In order to develop computer competence, users need to understand principles of its operation in addition to memorizing where a particular operation is located in menus. Understanding a principle ease transfer of learning, hence the understanding helps learning a new application. These principles, e.g. functional dependency, are based in computer science, and are thereby precise and general. Tw...

Context: The dependencies between individual requirements have an important influence on software engineering activities e.g., project planning, architecture design, and change impact analysis. Although dozens of requirement dependency types were suggested in the literature from different points of interest, there still lacks an evaluation of the applicability of these dependency types in requi...

Children are known to have problems in understanding Wh-movement constructions in which the object moves across an overt subject (as is the case in object-relatives, Wh-object questions, and topicalization). To test whether crossing dependencies are also problematic when no Wh-movement is involved and whether dependencies in which the subject crosses an object are also difficult, we test a cons...

Achieving a greater understanding of natural language syntax and parsing is a critical step in producing useful natural language processing systems. In this thesis, we focus on the formalism of dependency grammar as it allows one to model important headmodifier relationships with a minimum of extraneous structure. Recent research in dependency parsing has highlighted the discriminative structur...

Gene-Gene dependency plays a very important role in system biology as it pertains to the crucial understanding of different biological mechanisms. Time-course microarray data provides a new platform useful to reveal the dynamic mechanism of gene-gene dependencies. Existing interaction measures are mostly based on association measures, such as Pearson or Spearman correlations. However, it is wel...

Annotated corpus is a linguistic resource which explicitly encodes the information at syntactic and semantic levels for each sentence. Annotated corpora play a crucial role in many applications of natural language processing (NLP). Error free and consistent annotated corpora is vital for these applications. Creating annotated corpora is an expensive and time consuming process. Errors or anomali...