It has been a great privilege to attend this conference, which I am sure the future will regard as historic. I want to thank the organizers for making it in every way a very enjoyable experience, as well. Undoubtedly it will take us, collectively, many years to do full justice to the wonderful discovery announced here, that neutrinos have non-zero mass. Many important tasks remain at the level ...

Today is the era of intelligent personal assistants. All the major tech giants have introduced personal assistants as the front end of their services, including Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, Facebook’s M, and Amazon’s Alexa. Several of these companies have also released bot toolkits so that other smaller companies can join the fray. However, while the quality of conversational interactions...

By emphasizing the most noticeable part of gestures, the gesture stroke, this study investigated the spontaneous development of sign-systems created by two adult, non-native speakers of English while they summarized academic text for an audience. The focus of the study is on how participants integrated the sign systems of gesture, speech, and graphic organizers to make meaning across very short...

background considering the cognitive and linguistic complexity of discourse production, it is expected that individuals with traumatic brain injury (tbi) should face difficulties in this task. therefore, clinical examination of discourse has become a useful tool for studying and assessment of communication skills of people suffering from tbi. among different genres of discourse, persuasive disc...

– Yes: Huang (1982), Li (1985), Tang (1990), Tang (2000), Lin (2012) (among others) – syntactic evidence from control constructions, distribution of auxiliaries and aspect; Sybesma (2007) — adverbial distribution. – No: Hu et al. (2001) – no tense morphology, syntactic evidence from control constructions; Smith and Erbaugh (2005); Lin (2006; 2010) – semantic evidence (aspect + temporal interpre...

The idea for a workshop focused on sodium and health was generated by the editors of the American Journal of Hypertension and the Chinese Journal of Hypertension as part of their emerging collaboration. It reflects a belief that scientists and clinicians interested in blood pressure and its related conditions would profit from more effective communication and interaction. Salt was chosen as a c...

The similarity relation of a number of texts is important not only for congress organizers (who need to group the proposed contributions to meaningful sessions) but to everybody who wants to find certain information within a larger number of texts. Existing information retrieval methods compare texts according to their similarity. Because these methods mostly remain on the surface of the words,...