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Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech provides children who are deaf or hard of hearing with the listening and spoken language skills they need to succeed.
With locations in Northampton and Boston, Massachusetts; New York City, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Jacksonville, Florida, Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech serves more than 1,200 children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families annually. As a regional resource, Clarke serves children from throughout Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York City and the New York exurbs, southeast Philadelphia, southern New Jersey, southeast Georgia and north Florida. Clarke's Mainstream Services works with children who are deaf or hard of hearing learning in schools in the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic. In 2015, Clarke began offering early intervention services to children regardless of where they live as part of a teleservices program called telepractice – Virtual Intervention Services for Infants and Toddlers who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (tVISIT).
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Hugh Babowal
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45 Round Hill Rd.
Northampton, MA 01060 USA
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Specialized Education Institutions/Schools for Visually or Hearing Impaired, Learning Disabled (B28)
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Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech provides children who are deaf or hard of hearing with the listening and spoken language skills they need to succeed.
Since its founding in 1867, Clarke has been an international leader among schools teaching deaf children to speak. For over a century, we operated as a traditional school for the deaf; students lived on campus from an early age until well into adolescence because it took that long to prepare them to be mainstreamed into public schools. Today is a vastly different story. During the last 20 years, revolutionary hearing technologies, newborn hearing screening, and early intervention services have created new possibilities for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. More than 60% of the children we now serve are under the age of six. Our goal is for them to successfully transition into their neighborhood public schools by kindergarten with listening, spoken language, and school-readiness skills comparable to those of peers with typical hearing.
Clarke provides the full-spectrum of intensive Listening and Spoken Language (LSL) programs needed to help a child develop the listening, learning, and spoken language skills needed to succeed in mainstream schools. Clarke's family-focused programs meet the needs of the whole child – socially, academically, and psychologically – fostering independence and creativity. Clarke children and their families benefit from a variety of clinical services that include pre-implant training and post cochlear implant habilitation for children receiving implants, evaluations, comprehensive speech and language assessments, and pediatric speech and language therapy.
As a result of the amazing advances and new possibilities for children who are deaf or hard of hearing, Clarke is reinventing itself for a new era. We are developing new service and business models to better meet the changing needs of deaf children and their families, and we are effectively and innovatively serving more children, families, and schools in more ways than ever before. In addition to annually providing services to infants, children and their families through five locations (Northampton and Boston, MA; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Jacksonville, FL) Clarke provides an array of services for public schools; audiological services for people of all ages; trainings and conferences for professionals and families; international consulting and support services; and a Masters of Education of the Deaf degree in collaboration with Fontbonne University.
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What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Program 1
Early Intervention (EI)
Early intervention (EI): Clarke's skilled Early Intervention professionals can enhance the abilities of parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing to build their child's early listening and spoken language skills, during the most fundamental period of his or her development. The earlier a child with hearing loss receives access to sound (hearing aids/cochlear implants) and intensive services, the more opportunities the child will have to build language centers. With intensive EI services provided by Clarke's certified teachers of the deaf and speech-language pathologists, at our location or in the family's home, parents and caregivers learn how to support their child so that s/he can develop the spoken language, cognitive, social and emotional skills needed for a lifetime of success.
Program long term success
As more families learn what the LSL makes possible for children born deaf today, the demand grows and as a result, Clarke's EI enrollment has more than doubled in the last three years. Our geographic impact has expanded as well, as Clarke reaches families beyond commuting distance through tVISIT. Over the course of the last year, Clarke has secured a three-year grant from a private funder to provide EI using telepractice in Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania. Clarke's tVISIT project was successfully launched in New England three years ago. Early outcomes have shown that tVISITs provide a three-fold benefit: they are less costly than face-to-face visits; they eliminate travel time and expenses for our staff; and they create an environment in which the parent or family member (rather than the EI professional) directly leads the child through the EI session with strong encouragement and coaching from the EI provider – which is widely recognized as the best practice in our field. In addition, preliminary data reveals that an average of 90.5 minutes and 69.6 miles are saved in travel per session (University of Massachusetts-Donahue Institute). Hundreds of professionals from throughout the U.S. and beyond have participated in webinars associated with TVISIT. With the support of a private foundation, Clarke is also using Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA), an innovative technology to help parents optimize children's language learning environments. By analyzing LENA data, practitioners will be able to customize intervention more effectively and help families identify new ways to engage with their children and optimize their language learning environments. As part this project, Clarke is working to increase the percentage of children who are deaf or hard of hearing who are kindergarten ready and are able to read at/above grade level. The project also seeks to build quantitative data supporting telepractice and to develop best practices in family coaching.
