Interrogative suggestibility refers to the tendency of individuals to accept suggestive information in an interrogative context. Gudjonsson and Clark (1986) have developed a theoretical model of suggestibility, and contend that suggestibility is mediated by an individual's cognitive abilities, mental state and personality characteristics. In particular, they emphasize the role of coping strateg...

This research project is about reengineering object-oriented applications. Reengineering such applications inherits complex problems related to software maintenance, i.e., program understanding, program analysis, and program transformation and adds to them (1) the complexity introduced by late binding, dynamic typing, and incremental definition specific to object-oriented programming, and (2) t...

Compared to the prosody study in statement-like sentence, little research has been conducted in interrogative sentence, which will definitely improve the naturalness of spoken dialog system. This paper proposes a computational model to assign stress in interrogative sentences using linguistic knowledge. We firstly investigate the interrogative sentences perceptually to label their stress locati...

Korean has so-called indeterminate words (cf. Kuroda 1965) that can be used as either interrogatives or indefinites depending on the context. For instance, the indeterminate word nwukwu is ambiguous between an interrogative reading ‘who’ and an indefinite reading ‘someone’. Thus the sentence in (1) has three different interpretations: i) an assertion with an indefinite, ii) a yes-no question wi...

A relevant and functional ontology continues to be one of the bottlenecks to the process of building epistemic agent-oriented systems. While the construction of electronic ontologies is the focus of many ongoing efforts, ontology building in a timely manner remains an obstacle. Our current focus is directed toward the notion of automated identification of ontological artifacts from interrogativ...

this research explores the effects of three computer-mediated feedback modalities, that is, elicitation, recast, and meta-linguistics, on the learning of english participial, gerund, and infinitival phrases among iranian intermediate-level efl learners. the overriding focus of the present study was to investigate whether different types of feedback given through form-focused computer-human exch...