This paper describes the use of web based and freeware tools for a cross-discipline research consortium to support graduate education. The use of WordPress and Simple Machine Forums as the main environment to provide web support is discussed, as are the use of statistics tools such as R and SAS-JMP. Usage data for these tools are provided.

Acceptance, accessibility, and usability data from a series of studies of a series of applications suggest that most users readily accept responsive virtual characters as valid conversational partners. By responsive virtual characters we mean full-body animated, conversant, realistic characters with whom the user interacts via natural language and who exhibit emotional, social, gestural, and co...

‘Meaning is use’ represents an approach to the functional or semantic dimension of linguistic communication. It originated with Wittgenstein (1953) and other pragmatically based philosophers of language, who wanted to combat the idea that meanings are things and instead focus on howpeople use linguistic conventions to achieve social ends. ‘Structure emerges from use’ represents an approach to t...

causal prepositions по and из-зa in russian language are used for theexpression of undesirable or inconvenient facts and conditions and carrynegative charge and connotation. however, their usage requires differentgrammatical structures. moreover, they are used with different nouns.therefore, the sublties invovlved in some similar cases of the usage of theseprepositions for the expression of cau...

Although communicative language teaching (CLT) was thought to have revolutionized classroom practice, there are “weak” and “strong” versions (Howatt, 1984). Most foreign classrooms in the world still favor weak with structure-based (SB) views on (Lightbown & Spada, 2013), practice Netherlands is not much different (West Verspoor, 2016). However, a small group of teachers started French as s...

From a natural language corpus, word usage data over time can be extracted. To detect and quantify change in this data, automatic procedures can be employed. In this work, I describe the application of ordinary and robust regression methods to time series extracted from natural language corpora.