Cross-language alignment between ontologies is relevant for the interoperability of systems in specific domains, such as in the life science domain. Although the literature has proposed techniques for the alignment of ontologies described in different languages, the influence of linguistic characteristics from domain-specific ontologies on such alignments has barely been appraised. This study p...

With the spread of large quantities of corpus data, the need has arisen to develop some standard not only for the format of'interchange of text (an issue which has already been taken up by the Text Encoding Inititiave), but also for any information added in some subsequent stage of (linguistic) enrichment. The research community has much to gain by such standardization since it will enable rese...

Patrick Juola Department of Experimental Psychology University of Oxford Oxford, UK OX1 3UD [email protected] Abstract The idea of \familial relationships" among languages is well-established and accepted, although some controversies persist in a few speci c instances. By painstakingly recording and identifying regularities and similarities and comparing these to the historical record,...

Although it is known that words acquire their meanings partly from the contexts in which they are used, we proposed that the way in which words are processed can also influence their representation. We further propose that individual differences in the way that words are processed can consequently lead to individual differences in the way that they are represented. Specifically, we showed that ...

Speakers who live in an L2 environment for an extended period of time often experience change in the way in which they use their L1, a process referred to as L1 attrition. This article provides an overview of language attrition phenomena at various linguistic levels. However, attrition cannot be trivially or linearly related to factors such as the frequency of use of the L1. It is argued here t...

The goal of this chapter is to present some of the interesting and important aspects of cross-linguistic comparisons which can be made between the acquisition of Japanese and of English. We d o not attempt an exhaustive review of the literature (see, for example, Clancy, in press; Iwata, 1979; Murata , 1968, 1972; Sato, 1978 for reviews of the Japanese literature). We focus instead first on the...