Recently, there has been an increased need for sign language interpreting for individuals with hearing disabilities. However, health problems among sign language interpreters (hereafter,“interpreters”)have become a serious problem (DeCaro, Feuerstein & Hurwitz, 1992, Feuerstein & Fitzgerd, 1992, Peper & Gibney, 1999, Stedt, 1992). DeCaro et al. (1992) examined interpreters working at educationa...

The Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment (EIPA) is as an important research tool for examining the quality of interpreters who use American Sign Language or a sign system in classroom settings, but it is not currently applicable to educational interpreters who use Cued Speech (CS). In order to determine the feasibility of extending the EIPA to include CS, a pilot EIPA test was develop...

Many guest languages are implemented using the Java Virtual Machine as a host environment. There are two major implementation choices: custom compilers and so-called hosted interpreters. Custom compilers are complex to build but offer good performance. Hosted interpreters are comparatively simpler to implement but until now have suffered from poor performance. We studied the performance of host...

We propose the neural programmer-interpreter (NPI): a recurrent and composi-tional neural network that learns to represent and execute programs. NPI has three learnable components: a task-agnostic recurrent core, a persistent key-value program memory, and domain-specific encoders that enable a single NPI to operate in multiple perceptually diverse environments with distinct affordances. By lear...

We show how to construct in a pure, lazy functional language Haskell a low-level, FORTH-like (stack based, postfix style) virtual machine, used as a target platform in our compilation course for computer science students. The implementation is clear, reasonably efficient, and easily extensible. Two models are presented: more “classical”, with a separate return stack, and an interpreter based on...

Abstract Manual co-speech gestures can facilitate language comprehension, but do they influence comprehension in simultaneous interpreters, and if so, is this modulated by interpreting (SI) and/or experience? In a picture-matching task, 24 professional interpreters translators were exposed to utterances accompanied semantically matching representational gestures, unrelated pragmatic or no while...

Tcl is not thread-safe. If two or more threads attempt to use Tcl at the same time, internal data structures can be corrupted and the program can crash. This is true even if the threads are using separate Tcl interpreters. PtTcl is a modi cation to the Tcl core that makes Tcl safe to use with POSIX threads. With PtTcl, each thread can create and use its own Tcl interpreters that will not interf...

A novel approach to the veriication of meta-interpreters is introduced. We apply a general purpose veriication method for logic programs, proposed in 28], to the case study of the Vanilla and other logic meta-interpreters. We extend the standard notion of declarative correctness, and design a criterion for proving correctness of meta-interpreters in a general sense, including amalgamated and re...

This study aimed to explore non-verbal executive processes in simultaneous interpreters. Simultaneous interpreters, bilinguals without any training in simultaneous interpreting, and control monolinguals performed the Wisconsin card sorting task (WCST; Experiment 1) and the Simon task (Experiment 2). Performance on WCST was thought to index cognitive flexibility while Simon task performance was ...

ions and context dissemination Early context middleware perceived the tasks of disseminating contextual information and providing appropriate abstractions for programmers to deal with that information as primary goals of a context infrastructure. The Context Toolkit The Context Toolkit [DE00] builds a framework for interfacing with devices and software entities which provide contextual informat...