This paper introduces ISL, a language for representing and manipulating image schemas. ISL supports the representation of symbolic as well as quantitative dynamic properties of objects and relationships. We have encoded a number of the image schemas commonly covered in the cognitive linguistics literature and tested them in three domains: patterns in chess, tactics in military scenarios, and be...

Quantitative methods in syntax/ semantics research: A response to Sprouse and Almeida (2013) Edward Gibson a b , Steven T. Piantadosi c & Evelina Fedorenko a a Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA b Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA c Brain and Cognitive Sciences Depar...

But this journal content is of interest here for another reason than these scholarly ones. First, references to computing are conspicuous by their absence. Just occasionally, grammar types or semantic models appear that have computational connections, for example in a shared view of feature sets; and there are references to computational corpus analysis, though more often in reviews than in maj...

Research articles have received a wide interest in discourse studies particularly in genre analysis over the last few decades. A vast number of studies have been centered on identifying the organizational patterns of research articles in various fields. While Introduction section has enjoyed a lot of attention, very few studies have focused on rhetorical structure of qualitative and quantitativ...