Most popular models of narratives and narrative analyses have been drawn on native stories, yet EFL learners’ narratives have not received due narrative analysis. The present study then aims at scrutinizing the structure of personal English stories as told by EFL learners. To this aim, three hundred narratives were collected through classroom discussions and interviews. Qualitative analysis met...

Temporal information is crucial in electronic medical records and biomedical information systems. Processing temporal information in medical narrative data is a very challenging area. It lies at the intersection of temporal representation and reasoning (TRR) in artificial intelligence and medical natural language processing (MLP). Some fundamental concepts and important issues in relation to TR...

Introduction Despite continuing debate in recent years over the etiology of between-group racial differences in intelligence [1] there is no published data examining racial differences in the neurobiological correlates of intelligence. We performed a retrospective analysis of fMRI data obtained as part of a study of normal language development in children ages 5-18 to examine the question of wh...