This curriculum unit discusses the history of programing languages, emphasizing the newer fourth- and fifth-generation languages that are increasingly human-like in their intelligence. Fourth-generation languages and knowledge-based systems are discussed at length. (CH)

Describes research that investigated a method of automatically generating concept association maps that could be useful to abstractors. The use of word stems as concept surrogates, cooccurrence to define concept links, and a general-purpose graph-drawing algorithm is described; and results of evaluation of two link selection methods are reported.…

Three computational models that track patterns in semantic change over time are described. The models were used to investigate whether certain word properties (e.g., frequency of use, accessibility) and the relationships between them would be sufficient in themselves to produce some patterns of change. (15 references) (MSE)

This manual is designed to help researchers new to the work of transcription and coding bilingual data or for individuals who have done familiar work but have a new set of data waiting to be transcribed and coded. Describes step-by-step a way of carrying out the transcription and coding that provides many useful facilities and makes it possible to…

Clarifies the confusing terms "genre,""text type,""domain,""sublanguage," and "style" in an attempt to help individuals navigate the British National Corpus. (Author/VWL)

Responds to an earlier article that sought to clarify the terms "genre,""text type,""domain,""sublanguage," and "style" in an attempt to help individuals navigate the British National Corpus. (Author/VWL)

Theories of natural language syntax often characterize grammatical knowledge as a form of abstract computation. This paper argues that such a characterization is correct, and that fundamental properties of grammar can and should be understood in terms of restrictions on the complexity of possible grammatical computation, when defined in terms of…

Journal editorials allow readers to select the most deserving contributions in the literature and adopt approaches or procedures endorsed by an authority in the field; they act as gatekeepers to the community of practice and at the same time allow editors to connect directly with their readership. Following a number of studies on the structure and…

Numerous studies have affirmed the value of asynchronous online communication as a learning resource. Several investigations, however, have indicated that discussions in asynchronous environments are often neither interactive nor coherent. The research reported sought to develop an enhanced understanding of interactional coherence, argumentation,…

The work aims to improve the assessment of creative problem-solving in science education by employing language technologies and computational-statistical machine learning methods to grade students' natural language responses automatically. To evaluate constructs like creative problem-solving with validity, open-ended questions that elicit…

This paper deals with the issues of language planning and naming in Lithuania since the restoration of independence in 1990. The aim of the paper is to analyse the challenges of corpus planning with the focus on the use and standardisation of personal names. The paper first presents the historical context of the formation of names in Lithuania and…

Sensitivity to prosodic cues might be used to constrain lexical search. Indeed, the prosodic organization of speech is such that words are invariably aligned with phrasal prosodic edges, providing a cue to segmentation. In this paper we devise an experimental paradigm that allows us to investigate the interaction between statistical and prosodic…

A guide to the use of a computer program for discourse analysis is presented. The program, which derives root-words from other word forms, performs an automated, interactive analysis of words in their immediate context, using a previously developed dictionary program. The program is hierarchically menu-driven. The guide outlines the program's…

An automatic classification technique has been developed, based on the character structure of words. (Author)

This report summarizes the capabilities of five computer programs at Yale that do automatic natural language processing as of the end of 1976. For each program an introduction to its overall intent is given, followed by the input/output, a short discussion of the research underlying the program, and a prognosis for future development. The programs…