We outline what an integrated approach to language research that connects experimental, theoretical, and neurobiological domains of inquiry would look like, and ask to what extent unification is possible across domains. At the center of the program is the idea that computational/representational (CR) theories of language must be used to investigate its neurobiological (NB) foundations. We consi...

We are interested in bridging the world of natural language and the world of the semantic web in particular to support natural multilingual access to the web of data. In this paper we introduce a new type of lexical ontology called interlingual lexical ontology (ILexicOn), which uses semantic web formalisms to make each interlingual lexical unit class (ILU) support the projection of its semanti...

This article aims to show that linguistics, in particular the study of the lexico-syntactic aspects of language, provides fertile ground for artificial life modeling. A survey of the models that have been developed over the last decade and a half is presented to demonstrate that ALife techniques have a lot to offer an explanatory theory of language. It is argued that this is because much of the...

To reduce the complexity of studying a parallel mechanism for natural language learning and understanding which supports both utterance and discourse processing, we propose a computational model demonstrating the performance of a young language user just starting to construct two and three word utterances. Our model attempts to capture the explanatory aspects of parallel language processing and...

Partially conservative learning is a variant of partial learning whereby the learner, on a text for a target language L, outputs one index e with L = We infinitely often and every further hypothesis d is output only finitely often and satisfies L 6⊆ Wd. The present paper studies the learning strength of this notion, comparing it with other learnability criteria such as confident partial learnin...

We present a method for automatic generation of in-text explanatory hyperlinks for use in web publishing. A system using this method is currently in production as part of a service for enriching plaintext content. We recognize the importance of link anchors in practical use of such systems, therefore the method is centered around link anchor selection and uses semantic similarity only to resolv...