We present an approach to na tura l language unders tanding based on a computable grammar of const~ctions. A construetionconsists of a set of features of form and a description of meaning in a context. A grammar is a set of constructions. This kind of grammar is the key element of MINCAL, an implemented natural language speech-enabled interface to an online calendar system. Tile architecture ha...

It has long been recognized that there is a natural dependence between theories of knowledge representation and theories of knowledge acquisition, with the idea that the right knowledge representation enables acquisition to happen as reliably as it does. Given this, a reasonable criterion for a theory of knowledge representation is that it be useful for acquisition, particularly in non-trivial ...

Araştırmada ilkokul öğrencilerinin dil bilgisi hakkındaki bilgi, metafor ve yanılsamalarını tespit etmek amaçlanmıştır. Çalışmada nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden durum çalışması (case study) yaklaşımı benimsenmiştir. Çalışma grubunu İstanbul ilinde yaşayan 250 4. sınıf öğrencisi oluşturmaktadır. Veri toplama aracı olarak 21 sorudan oluşan yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formu kullanılmıştır. Verile...

The emergence of Industrial Revolution 4.0 targets challenging the norm and pushing boundaries. Hence, educational institutions are expected to embrace a few methods adopt technology as part their instructional strategies. incorporation can nurture students' motivation learn English, particularly grammar. While game-based grammar learning provides motivation, enjoyment, acquisition knowledge, t...

Reading is a gate for grasping any insight of knowledge and science. The objective the research was accepted to report relationship among reading interest, grammar knowledge, comprehension narrative text. It conducted tenth-grade students State Islamic senior high school in Senior High School 3 Pandeglang. methodology applied quantitative used simple random sampling technique. Three instruments...

This paper explores the usefulness of a technique from software engineering, code instrumentation, for the development of large-scale natural language grammars. Information about the usage of grammar rules in test and corpus sentences is used to improve grammar and testsuite, as well as adapting a grammar to a specific genre. Results show that less than half of a large-coverage grammar for Germ...

To facilitate the development of spoken dialog systems and speech enabled applications, we introduce SGStudio (Semantic Grammar Studio), a grammar authoring tool that enables regular software developers with little speech/linguistic background to rapidly create quality semantic grammars for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and spoken language understanding (SLU). We focus on the underlying te...