Inference is an important strategy that could be applied in listening activities. It could help one to grasp the meanings of an oral message by analysing textual and contextual information. When the listener has difficulties in activities because of his poor linguistic skills, it is strongly recommended that he apply the inference strategy efficiently. But how and to what degree does this strat...

In this demonstration we showcase PIKES, a Semantic Role Labeling (SRL)-powered approach for Knowledge Extraction. PIKES implements a rule-based strategy that reinterprets SRL output in light of other linguistic analyses, such as dependency parsing and co-reference resolution, thus properly capturing and formalizing in RDF important linguistic aspects such as argument nominalization, frame-fram...

Useful automatized translation must be considered in a problem-solving setting, composed of a linguistic environment and a computer environment. We examine the facets of the problem which we believe to be essential, and try to give some paradigms along each of them. Those facets are the linguistic strategy, the programming tools, the treatment of semantics, the computer environment and the type...

The linguistic conformance and the ontological conformance between models and metamodels are two different aspects that are frequently mixed. This specifically occurs in the EMF framework resulting in problems such as the incapability to load and modify metamodels at runtime. In this paper we present a strategy to solve this problem by separating the ontological and the linguistic aspects of a ...

The present paper explores cross-cultural variation in spatial cognition by comparing spatial reconstruction tasks by Dutch and Namibian elementary school children. These two communities differ in the way they predominantly express spatial relations in language. Four experiments investigate cognitive strategy preferences across different levels of task-complexity and instruction. Data show a co...

This paper proposes an efficient linguistic processing strategy for speech recognition and understanding using a dependency structure grammar. The strategy includes parsing and phrase prediction algorithms. After speech processing and phrase recognition based on phoneme recognition, the parser extracts the sentence with the best likelihood taking account of the phonetic likelihood of phrase can...

Quality function deployment (QFD) is a customer-driven quality management and product development system for achieving higher customer satisfaction. The QFD process involves various inputs in the form of linguistic data, e.g., human perception, judgment, and evaluation on importance or relationship strength. Such data are usually ambiguous and uncertain. An aim of this paper is to examine the i...