We report an experiment in which subjects named 120 pictures, consisting of series of five pictures drawn from each of 24 semantic categories (and intermixed with 45 fillers). The number of intervening trials (lag) between successive presentations of members of the same category varied from two to eight. Subjects' naming latencies were slowed by…

This article presents an overview of current automatic sign recognition research. A review of recent studies, as well as on our own research, has identified several problem areas that hamper successful sign recognition by a computer. Some of these problems are shared with automatic speech recognition, whereas others seem to be unique to automatic…

Modern primary teachers must adapt literacy programmes and ensure efficient learning for all. They must also support children with language and literacy difficulties, children learning English as an additional language and possibly teach a modern foreign language. To do this effectively, they need to understand the applied linguistics research…

Implementation of a computer-based model for morphological analysis and synthesis of language, entitled P-KIMMO, is discussed. The model was implemented in Quintus Prolog on a Sun Workstation and exported to a Macintosh computer. This model has two levels of morphophonological representation, lexical and surface levels, associated by…

The frequency of liaison in French is studied in the context of the grammatical function of contiguous words involved, the phonetic characteristics of the liaison consonant and a number of paralinguistic variables such as sex, age, occupation, syllabic rate, loudness, attitude of the speaker and subject matter. Results are tabulated. Available…

Information science has in recent years developed an algorithmic procedure for content analysis of abstracts which includes setting up a metalanguage for a particular field of knowledge. Such a procedure may aid in solving problems of automatic text analysis in machine translation. (TL)

To conceptualize a reader's comprehension of text as a semantic and interpretive processing of information, it is necessary to take note of interactions among persons and texts and conditions under which the texts are to be comprehended. A Computer-Assisted Language Analysis System (CALAS) was constructed which focuses on the text as any…

Model building techniques from Artifical Intelligence and Information-Processing Psychology are applied to human-computer interface tasks to evaluate existing interfaces and suggest new and better ones. The model is in the form of an augmented transition network (ATN) grammar which is built by applying grammar induction heuristics on a sequential…

THE USE OF THE COMPUTER MAY BE ONE OF THE WAYS IN WHICH VARIED LINGUISTIC INTERESTS (SOCIOLINGUISTICS, PSYCHOLINGUISTICS) COME TO BE RENDERED INTERRELATED AND EVEN INTELLECTUALLY COHERENT. (THE CRITERION OF COHERENCE IS SET HERE AT MONISM AS TO MODELS.) ONE OF THE AUTHOR'S MAJOR INTERESTS IS A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY,…

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT WAS TO DEVISE AN ALGORITHM FOR A STEM RECOGNITION PROGRAM DESIGNED TO SEARCH FOR THE ROOT OF ANY HEBREW WORD AS WELL AS TO DETECT INNER CHANGES ON THE GIVEN ROOT. SUCH AN ALGORITHM COULD BE USED IN LIBRARY CATALOGING AND IN CREATING INDEXES AND CONCORDANCES OF TEXTS IN THE HEBREW LANGUAGE. IN THIS STUDY THE HEBREW…

THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE ORDERED DISTRIBUTION OF A GIVEN ITEM IN A TEXT. THE ELEMENT CONSIDERED MAY BE ANY DISCRETE ITEM OR SET OF ITEMS IN A TEXT, SUCH AS A PHONEME OR GROUP OF PHONEMES, A MORPHEME, SYNTACTIC CONSTRUCTION OR INTONATION PATTERN. THE AIM IS TO MEASURE NUMERICALLY HOW COMPACTLY (OR DIFFUSELY) THE ITEM IS DISTRIBUTED IN THE TEXT.…

This paper reports a portion of a research effort to develop a program which will simulate the language learning behavior of humans. Here presented is a heuristic parsing procedure which accepts natural language sentences and produces for each a form of analysis called a "labeled dependency tree." The formal grammar on which the…

This paper begins with a description of four generations of research in machine translation: the original efforts of 1957 to 1965 and three types of surviving and sometimes competing present projects. The three types of present projects include those relying on "brute force" methods involving larger and faster computers; those based on a…

An expectation based system, NGP, for parsing English noun groups into the Conceptual Dependency representation is described. The system is a part of English Language Interpreter (ELI) which is used as the front end to several natural language understanding systems and is capable of handling a wide range of sentences of considerable complexity.…

A study of relevance through comparison of texts judged by users is reported. The relevant set of documents for each information request was characterized by textual properties. The validity of procedures and interpretations is discussed. Consideration is given to possible mechanization of the process and its possible usefulness in development of…