objectives: speech and language development is one of the main aspects of evolution in humans and is one of the most complex brain functions such that it is referred to as one of the highest cortical functions such as thinking, reading and writing. speech and language disorders are considered as a major public health problem because they cause many secondary complications in the childhood and a...

This paper d i s c u s s e s the problem of p r o v i d i n g n a t u r a l l anguage access to textual material. We are developing a system that r e l a t e s a r e q u e s t i n E n g l i s h to s p e c i f i c p a s s a g e s i n a document on the b a s i s of co r respondences between the l o g i c a l r e p r e s e n t a t i o n s of the i n f o r m a t i o n i n the r e q u e s t and i n ...

Privacy in the digital world is a critical problem which is becoming even more imperious with the growth of the Internet, accompanied by the proliferation of e-services (e.g. ecommerce, e-health). One research track for efficient privacy management is to make use of user’s and service provider’s (SP) privacy policies, and to perform an automatic comparison in between to help any (skilled or uns...

1 Department of Linguistics, Stanford University Stanford, California, U.S.A. [email protected] 2 Institute for Natural Language Processing, University of Stuttgart Stuttgart, Germany [email protected] 3 Office of the CTO, SAP Labs Palo Alto, California, U.S.A. [email protected] †now at Infosys 4 Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International Menlo Park, California, U.S.A wald...

The purpose of this chapter is to examine how language barriers contribute to health disparities among ethnic and racial minorities in the United States. A literature search was systematically conducted using selected computer databases (MEDLINE and CINAHL). Searches were limited to English-language-published research in the years from 1985 to 2003. A total of 47 published articles were include...

We examined how words from bilingual toddlers' second language (L2) primed recognition of related target words in their first language (L1). On critical trials, prime-target word pairs were either (a) phonologically related, with L2 primes overlapped phonologically with L1 target words [e.g., slide (L2 prime)-Kleid (L1 target, "dress")], or (b) phonologically related through translation, with L...

The YPA is a directory enquiry system that allows a user to access addresses and other advertiser information in a classified directory. BT’s Yellow Pages provide an example of a classified directory with which this work would be useful.

Data b a s e s a c c e s s i s t y p i c a l l y approached as a prog~anmi n g problem r a t h e r t han a u s e r i n t e r f a c e problem. Wez. conseq e n t l y see s i t u a t i o n s where on ly programmers can a c c e s s i n f o r m a t i o n i n d a t a b a s e s , i n s p i t e o f the f a c t t h a t t h e peop le who need t h i s i n f o r m a t i o n a re t y p i c a l l y n o n p r...

This paper reports on the ESPRIT project MELISSA (Methods and Tools for NaturalLanguage Interfacing with Standard Software Applications)1. MELISSA aims at developing the technology and tools enabling end users to interface with computer applications, using natural-language (NL), and to obtain a precompetitive product validated in selected enduser applications. This paper gives an overview of th...