algorithms aim at discovering individual rules, which must be re...

In this paper a Sequential Selection Process in Group Decision Making under linguistic assessments is presented, where a set of linguistic preference relations represents individuals preferences. A collective linguistic preference is obtained by means of a deened linguistic ordered weighted averaging operator whose weights are chosen according to the concept of fuzzy majority, speciied by a fuz...

objectives: auditory perception or hearing ability is critical for children in acquisition of language and speech hence hearing loss has different effects on individuals’ linguistic perception, and also on their functions. it seems that deaf people suffer from language and speech impairments such as in perception of complex linguistic constructions. this research was aimed to study the percepti...

The representation for pending realization decisions and planned linguistic actions (the results of earlier decisions) is a surface-level syntactic phrase structure augmented by explicit labelings for its constituent positions (hereafter referred to as the tree). 3 This working-structure is used simultaniously for control (determining what action to take next), for specifying constraints (what ...

encouraging an active lifestyle is an essential part of successful rehabilitation programs, and the link between physical activity and quality of life (qol) is well established among patients with mobility disorders. biomechanical aspects of wheelchair design play an important role in physical activity and social participation of disabled individuals. this review focuses on key biomechanical fe...