BACKGROUND A study of linguistic and narrative variables in oral and written language disorder. AIM To characterize the linguistic and narrative productivity, oral and written productions, of scholars with oral and written language disorder. METHOD Oral and written narrative productions of 30 scholars from public schools (male and female aged 7 to 13 years) were compared. These individuals ...

We present a work in progress on machine learning of affect in human verbal communications. We identify semantic verb categories that capture essential properties when human communication combines spoken and written language properties. Information Extraction methods then are used to construct verb-based features that represent texts in machine learning experiments. Our empirical results show t...

Ifirst really saw the stars when I was 10 years old and on my first camping trip, in Ontario. I remember awakening late one night, stepping outside the tent, and looking up. I was completely stunned by what I saw. Stars—millions of them it seemed—filled the entire sky. I had never imagined that there was such a vast expanse beyond Earth. Some critical aspects of my childhood clearly contributed...