The Cha’palaa language of northwestern Ecuador is characterized by the relatively high functional load it places on reduplication; it applies a variety of distinct types of reduplication across different word classes and construction types. This paper describes four major types of reduplication in Cha’palaa: full and partial repetition of ideophones (not a fully grammaticalized reduplication ty...

This article discusses differential comparatives involving the adjective of quantity duo ‘many/much’ in Mandarin Chinese. We show that the obligatory construal of a postadjectival duo-phrase as a differential phrase rather than a degree modifier is due to the interaction of four factors: (i) gradable adjectives denote measure functions rather than relations between degrees and individuals, (ii)...

A method based on extracted trunks is proposed for automatic determination of corresponding trees between a georeferenced pair of terrestrial images and airborne laser scanner data in a wooded area. Trunks in the terrestrial images are obtained by region growing segmentation between left and right edges of trunks detected within a region of interest. Trunks in a digital tree height model genera...

The purpose of this paper is to study a type-2 fuzzy multi-attribute decision making (MADM) methodology. Multi-Attributive Border Approximation area Comparison (MABAC) method is extended for MADM based on trapezoidal interval type-2 fuzzy numbers (TrIT2FNs).This method is a pragmatic and reliable tool for rational decision making due to its own characteristics. A systematic evaluation and asses...

Acupuncture has a beneficial effect when treating many diseases and painful conditions, and therefore is thought to be useful as a complementary therapy or to replace generally accepted pharmacological intervention. The attributive effect of acupuncture has been investigated in inflammatory diseases, including asthma, rhinitis, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, epicondylitis, co...

In Human Computer Interaction (HCI), the computer has to take many decisions to react in a way that human wants. As decisions in HCI are diverse, contradictory, and hard to measure it is hard to study and model them, e.g. finding a mapping from the users preferences to adaptions of the user interface. To ease these tasks, we developed MADL (Multi-Attribute Decision Language). This programming l...

This paper describes a workbench system for constructing a dictionary to interpret compound nouns, which integrates the acquisition of semantic information and interpretation of compound nouns. First, we extract semantic information from a machine readable dictionary and corpora using regular expressions. Then, the semantic relation of compound nouns are interpreted based on semantic relations,...