Linguists, including computational linguists, have always been fond of talking about trees. In this paper, we outline a theory of linguistic structure which talks about talking about trees; we call this theory Description theory (D-theory). While important issues must be resolved before a complete picture of D-theory emerges (and also before we can build programs which utilize it), we believe t...

This paper describes a group interview technique designed to support lightweight process assessments while promoting at the same time collaboration among assessment participants. The method was successfully used in one consulting assignment were it got previously discording participants, talking to each other and agreeing on the issues. The technique borrows from agile software development the ...

silence is one of the most important elements in mystical theology, generally, and in negative theology, particularly. silence is the last stage to which the mystic or the mystical theologian reaches in talking of god. in this stage, all the linguistic methods of the mystic disappear. in this paper, firstly, we will discuss the central role of the silence in the rumi’s works. then we will argue...

This study deals with the effect of using controlled Buzz Group technique and Talking Chips on students’ speaking ability. The objectives are to find out ability which is most effective one. method that was used in this research quantitative through quasi-experimental incriminating three classes were experimental class 1, 2 control class, writer applied while without treatment. population eleve...

This article presents the first version of a talking head, called MOTHER (MOrphable Talking Head for Enhanced Reality), based on an articulatory model describing the degrees-offreedom of visible (lips, cheeks...) but also partially or indirectly visible (jaw, tongue...) speech articulators. Skin details are rendered using texture mapping/blending techniques. We illustrate here the flexibility o...

This paper presents the results of a study comparing the use of auditory icons, earcons and speech in an audio only interface for a digital talking book player. The different techniques were evaluated according to the identification errors made, and subjective measures of understandability, intrusiveness and pleasurability. Results suggest the use of auditory icons combined with speech whenever...

Our aim in this note is to make some conjectures about extremal densities of daisy-free families, where a ‘daisy’ is a certain hypergraph. These questions turn out to be related to some Turán problems in the hypercube, but they are also natural in their own right. We start by giving the daisy conjectures, and some related problems, and shall then go on to describe the connection with vertex-Tur...

The CoNLL-2015 shared task focuses on shallow discourse parsing, which takes a piece of newswire text as input and returns the discourse relations in a PDTB style. In this paper, we describe our discourse parser that participated in the shared task. We use 9 components to construct the whole parser to identify discourse connectives, label arguments and classify the sense of Explicit or Non-Expl...