I. Authorship Attribution Paradigm Historians, literary scholars, psychologists, and – more recently – computational linguists have long sought a reliable methodology for analyzing texts to determine the identity of their author. Since at least the late nineteenth century (see Mendenhall, 1887; Mascol, 1888a/b), one tool used in the investigation of authorship has been the extraction of statist...

In this article, we present and evaluate a method for training a statistical partof-speech tagger on data from written language and then adapting it to the requirements of tagging a corpus of transcribed spoken language, in our case spoken Swedish. This is currently a significant problem for many research groups working with spoken language, since the availability of tagged training data from s...

Whether we like it or not, those of us who deal with so called, 'non"verbal' materials are faced at the outset with major problems of translation, transcription, and transliteration; that of a space/time system, whether is it a dance, a rite, a ceremony, a system of greetings or what you wiil, into spoken and more accurately, into written language. We aTe all well aware that space! time systems...

BACKGROUND Pharmaceutical communication is an essential component of pharmaceutical health care, optimally ensuring patients understand the proper administration and side effects of their medications. Communication can often be complicated by language and culture, but with pharmaceuticals, misunderstandings can prove particularly harmful. In Nunavut, to ensure the preservation and revitalizatio...

In an event related potential (ERP) experiment using written language materials only, we investigated a potential modulation of the N400 by the modality switch effect. The modality switch effect occurs when a first sentence, describing a fact grounded in one modality, is followed by a second sentence describing a second fact grounded in a different modality. For example, "A cellar is dark" (vis...

The final evaluation of the information extraction portion of phase one of the ARPA Tipster Text program was conducted in July, 1993. Participants in this evaluation included not only the Tipster-supported information extraction contractors but thirteen other sites as well. This evaluation was the topic of the Fifth Message Understanding Conference (MUC-5), which was held in August, 1993, and c...

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...

We conducted an Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) meta-analysis to identify brain regions that are recruited by linguistic stimuli requiring relatively demanding semantic or syntactic processing. We included 54 functional MRI studies that explicitly varied the semantic or syntactic processing load, while holding constant demands on earlier stages of processing. We included studies that int...