The 28th Language Lunch Date: 2011-06-10 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Exploring Social Communication Skills in Children with ASD through Humour and Social Stories Aurora,Constantin; Informatics; A.Constantin-2@sms.ed.ac.uk Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) is a term coined to cover a group of neurodevelopmental disorders associated with noticeable impairments in three domains: social interaction (inability to develop age-appropriate relationships),Continue reading The 28th Language Lunch

The 27th Language Lunch Date: 2011-04-06 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Efficient CCG Parsing: A* versus Adaptive Supertagging Michael,Auli; ILCC; m.auli@sms.ed.ac.uk Naomi,Saphra; s1477768@sms.ed.ac.uk We present a systematic comparison and combination of two orthogonal techniques for efficient parsing of Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG). First we consider adaptive supertagging, a widely used approximate search technique that prunes mostContinue reading The 27th Language Lunch

The 26th Language Lunch Date: 2011-02-04 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Tracking Social Change through Sound Change Lauren,Hall-Lew; LEL; Lauren.Hall-Lew@ed.ac.uk English vowel production is undergoing a shift in California (Eckert 2008), and one of the most robust aspects of the shift is the merger between the vowels in LOT and THOUGHT (DeCamp 1953). While this ‘low-backContinue reading The 26th Language Lunch