The interest in using Finite-State Models in a large variety of applications is recently growing as more powerful techniques for learning them from examples have been developed. Language Understanding can be approached this way as a problem of language translation in which the target language is a formal language rather than a natural one. Finite-state transducers are used to model the translat...

We describe a formal language/notation for DNA molecules that may contain nicks and gaps. The elements of the language, DNA expressions, denote formal DNA molecules. Different DNA expressions may denote the same formal DNA molecule. We analyse the shortest DNA expressions denoting a given formal DNA molecule: what is their length, how are they constructed, how many of them are there, and how ca...

The discordance between expressions interpretable by a natural language interface (NLI) system and those answerable by a knowledge base is a critical problem in the field of NLIs. In order to solve this discordance problem, this paper proposes a method to translate natural language questions into formal queries that can be generated from a graph-based knowledge base. The proposed method conside...

We evaluated language development in deaf Italian preschoolers with hearing parents, taking into account the duration of formal language experience (i.e., the time elapsed since wearing a hearing aid and beginning language education) and different methods of language education. Twenty deaf children were matched with 20 hearing children for age and with another 20 hearing children for duration o...

We present in this work an outline of an ongoing research line in the framework of the Software Engineering Group (SEG) at the National University of San Luis. We describe here the previous work carried out by the group in formalizing UML using RSL, as well as the current and future work in the

Distributed systems can be very large and complex and the many different considerations which influence their design can result in a substantial body of specification, which needs a structuring framework if it is to be managed successfully. The purpose of the RM-ODP is to define such a framework. The Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) provides a framework within which supp...