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The progress of each child is regularly monitored in accordance with Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP), a Federally-required plan for children ages birth to three who have a disability, which is specifically developed for each child. Feedback is frequent, so Clarke professionals and families can work together to determine the educational and support services needed to best meet each child's individual needs. Through a battery of assessment tests, feedback, reviews, and meetings Clarke professionals are able to help families provide their young child with the techniques and information necessary to replicate a language-rich home setting and encourage the development of listening and spoken language skills.
Program success examples
What fully illustrates the transformative impact of Clarke's programs are the personal stories of the children we serve – like Izabella. Izabella is a feisty four-year-old who is thriving in Clarke's classrooms. She's curious, talkative, expressive, and always eager to share her opinion. She wasn't always the confident child she is today. Izabella's family enrolled her in Clarke's early childhood programs when she was two years old. The energetic toddler had much to say, but struggled to share her feelings and interact with her family due to severe hearing loss in both ears. According to her Clarke Teacher of the Deaf, Ashley, Izabella came to Clarke as a frustrated young child who would easily give up when trying to communicate with her family, peers, and others. After a year of intensive Early Intervention Services and six months in Clarke's preschool classroom, Izabella is a talkative, growing leader in her classroom, and is never at a loss for words. Ashley says, "Within just a short amount of time at Clarke, Izabella is able to use long sentences – her language has increased dramatically. It's such a vast difference between when we first began working with her and she had so much to say, but no one could understand her."
Population(s) Served
Infants/Babies (under age 5)
Deaf and Hearing Impaired
Program 2
Preschool and Pre-Kindergarten Programs
When children reach age three, they then enter Clarke's Preschool program, which helps them continue building listening and spoken language skills and prepare them for placement in a mainstream/neighborhood school. Children interact on a daily basis in small groups and individually with teachers and a speech-language pathologist to develop audition and age-appropriate language, using a theme-based curriculum that teaches content and concepts across a range of subject matter. Goals include developing sensory awareness, fine and gross motor skills, cognition, and social skills. Each student receives 30 minutes of speech and language therapy each day. Building a strong foundation for literacy and learning is a major focus of our preschool program, as well as continued language development.
Program long term success
To build long-term sustainability, Clarke is pursuing service-delivery models that are more effective and cost-efficient. Clarke has spearheaded model inclusion programs for preschoolers who are deaf or hard of hearing and their peers with typical hearing. For example, in Philadelphia, Clarke collaborates with CORA Services, an early childhood program, and La Salle University. By sharing space with CORA Services, Clarke has been able to provide our children with a one-of-a-kind opportunity to interact with hearing peers, preparing them for full-time transition into mainstream schools. Other benefits of the collaboration include an extended day care option for Clarke families, and the low overhead of shared space and other shared costs with CORA. This model is also providing rich learning opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students at La Salle University. As referenced below, Clarke has adopted a similar model for its Northampton-based kindergarten through grade eight programs.
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The progress of each child is regularly monitored in accordance with Individual Education Plan (IEP), a Federally-required plan for children ages three and older who have a disability, which is specifically developed for each child, as well as a battery of assessments. Clarke also follows strict standards by licensing agencies including the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care and the Department of Education, the Pennsylvania State Board of Private Academic Schools, The Independent Schools Admissions Association of Greater New York, and the Florida Kindergarten Council to maintain our standard of excellence. Clarke is also a member of Option Schools, a consortium of Listening and Spoken Language programs. The program serves as a resource to parents, educators, and organizations dedicated to helping children with hearing loss learn to listen and talk.
