The Clafer modelling language relies on Alloy as its backend solver. Although Alloy is a good target language for the Clafer compiler because of the strong similarities between the two languages, it suffers in the presence of large integers. This paper explains the implementation of a new Clafer solver based on the Java constraint programming library called Choco. The solver needs to capture th...

In our paper we present a method for the automatic generation of single German Sign Language glosses from German words. Glosses are often used as a textual description of signs when transcribing Sign Language video data. For a machine translation system from German to German Sign Language we apply glosses as an intermediate notational system. Then the automatic generation from given German word...

Prosody evaluation is an essential part of computer-aided language learning system. In the paper, we investigate an automatic prosody evaluation method for Mandarin speech. The method is based on prosody comparison between the tested and standard utterance. The prosodic similarities are calculated from three aspects: tone, intonation and rhythm. Based on these similarities, a ranking algorithm ...

Orthographic similarities across languages provide a strong signal for probabilistic decipherment, especially for closely related language pairs. The existing decipherment models, however, are not wellsuited for exploiting these orthographic similarities. We propose a log-linear model with latent variables that incorporates orthographic similarity features. Maximum likelihood training is comput...

Both OWL-2 and UML static class diagrams lend themselves very well for conceptual modeling of complex information systems. To ease the choice between either of these languages it worthwhile to clarify the differences and similarities in the representation of different kinds of datatypes (primitive types, enumerations, complex datatypes, and generalization of datatypes) in static UML data models...

The hybrid clustering approach combining lexical and link-based similarities suffered for a long time from the different properties of the underlying networks. We propose a method based on noun phrase extraction using natural language processing to improve the measurement of the lexical component. Term shingles of different length are created form each of the extracted noun phrases. Hybrid netw...

How did language evolve? A popular approach points to the similarities between the ontogeny and phylogeny of language. Young children's language and nonhuman primates' signing both appear formulaic with limited syntactic combinations, thereby suggesting a degree of continuity in their cognitive abilities. To evaluate the validity of this approach, as well as to develop a quantitative benchmark ...

Mining social web text has been at the heart of Natural Language Processing and Data research community in last 15 years. Though most reported work is on widely spoken languages, such as English, significance approaches that deal with less commonly Greek, evident for reasons preserving documenting minority cultural ethnic diversity, identifying intercultural similarities differences. The presen...

Reasoning about sound similarities improves the performance of a Natural Language Understanding component that interprets speech recognizer output: we observed a 5% to 7% reduction in errors when we augmented the word strings with a phonetic representation, derived from the words by means of a dictionary. The best performance comes from mixture models incorporating both word and phone features....

this is a longitudinal case study of two farsi-speaking children learning english: ‘bernard’ and ‘melissa’, who were 7;4 and 8;4 at the start of data collection. the research deals with the initial state and further development in the child second language (l2) acquisition of syntax regarding the presence or absence of copula as a functional category, as well as the role and degree of l1 influe...