meena alexander, a contemporary indian-american writer and a professor of english literature and women’s studies. the criticism of dr. alexander’s poetry and prose brings in many issues that draws upon poststructuralism and postcolonialism. to mention a few, the negotiation of fragmented identity, the problem of belonging, and the challenge of living in a female body are among her concerns. wha...

this study aimed at providing learners with an opportunity not only to bring together their core and disciplinary knowledge to acquire major skills of learning english as a foreign language (efl), and the intellectual challenge of these issues at the interface of media, language and religion, but also help the materials generators to produce suitable types of content to be delivered through the...

POND, a KL-ONE based knowledge representation language, provides the underlying structure for GATOR, a system used to gather requirements of telephony features. POND differs from a standard KL-ONE language by dividing knowledge into three levels: a Concept Level, an Instance Level, and a Model Level. The Concept and Instance Levels correspond, respectively, to KL-ONE's TBox and ABox. The Model ...

It is commonly agreed ihat natural language systems fox" semantically rich domains require a level of sema~tic representation in order to provide for a sufficiently deep processing of the natural language input. The level of semantic representation is sometimes called a representation of linguistic knowledge. In addition, a natural language help system also requires a lo~owledge base of the app...

The paper presents a computationally tractable application of Bulgarian pronouns representation using Universal Networking Language (UNL) formalism. It analyses grammar features of pronouns and offers a model of their formal representation based on incorporation of grammar, semantic and lexical knowledge by using standard UNL knowledge representation mechanisms. The entire application presents ...