This study examines the centrality of ethics within editorials published in Canadian Institute Chartered Accountants’ professional journal, CA Magazine, over 1912 to 2010 period. Starting from twin assumptions that speak about appropriate behavior using a variety words such as ‘ethics,’ ‘conduct,’ and ‘codes,’ is situational, we use topic modeling techniques identify these dimensions ethical di...

The semantic validation of utterances as true or false is known in logic and linguistics. However, linguistic messages are validated not only on the semantic but also on the pragmatic level. In most linguistic studies, pragmatics is defined mostly as the interrelation between speakers and is considered as a mere supplement to semantics. In our approach (we call MIC : meta-informative centering ...

background: since most clinical treatments of persian children’s language impairments are based on either the therapist, clinicians’ experiences (mostly), or english language norms (sometimes), comparing two minor indices of speech quality, namely “mean length of utterance” (mlu) and “mean length of five phrasal utterances” (mlfpu) between different age groups of children, would be unequivocall...

The rapidly increasing number of spoken-dialogue systems have led to numerous robust parsers for limited domains having been constructed during the last decade. By “parsing” we here mean a mapping from the input utterance to a context-independent semantic representation. By “robust” we mean that the parser will give a reasonable result even on very noisy input. In simple spoken-dialogue applica...

We propose a computational model of visually-grounded spatial language understanding, based on a study of how people verbally describe objects in visual scenes. We describe our implementation of word level visually-grounded semantics and their embedding in a compositional parsing framework. The implemented system selects the correct referents in response to a broad range of referring expression...