Program success examples
In the 2015-2016 academic year, using Preschool Language Scale (PLS) and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test to assess our children's outcomes, more than 80% of Clarke's preschool scored at or above the median score in auditory comprehension, expressive communication, and total language and more than 90% scored at or above the median standard for the picture vocabulary test.
Population(s) Served
Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
Deaf and Hearing Impaired
Program 3
Kindergarten through Grade Eight
While early diagnosis and improved technology has necessitated that Clarke focus most of its efforts on EI and preschool, we continue to be a national leader in educating school-age children who are deaf are hard of hearing. Clarke's kindergarten through eighth grade program is now co-located in a mainstream public elementary school where our children benefit from interaction with their same age peers with typical hearing. The program features small class sizes in acoustically-modified rooms, allowing specially-trained teachers and therapists to immerse children in hands-on lessons that include speech and language training. Through the collaboration with Northampton Public Schools, they are able to enjoy a variety of extracurricular activities alongside their hearing peers. This kind of collaboration is among the few of its kind in the country and gives children who are deaf the opportunity to spend a portion of their day in typical classrooms. This exposure helps our students better prepare for success as full-time members of the mainstream school communities.
Program long term success
Like the preschool model at Clarke's Philadelphia-location, Clarke's Kindergarten through Grade Eight Program is able to reap the benefits of co-location, which offers less overhead and provides more funding for services that directly impact our students.
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Student success is measured using a number of assessment tools to track the progress of our children. Those tools focus on all aspects of a child's development and assess our children as compared to skills of peers with typical hearing. Specific assessments are administered to determine auditory, speech, vocabulary and language. Families are regularly provided with surveys so that we can gauge parent satisfaction. Evidence of success for Clarke's strategic priorities include: increased program enrollment; establishing new private and public partnerships; and continued data collection and evaluation of outcomes.
Program success examples
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the U.S. graduation rate was 82% in 2014, the highest it had been in the prior five years. Analysis of 30 years of student data from Clarke's original (Northampton) location shows that 98% of students graduated from high school, a much higher rate than that of peers with typical hearing.
Population(s) Served
Children Only (5 - 14 years)
Deaf and Hearing Impaired
Program 4
Mainstream Services
Thanks to the advancements in the field described herein, children who are deaf and hard of hearing are able to succeed in the mainstream at earlier and earlier ages. However, deafness is nearly always educationally and socially significant, requiring the support of trained teachers of the deaf. Clarke's Mainstream Services helps children with hearing loss make a successful transition into mainstream schools and thrive among their hearing peers. Clarke's expert staff provides consulting and itinerant teaching services include program planning, direct instruction, staff orientations, teacher consultations, adjustment counseling and more. Clarke professionals are able correct any barriers related to listening and learning in the classroom. This is achieved by troubleshooting problems with hearing technology such (FM Systems, hearing aids, cochlear implants), and ensuring the mainstream classroom is acoustically adapted to meet the child's unique needs (i.e. working with the teacher to reduce disruptive environmental noise and noise ratio, etc.). Mainstream Services also publishes informational material and hosts a large annual conference, drawing attendees from around the country and the world.
Program long term success
Clarke has quadrupled the number of mainstream students and teachers served by our professionals. Clarke Mainstream Services staff travels to nearly 200 neighborhood schools throughout Massachusetts as well as Pennsylvania to support children with hearing loss as they learn alongside their peers with typical hearing. Clarke is one of the largest nonprofit providers of mainstream services for children who are deaf or hard of hearing in the country.
