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Pavol Černý, Edmund M. Clarke, Thomas A. Henzinger, Arjun Radhakrishna + 3 more
We present a computer-aided programming approach to concurrency. The approach allows programmers to program assuming a friendly, non-preemptive scheduler, and our synthesis procedure inserts synchronization to ensure that the final program works even with a preemptive scheduler. The correctness specification is…
Vsevolod Kapatsinski
How do speakers produce novel words? This programmatic paper synthesizes research in linguistics and neuroscience to argue for a parallel distributed architecture of the language system, in which distributed semantic representations activate competing form chunks in parallel. This process accounts for both the…
Rob Patro, Siddhant Bharti, Prajwal Singhania, Rakrish Dhakal + 2 more
The FASTQ file format is the lingua franca of primary data distribution and processing across most of bioinformatics. Over time, the compression, storage, transmission, and decompression of gzip compressed fastq.gz files has become a substantial scalability bottleneck in the modern world of fast and massively parallel…
Neil Cohn, Joost Schilperoord
Language is typically embedded in multimodal communication, yet models of linguistic competence do not often incorporate this complexity. Meanwhile, speech, gesture, and/or pictures are each considered as indivisible components of multimodal messages. Here, we argue that multimodality should not be characterized by…
Pavo Orepic, Wilson Truccolo, Sydney S. Cash, Anne-Lise Giraud + 1 more
Traditional models of speech perception posit that neural activity sequentially encodes speech through a hierarchy of cognitive processes, from early representations of acoustic and phonetic features to late semantic encoding. Yet the mechanisms by which neural representations are transformed across the speech…
Rasha Omar, Mostafa Abbas, Ahmed El-Mahdy, Erven Rohou + 1 more
'Rafael Sachetto Oliveira'] With the widespread of multicore systems, automatic parallelization becomes more pronounced, particularly for legacy programs, where the source code is not generally available. An essential operation in any parallelization system is detecting data dependence among parallelization candidate…
Amie Fairs, Amandine Michelas, Sophie Dufour, Kristof Strijkers
The temporal dynamics by which linguistic information becomes available is one of the key properties to understand how language is organised in the brain. An unresolved debate between different brain language models is whether words, the building blocks of language, are activated in a sequential or parallel manner. In…
Maria L. Dalla Chiara, Roberto Giuntini, Roberto Leporini, Eleonora Negri + 1 more
'Eleonora Negri' 'Giuseppe Sergioli'] Parallelism represents an essential aspect of human mind/brain activities. One can recognize some common features between psychological parallelism and the characteristic parallel structures that arise in quantum theory and in quantum computation. The article is devoted to a…
Ryan M.C. Law, Matthew A. Lambon Ralph, Olaf Hauk
How the brain constructs meaning from individual words and phrases is a fundamental question for research in semantic cognition, language and their disorders. These two aspects of meaning are traditionally studied separately, resulting in two large, multi-method literatures, which we sought to bring together in this…
Carlo Y. Meloni, Chundra A. Cathcart, Erik J. Ringen, Jessica K. Ivani + 1 more
We examine the syntax-semantics interface in clause linkage using a cross-linguistic sample of nearly 700 constructions from Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Tupí-Guaraní. To evaluate predictions from the Interclausal Relations Hierarchy, we model the phylogenetic dynamics of how semantic relations influence the degree…
Ryan Law, Liina Pylkkänen
In the neurobiology of language, a fundamental challenge is deconfounding syntax from semantics. Changes in syntactic structure usually correlate with changes in meaning. We approached this challenge from a new angle. We deployed word lists, which are usually the unstructured control in studies of syntax, as both the…