The role of neuronal oscillations during language comprehension is not yet well understood. In this paper we review and reinterpret the functional roles of beta- and gamma-band oscillatory activity during language comprehension at the sentence and discourse level. We discuss the evidence in favor of a role for beta and gamma in unification (the unification hypothesis), and in light of mounting ...

Significant portions of software life cycle resources are devoted to program maintenance, which motivates the development of automated techniques and tools to support the tedious, error-prone tasks. Natural language clues from programmers’ naming in literals, identifiers, and comments can be leveraged to improve the effectiveness of many software tools. For example, they can be used to increase...

LARRI (Language-based Agent for Retrieval of Repair Information) is a dialog-based system for support of maintenance and repair domains, characterized by large amounts of documentation and by procedural information. LARRI is based on an architecture developed by Carnegie Mellon University for the DARPA Communicator program and is integrated with a wearable computer system developed by the Weara...

Language contraction is shaped by the unequal distribution of power and resources, both between the language community and the dominant society, and within the contracting language community itself. Gender is connected to other social divisions and inequalities, rendering it central to processes of maintenance and loss. For indigenous groups struggling for recognition and rights, public acknowl...

In consequence of changing requirements and technological progress, software languages are subject to change. The changes affect the language’s specification, which in turn affects language processors as well as existing language utterances. Unfortunately, little is known about how software languages evolve in practice. This paper presents a case study on the evolution of four modeling language...

A large industrial process, software maintenance, has been modelled by using the process modelling language SOCCA. The paper reports about the experiences with this trial. In particular, feasibility, expressiveness, quality, and the overall benefits of a formal SOCCA model are discussed and compared to the formerly existing informal process description. In order to illustrate the results, a wel...

So-called little, or domain-specific languages (DSLs), have the potential to make software maintenance simpler: domain-experts can directly use the DSL to make required routine modifications. At the negative side, however, more substantial changes may become more difficult: such changes may involve altering the domain-specific language. This will require compiler technology knowledge, which not...

This paper presented a methodology to determine a maintainability index based on assembly criteria. Typically time is the major parameter or indicator being used measuring the maintainability, but less works are focus on details components assembly and assembly criteria. In the previous works, a customer survey and study on effect of operator skills have been conducted. In this study, by using ...

In traditional rear trunk lid designs, extra devices (e.g., hydraulic actuators and spring mechanisms) are employed to compensate the lid weight and reduce the efforts for both opening and closing it. Such devices often consist of a number of parts, thus leading to high costs for manufacture, assembly and maintenance. In this paper, we designed a compliant bistable mechanism to keep the lid’s t...