By receiving the support of Mainstream Services, children who are deaf or hard of hearing can become full members of their school communities and have full access to the same academic, extracurricular, and social opportunities available to their hearing peers from kindergarten through college and into adulthood. While the personal benefits of being able to fully participate in mainstream schools and society are priceless, the financial savings to school districts and taxpayers are also very significant. According to a study by Johns Hopkins University, when children are not identified and do not receive early intervention, special education for a child with hearing loss costs schools an additional $420,000. The additional lifetime cost is approximately $1 million per individual or even higher.
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Clarke's Mainstream Services program tracks the progress of each child's progress by participating Individualized Education Plan (IEP) meetings with school staff and parents. Within the past three years, children who have been served in their classrooms by a Clarke Teacher of the Deaf through the Mainstream Services program have matriculated at a rate of 100%. Clarke also monitors program impact by providing mainstream educators and students' parents with formal surveys gauging impact.
Program success examples
When asked to rate the overall value of Clarke's youth programs in an August 2016 parent survey, 95% of respondents selected "excellent." Parents made the following comments:
"Clarke gave Grace and Elizabeth an opportunity to not only connect with other kids but also with each other. The experience brought them closer together and helped them to realize that they are similar in many ways. Clarke continues to give Elizabeth confidence, friendship, a place to be herself and a place where people just "get it". Grace gained so much confidence and can't wait until next year. She enjoyed the independence she experienced and the relationships she built with the campers, teachers and counselors. She felt included and respected.
"Our daughter had just recently started feeling 'different' from her sisters and classmates--not all the time, but it is talked about more than it has been in the past. Camp came at just the right time. When everyone else needs to consider equipment, to use or not, the time it takes, around swimming, bedtime, morning routines, you don't stand out, you can be more patient with yourself.
Population(s) Served
Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
Deaf and Hearing Impaired
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With locations in Northampton and Boston, Massachusetts; New York City, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Jacksonville, Florida, Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech serves more than 1,200 children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families annually. As a regional resource, Clarke serves children from throughout Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York City and the New York exurbs, southeast Philadelphia, southern New Jersey, southeast Georgia and north Florida. Clarke's Mainstream Services works with children who are deaf or hard of hearing learning in schools in the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic. In 2015, Clarke began offering early intervention services to children regardless of where they live as part of a teleservices program called telepractice – Virtual Intervention Services for Infants and Toddlers who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (tVISIT).
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E9 tuning
E9 tuning is a common tuning for steel guitar necks of more than six strings. In particular, it is the most common tuning for the far neck on a two-neck table steel guitar or pedal steel guitar, most often combined with C6 tuning for the near neck, and also a popular tuning for single neck instruments of eight or more strings.
The E9 tuning has evolved to support optimal chord and scale patterns across a single fret on the 10-string pedal steel guitar.
Corresponding tunings for a six string lap steel guitar are the E6 tuning E-G#-B-C#-E-G#, or E7 tuning B-D-E-G#-B-E.
A popular E9 tuning for eight string table steel guitar is the western swing tuning E-G#-B-D-F#-G#-B-E, low to high and near to far.
The standard Nashville E9 tuning for ten string pedal steel guitar is B-D-E-F#-G#-B-E-G#-D#-F#.
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Despite it being a quiet time of year we are out valuing more than ever, as we prepare a great book of properties for sales to the trophy-home hunters returning with their bonuses. January and February are always very busy.
The Olympics is one of the biggest things to happen in the East End, and it is generating fabulous interest in property around here. We are valuing everything from small studios to large houses for short lets during this summer's Games, as well as homes for people hoping to sell when the world's focus is on the Canary Wharf area. It's great news for a part of London that is often overlooked.
This morning brings a rather gracious phone call from a client whose property had been hanging around a little while. Since he and his family moved to their new home, feedback on their old house had been less than good from most applicants. After months of discussion over the condition of the place, the client finally took our advice and sent in his decorators.
Following an open day of viewings of the spruced-up property, we received three asking-price offers leading to sealed best bids and we finally agreed a sale at eight per cent above the asking price. Needless to say the owner is over the moon and wishes he had taken my advice sooner.
