This study extended cross-language semantic decoding (based on a concept's fMRI signature) to the decoding of sentences across three different languages (English, Portuguese and Mandarin). A classifier was trained on either the mapping between words and activation patterns in one language or the mappings in two languages (using an equivalent amount of training data), and then tested on its abil...

Belief update and reasoning about actions are two well studied areas of research about the evolution of knowledge over time. The similarities between these two fields have already been pointed out by some researchers: for example del Val and Shoham [4] use a theory of action to derive a semantics for belief update; Li and Pereira [8] use a Ginsberg-like semantics for updating a theory of action...

Since Talmy (2000 a&b) introduced his linguistic typology based on event conflation, it has been the source of much debate and ongoing research. One area that can particularly benefit from such research is the field of Second Language Acquisition. Cadierno (2008), Inagaki (2002) and many others have attempted to unveil the differences and difficulties that occur when learning a second language ...

An online tool based on dialectometric methods, DistGraph, is applied to a group of Kru languages of Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia and Burkina Faso. The inputs to this resource consist of tables of languages x linguistic features (e.g. phonological, lexical or grammatical), and statistical and graphical outputs are generated which show similarities and differences between the languages in terms of the...

Hindi and Punjabi are closely related languages with lots of similarities in syntax and vocabulary Both Punjabi and Hindi languages have originated from Sanskrit which is one of the oldest language. In terms of speakers, Hindi is third most widely spoken language and Punjabi is twelfth most widely spoken language. Punjabi language is mostly used in the Northern India and in some areas of Pakist...

One of the purposes of the VarDial workshop series is to encourage research into NLP methods that treat human languages as a continuum, by designing models that exploit the similarities between languages and variants. In my work, I am using a continuous vector representation of languages that allows modeling and exploring the language continuum in a very direct way. The basic tool for this is a...

Large organizations tend to have hundreds of business processes. Discovering and understanding similarities among business processes can be useful to organizations for a number of reasons including better overall process management and maintenance. In this paper we present a novel and efficient approach to cluster and retrieve business processes. A given set of business processes are clustered ...

The study deals with normative and linguistic peculiarities electric vehicle terms standardization in French language on international, national, branch, levels, as well their proper development. It examines articles term language, identifies describes stages of a new system presents schematically the results. is novel that it systematically contribution international national bodies, branch li...

Both LATEX and HTML are languages that can express the structure of a document, and similarities between these two systems are shown. A detailed study is made of the LaTeX2HTML program, written by Nikos Drakos, that is today the most complete utility for translating LATEX code into HTML, providing a quasi-automatic translation for most elements. A discussion of a few other tools for translating...