An attractive way to model the relation between an underspecified syntactic representation and its completions is to let the underspecified representation correspond to a logical description and the completions to the models of that description. This approach, which underlies the Description Theory of (Marcus et al. 1983) was integrated with a pure unification approach to Lexicalized Tree-Adjoi...

From the viewpoint of a casual observer, it appears that less than 10% of the paper and panel presentations at ITC in the last 10 years have been related to board test. Of those, the majority have focused on boundary scan testing. Note that both IEEE 1149.1 and IEEE 1149.4 are standards for IC’s. Board testing continues to be a significant challenge for producers of both high volume and high co...

Speakers of English and Tamil differ widely in which relational roles they overtly express with a verb. This study provides new information about how speakers of these languages differ in their descriptions of the same scenes and how explicit mention of roles and other scene elements vary with the properties of the scenes themselves. Specifically, we find that English speakers, who in normal sp...

How much of the literature on social simulation is about modelling for modellers? Conversely, how much of the literature is directly about the world in which we live – that is, about society? As of the turn of October, 2006, the 20 most frequently downloaded papers in the flagship journal of the field, JASSS included a couple of reviews, 13 papers that cited no direct evidence and five that did...

What do people attend to when describing the locations of objects in space? This paper describes a study of the ways in which speakers of seventeen languages describe static spatial relations, delving into the meanings of two kinds of spatial relational terms evident crosslinguistically: specific spatial terms and generalized spatial terms. The findings provide support for the importance of geo...

Quantitative content analysis is increasingly used to surpass surface level analyses in computer-supported collaborative learning (e.g., counting messages), but critical reXection on accepted practice has generally not been reported. A review of CSCL conference proceedings revealed a general vagueness in deWnitions of units of analysis. In general, arguments for choosing a unit were lacking and...

BACKGROUND In 2008, researchers reported that Timothy Brown (the 'Berlin Patient'), a man with HIV infection and leukemia, received a stem-cell transplant that removed HIV from his body as far as can be detected. In 2013, an infant born with HIV infection received anti-retroviral treatment shortly after birth, but was then lost to the health care system for the next six months. When tested for ...

INTRODUCTION Talking about death and dying, either with patients terminally ill or well, presents challenges for the general practitioner. There are few Australian educational resources and little Australian research into this area. METHODS We undertook two focus groups, an interview process, and a final consultation with palliative care experts and GPs. RESULTS General practitioners felt t...

Automatic affect detection and classification from text is a complex task in Natural Language Processing , whose tackling requires not only the use of established methods in the field, but also the use of knowledge extracted from theories in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Social Psychology or Neuropsy-chology. For the past decade, there has been a large amount of research done in the field. Nev...

The increasing prevalence of social networks provides researchers greater opportunities to evaluate and assess changes in public opinion and public sentiment towards issues of social consequence. Using trend and sentiment analysis is one method whereby researchers can identify changes in public perception that can be used to enhance the development of a social consciousness towards a specific p...