I have a buyer from Hong Kong who, luckily for him, managed to secure his dream house for the asking price. The sale only went through because we managed to arrange a meeting with the vendor in Hong Kong, one of the many bonuses of having such a great network of offices all over the world. Buyers from the Far East are very prominent at the moment, especially in Canary Wharf.
The vendor pops into the office while in London to thank me for my efforts, leading to some amusement as he brings in his whole family including his daughter and keeps referring to me as a "very handsome man". Although I am a modest chap, I still get the distinct impression that he sees me as an ideal son-in-law. All in a day's work.
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I go round to pick up the keys in preparation for the new owner to collect them tomorrow, as they are looking to move in sharpish that day. On arrival I find the vendor sitting, enjoying a cup of tea, and not one piece of furniture out of place.
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A young girl who was being bullied at school and online took her own life back in April and now riders plan to hit the road tomorrow to help her family and to raise awareness about the torture some kids face daily.
Bikers Against Bullying are hosting a motorcyle run in loving memory of Ashley Molina on Saturday, May 31st.
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The 100-mile ride is $15 for a single rider or $20 doubles.
All of the money raised will help Ashley's family with funeral expenses.
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At the fundraiser Ashley's tragic story will also be shared.
She was just 13-years-old and was in school in Grand Prairie when she committed suicide.
Ashley's mother, Mandy Fenoglio, is a Texoma native.
Here is what she had to say about her daughter, "My daughter Ashley Molina hid her problems well. We were best friends and I was the best mom to her I could be. I have her journal . She did not become suicidal until 4 days before her death. Those 4 days she was harassed at school as well through cyber networks. I have beat myself up for a month and 3 weeks now trying to figure out what, as her mom , that I missed. Her story will be told at her benefit. A big thank you from myself and her brother and sister. The support gives us hope to make it through this tough time in our lives."
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The primary means of transport for budget travellers in Poland is by train, and the PKP railway system runs three main types. Express services (ekspresowy), particularly IC (intercity) or EC (eurocity), stop at major cities only, and seat reservations (miejscówka; 10–12.50zł) are compulsory. "Fast" trains (pospieszny) are less costly, but not necessarily slower. The cheapest services (osobowy) are less predictable – some are quick, while others stop at every haystack. Seats come in two classes, with first-class simply meaning a six-rather than eight-seat compartment; it's rarely worth the extra cost. InterRail passes – including the "one-country" pass – are valid, though you'll still have to pay for seat reservations. The main city stations are generally termed główny; departures (odjazdy) are printed on yellow posters; arrivals (przyjazdy) on white; peron means platform. You can check times and ticket prices on the PKP timetable online (w rozklad-pkp.pl).
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Personally I think that families should accept the responsibility of having such a son or daughter and try to solve the issue internally and publicly. Simply killing the person in question off would not alleviate the shame, in my opinion, simply because the act is already done and the issue can be solved in a marriage cover-up.
I am not saying that I support all the sex and drinking in the universe, but things DO happen, accidentally or otherwise, and if the solution is killing off people, there wouldn't really be a lot of people left in the world. Plus, it really is not to the family's credit to kill of people for misbehaving.
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> Is'nt Luna great! She's soooo amazing!!! I enjoyed acting as one of my fav characters- I actually have a cat named Luna :)
I personally have a hard time writing Luna, since it's so hard to give her words and attitudes that sound and feel right.
Luna is an integral person in my current story, and at some point she may or may not end up in a relationship with HP/HG, depending on the decisions they make, which is the main plotline of that story.
