This paper describes an improvement in the performance of Transfer-Driven Machine Translation ( T D M T ) by the use of extralinguistic information. In evaluating what constitutes natural speech, particular attention was paid to word usage that depended on the extra-linguistic information from the context, situation, environment and so on. We discuss what types of extra-linguistic information a...

Thorough investigation of early syntactic knowledge necessitates methodologies that tap young children's linguistic competence while minimizing extra-linguistic demands and not relying on production. The preferential looking paradigm is uniquely suited to such a task. We present here a test case for the exploration of early syntactic knowledge in young children: Principle C effects at 30 months...

The objectives of this paper are twofold, whereby the computer p r o g r a m i s meant to be a particular implementation of a general natural Language [NL] p r o e e s s i n ~ s y s t e m [NI,PSI w h i c h could be used for different domains. The first obiective is to provide a theory for processing temporal information contained i n a well-structured, technical text. The second obiective is to...