The vulnerability of time reference, either marked by means of verbal morphology or by adverbs, has been established in an extensive array of languages in agrammatic aphasia. Recent studies (Bastiaanse, 2008; Lee et al., 2008; Nanousi et al., 2006; Martínez-Ferreiro, 2010; Yarbay Duman and Bastiaanse, 2009; among others) have determined that far from being general, the observed deficit is sensi...

This paper presents a model for solving a resource allocation problem (the ‘Screaming Generals’ problem) in which autonomous agents negotiate for use of the resources. The Screaming Generals problem is a test-bed for our ideas about task completion in a multi-agent environment with hard deadlines. Rather than analyze some specific negotiation scheme, we present a model that accepts the results ...

Objective: Many studies have suggested that there is a relationship between coherence and cognitive processes. This study aims at investigating this hypothesis through assessing the relationship between cognitive variables and coherence in the discourse of two groups of Persian-speaking younger and older adults. Methods: In order to evaluate our participants' cognitive capabilities, we recrui...

Spoken language comprehension, including comprehension for inferential material in narrative discourse, is diminished in dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT). There are, however, no empirical data concerning comprehension by adults with DAT of main ideas versus details in narratives. Evidence from other groups with and without brain damage has shown that comprehension for main ideas is relative...

This paper presents solutions to Density Classification Task (DCT) using a variant of Cellular Automata (CA) called Programmable Cellular Automata (PCA). The translation property as well as the density preserving property of fundamental CA rules in 1D and 2D, and the advantage of PCA are embedded together to obtain the DCT solution. The advantage of PCA over standard CA is reported. A general 2...

The CL Research system for SemEval-2 Task 10 for linking events and their participants in discourse is an exploration of the use of a specially created FrameNet dictionary that captures all FrameNet information about frames, lexical units, and frame-to-frame relations. This system is embedded in a specially designed interface, the Linguistic Task Analyzer. The implementation of this system was ...

En este estudio cualitativo, se analiza el uso de las formas tratamiento ‘tú’ y ‘usted’ en español peninsular peticiones estudiantes hacia sus profesores. Se utiliza corpus COPINE (Corpus Oral Peticiones Interacciones Naturalizadas Español), que compone interacciones naturalizadas (siguiendo la metodología Tran, 2006), Discourse Completion Tests (DCT) escritos, un cuestionario líne...

En las interacciones verbales, los hablantes utilizan diferentes formas de tratamiento para dirigirse a sus interlocutores. este artículo se describen que una población universitaria relacionadas con el acto habla cumplidos. Para la recolección información, aplicaron dos cuestionarios hábitos sociales (discourse completion test, DCT) estudiantes, empleados y profesores universidad pública en Me...