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text: Formal Semantics Slides by Julia Hockenmaier, Laura McGarrity, Bill McCartney, Chris Manning, and Dan Klein Formal Semantics It comes in two flavors: • Lexical Semantics: The meaning of words • Compositional semantics: How the meaning of individual units combine to form the meaning of larger units What is meaning • Meaning ≠ Dictionary entries Dictionaries define words using words. Circularity! Reference • Referent: the thing/idea in the world that a word refers to • Reference: the relationship between a word and its referent Reference Barack Obama president The president is the commander-in-chief. = Barack Obama is the commander-in-chief. Reference Barack Obama I want to be the president. ≠ I want to be Barack Obama. president Reference • Tooth fairy? • Phoenix? • Winner of the 2016 presidential election? What is meaning? • Meaning ≠ Dictionary entries • Meaning ≠ Reference Sense • Sense: The mental representation of a word or phrase, independent of its referent. Sense ≠ Mental Image • A word may have different mental images for different people. – E.g., "mother" • A word may conjure a typical mental image (a prototype), but can signify atypical examples as well. Sense v. Reference • A word/phrase may have sense, but no reference: – King of the world – The camel in CIS 8538 – The greatest integer – The • A word may have reference, but no sense: – Proper names: Dan McCloy, Kristi Krein (who are they?!) Sense v. Reference • A word may have the same referent, but more than one sense: – The morning star / the evening star (Venus) • A word may have one sense, but multiple referents: – Dog, bird Some semantic relations between words • Hyponymy: subclass – – – – Poodle < dog Crimson < red Red < color Dance < move • Hypernymy: superclass • Synonymy: – Couch/sofa – Manatee / sea cow • Antonymy: – Dead/alive – Married/single Lexical Decomposition • Word sense can be represented with semantic features: Compositional Semantics Compositional Semantics • The study of how meanings of small units combine to form the meaning of larger units The dog chased the cat ≠ The cat chased the dog. ie, the whole does not equal the sum of the parts. The dog chased the cat = The cat was chased by the dog ie, syntax matters to determining meaning. Principle of Compositionality The meaning of a sentence is determined by the meaning of its words in conjunction with the way they are syntactically combined. Exceptions to Compositionality • Anomaly: when phrases are well-formed syntactically, but not semantically – Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. (Chomsky) – That bachelor is pregnant. Exceptions to Compositionality • Metaphor: the use of an expression to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity – Time is money. – The walls have ears. Exceptions to Compositionality • Idioms: Phrases with fixed meanings not composed of literal meanings of the words – Kick the bucket = die (*The bucket was kicked by John.) – When pigs fly = 'it will never happen' (*She suspected pigs might fly tomorrow.) – Bite off more than you can chew = 'to take on too much' (*He chewed just as much as he bit off.) Idioms in other languages Logical Foundations for Compositional Semantics • We need a language for expressing the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences • Many possible choices; we will focus on – First-order predicate logic (FOPL) with types – Lambda calculus Truth-conditional Semantics • Linguistic expressions – "Bob sings." • Logical translations – sings(Bob) – but could be p_5789023(a_257890) • Denotation: – [[bob]] = some specific person (in some context) – [[sings(bob)]] = true, in situations where Bob is singing; false, otherwise • Types on translations: – bob: e(ntity) – sings(bob): t(rue or false, a boolean type) Truth-conditional Semantics Some more complicated logical descriptions of language: – "All girls like a video game." – x:e . y:e . girl(x) [video-game(y) likes(x,y)] – "Alice is a former teacher." – (former(teacher))(Alice) – "Alice saw the cat before Bob did." – x:e, y:e, z:e, t1:e, t2:e . cat(x) see(y) see(z) agent(y, Alice) patient(y, x) agent(z, Bob) patient(z, x) time(y, t1) time(z, t2) <(t1, t2) FOPL Syntax Summary • A set of types T = {t1, … } • A set of constants C = {c1, …}, each associated with a type from T • A set of relations R = {r1, …}, where each ri is a subset of Cn for some n. • A set of variables X = {x1, …} • , , , , , , ., : Truth-conditional