Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG) is an open-source computational grammar formalism that is becoming increasingly popular for studying the history and evolution of language. This demonstration shows how FCG can be used to operationalise the cultural processes and cognitive mechanisms that underly language evolution and change.

In this squib we explore a strictly derivational explanation for the differences in possible middle voice constructions in Norwegian and Swedish. Whereas Norwegian allows by its lexical s-passive construction as well as a complex adjectival construction to stand in for middle semantics, only the latter option is available in Swedish. We argue that this contrast lies in the lexicalization of for...

In this squib we explore a strictly derivational explanation for the differences in possible middle voice constructions in Norwegian and Swedish. Whereas Norwegian allows by its lexical s-passive construction as well as a complex adjectival construction to stand in for middle semantics, only the latter option is available in Swedish. We argue that this contrast lies in the lexicalization of for...

The data generated within the construction industry has become increasingly overwhelming. Data mining technology presents an opportunity to increase significantly the rate at which the volumes of data generated through the maintenance process can be turned into useful information. This can be done using classification algorithms to discover patterns and correlations within a large volume of dat...

In this report the problem of forming chaotic signals with prescribed spectrum is discussed. An approach to construction of single-transistor chaotic oscillators with preassigned spectrum on the basis of “active component (transistor) – passive quadripole closed in feedback loop” structure is proposed. On example of capacitive three-point oscillator it is shown that in the oscillator with such ...

This paper presents a computational cognitive model of the construction process of complex, i.e., multi-part, visual mental images. The model is integrated into the cognitive architecture Casimir. The construction process is realized by the interplay of a spatial working memory structure and a passive quasi-pictorial visual representation. Both structures are successively build up on demand fro...

This paper is concerned with an intriguing difference between Japanese and English involving the progressive form be V-ing and the -te iru form as well as the passive constructions in the two languages. Some of the complex semantic properties of the -te iru construction in Japanese are discussed in Ogihara (1998), where I present a proposal to account for the multiple interpretations associated...

Collective construction is the research area in which autonomous multi-robot systems build structures according to user specifications. Here we present a hardware system and high-level control scheme for autonomous construction of 3D structures under conditions of gravity. The hardware comprises a mobile robot and specialized passive blocks; the robot is able to manipulate blocks to build desir...

This article characterizes key weaknesses in the ability of current digital libraries to support scholarly inquiry, and as a way to address these, proposes computational services grounded in semiformal models of the naturalistic argumentation commonly found in research literatures. It is argued that a design priority is to balance formal expressiveness with usability, making it critical to coev...

This contribution concerns the construction of meshless Lagrangian particle methods for the numerical simulation of multiscale phenomena in linear transport problems, where mass conservative discretization methods are essentially required. The proposed discretization scheme works with a finite set of unstructured nodes, each corresponding to one flow particle. In this method, corresponding part...