We present a tiered-approach to the recognition of metaphor. The first tier is made up of highly precise expert-driven lexico-syntactic patterns which are automatically expended on in the second tier using lexical and dependency transformations. The final tier utilizes an SVM classifier using a variety of syntactic, semantic, and psycholinguistic features to determine if an expression is metaph...

Resumen. El uso de glosarios en el proceso de elicitación de requisitos se ha difundido tanto entre los desarrolladores como entre los investigadores en el campo de la Ingeniería de Requisitos. Por otro lado, se ha comprobado que las actividades posteriores, luego de construido el glosario, pueden apoyarse en el mismo para facilitar el logro de su cometido. El presente artículo propone una heur...

We present the results of correlation analyses for identifying temporally correlated activations between multiple regions of interest. We focused on functional connectivity for two regions in the prefrontal cortex: the left inferior frontal gyrus (L. F3t/F3O) and the left precentral sulcus (L. PrCS). Temporal correlations of functional magnetic resonance imaging signals were separately examined...

Three experiments investigated semantic and syntactic effects in the production of phrases in Dutch. Bilingual participants were presented with English nouns and were asked to produce an adjective + noun phrase in Dutch including the translation of the noun. In 2 experiments, the authors blocked items by either semantic category or grammatical gender. Participants performed the task slower when...

A major challenge in Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS) is the detection of problematic communication (hotspots), as well as the classification of these hotspots into different types (root cause analysis). In this work, we focus on two classes of root cause, namely, erroneous speech recognition vs. other (e.g., dialogue strategy). Specifically, we propose an automatic algorithm for detecting hotspot...

Finding out which lexico-semantic features of cognates are critical in cross-language studies and comparing these features with noncognates helps researchers to decide which features to control in studies with cognates. Normative databases provide necessary information for this purpose. Such resources are lacking in the Persian language. We created a dataset and determined norms for the essenti...

The Tactical Language Training System (TLTS) is a speech-enabled computer learning environment designed to teach Arabic spoken communication to American English speakers (and is described in a companion paper(Johnson et al, 2004)). This paper elaborates upon the modeling and detection of learner speech errors along multiple levels of linguistic details ranging from segmental to lexico-semantic ...