Left-hemispheric language dominance has been suggested by observations in patients with brain damages as early as the 19th century, and has since been confirmed by modern behavioural and brain imaging techniques. Nevertheless, most of these studies have been conducted in small samples with predominantly Anglo-American background, thus limiting generalization and possible differences between cul...

Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems can make data accessible in an easily digestible textual form; but using such systems requires sophisticated linguistic and sometimes even programming knowledge. We have designed and implemented an environment for creating and modifying NLG templates that requires no programming knowledge, and can operate with a minimum of linguistic knowledge. It allow...

Several studies demonstrate that in complex auditory scenes, speech recognition is improved when the competing background and target speech differ linguistically. However, such studies typically utilize spatially co-located speech sources which may not fully capture typical listening conditions. Furthermore, co-located presentation may overestimate the observed benefit of linguistic dissimilari...

Users of Natural Language Generation systems are required to have sophisticated linguistic and sometimes even programming knowledge, which has hindered the adoption of this technology by individuals outside the computational linguistics research community. We have designed and implemented a visual environment for creating and modifying NLG templates which requires no programming ability and min...

What is the relevant unit for a linguistic analysis? We have gradually extended the context seen as necessary for explicating linguistic phenomena from the syntacticians’ S, to the larger linguistic text (see [Halliday and Hasan, 1976], [Stalnaker, 1978], [Gazdar, 1979]), and even to encyclopedic, general knowledge stored in our memory ([Prince, 1981b], [Clark and Marshall, 1981]). The relevanc...

Standard language ideologies, as a construct characterizing presumably unmarked and stable ways of speaking or writing, pervade all aspects social life, schools make no exception. The classroom realities in Berlin, our field investigation, remain fixed on idealized notions (White) monolingual standard German. On the basis eight interviews with multilingual women aged 16–23 who speak German Turk...

The intuitionistic linguistic set (ILS) is an extension of linguisitc variable. To overcome the drawback of using single real number to represent membership degree and non-membership degree for ILS, the concept of interval-valued intuitionistic linguistic set (IVILS) is introduced through representing the membership degree and non-membership degree with intervals for ILS in this paper. The oper...

Because of the complexity of decision-making environment, the uncertainty of fuzziness and the uncertainty of grey maybe coexist in the problems of multi-attribute group decision making. In this paper, we study the problems of multi-attribute group decision making with hybrid grey attribute data (the precise values, interval numbers and linguistic fuzzy variables coexist, and each attribute val...