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FOAL
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
De-constructing and re-constructing aspect-orientation
Through its decade-and-a-half long evolution, the aspectoriented software community has occasionally struggled with its identity
William Harrison
COGSCI
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition: A Probabilistic Perspective
Natural language is full of patterns that appear to fit with general linguistic rules but are ungrammatical. There has been much debate over how children acquire these ‘‘ling...
Anne S. Hsu, Nick Chater
ECAL
2003
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Learning Biases for the Evolution of Linguistic Structure: An Associative Network Model
Abstract. Structural hallmarks of language can be explained in terms of adaptation, by language, to pressures arising during its cultural transmission. Here I present a model which...
Kenny Smith
AAAI
2007
14 years 12 months ago
Comprehending and Generating Apt Metaphors: A Web-driven, Case-based Approach to Figurative Language
Examples of figurative language can range from the explicit and the obvious to the implicit and downright enigmatic. Some simpler forms, like simile, often wear their meanings on...
Tony Veale, Yanfen Hao
AAAI
2006
14 years 11 months ago
Societal Grounding Is Essential to Meaningful Language Use
Language engineers often point to tight connections between their systems' linguistic representations and accumulated sensor data as a sign that their systems really mean wha...
David DeVault, Iris Oved, Matthew Stone