semantics • Proper names: – Refer directly to some entity in the world – Bob: bob • Sentences: – Are either t or f – Bob sings: sings(bob) • So what about verbs and VPs? – – – – sings must combine with bob to produce sings(bob) The λ-calculus is a notation for functions whose arguments are not yet filled. sings: λx.sings(x) This is a predicate, a function that returns a truth value. In this case, it takes a single entity as an argument, so we can write its type as e t • Adjectives? Lambda calculus • FOPL + λ (new quantifier) will be our lambda calculus • Intuitively, λ is just a way of creating a function – E.g., girl() is a relation symbol; but λx . girl(x) is a function that takes one argument. • New inference rule: function application (λx . L1(x)) (L2) → L1(L2) E.g., (λx . x2) (3) → 32 E.g., (λx . sings(x)) (Bob) → sings(Bob) • Lambda calculus lets us describe the meaning of words individually. – Function application (and a few other rules) then lets us combine those meanings to come up with the meaning of larger phrases or sentences. Compositional Semantics with the λ-calculus • So now we have meanings for the words • How do we know how to combine the words? • Associate a combination rule with each grammar rule: – S : β(α) NP : α VP : β (function application) – VP : λx. α(x) ∧ β(x) VP : α and : ∅ VP : β (intersection) • Example: Composition: Some more examples • Transitive verbs: – likes : λx.λy.likes(y,x) – Two-places predicates, type e(et) – VP "likes Amy" : λy.likes(y,Amy) is just a one-place predicate • Quantifiers: – What does "everyone" mean? – Everyone : λf.x.f(x) – Some problems: • Have to change our NP/VP rule • Won't work for "Amy likes everyone" – What about "Everyone likes someone"? – Gets tricky quickly! Composition: Some more examples • Indefinites – The wrong way: • "Bob ate a waffle" : ate(bob,waffle) • "Amy ate a waffle" : ate(amy,waffle) – Better translation: • • • • ∃x.waffle(x) ^ ate(bob, x) What does the translation of "a" have to be? What about "the"? What about "every"? Denotation • What do we do with the logical form? – It has fewer (no?) ambiguities – Can check the truth-value against a database – More usefully: can add new facts, expressed in language, to an existing relational database – Question-answering: can check whether a statement in a corpus entails a question-answer pair: "Bob sings and dances" Q:"Who sings?" has answer A:"Bob" – Can chain together facts for story comprehension Grounding • What does the translation likes : λx. λy. likes(y,x) have to do with actual liking? • Nothing! (unless the denotation model says it does) • Grounding: relating linguistic symbols to perceptual referents – Sometimes a connection to a database entry is enough – Other times, you might insist on connecting "blue" to the appropriate portion of the visual EM spectrum – Or connect "likes" to an emotional sensation • Alternative to grounding: meaning postulates – You could insist, e.g., that likes(y,x) => knows(y,x) More representation issues • Tense and events – In general, you don't get far with verbs as predicates – Better to have event variables e • "Alice danced" : danced(Alice) vs. • "Alice danced" : ∃e.dance(e)^agent(e, Alice)^(time(e)<now) – Event variables let you talk about non-trivial tense/aspect structures: "Alice had been dancing when Bob sneezed" More representation issues • Propositional attitudes (modal logic) – "Bob thinks that I am a gummi bear" • thinks(bob, gummi(me))? • thinks(bob, "He is a gummi bear")? – Usually, the solution involves intensions (^p) which are, roughly, the set of possible worlds in which predicate p is true. • thinks(bob, ^gummi(me)) – Computationally challenging • Each agent has to model every other agent's mental state • This comes up all the time in language – – E.g., if you want to talk about what your bill claims that you bought, vs. what you think you bought, vs. what you actually bought. More representation issues • Multiple quantifiers: "In this country, a woman gives birth every 15 minutes. Our job is to find her, and stop her." -- Groucho Marx • Deciding between readings – "Bob bought a pumpkin every Halloween." – "Bob put a warning in every window." More representation issues • Other tricky stuff – – – – Adverbs Non-intersective adjectives Generalized quantifiers Generics • "Cats like naps." • "The players scored a goal." – Pronouns and anaphora • "If you have a dime, put it in the meter." – … etc., etc. Mapping Sentences to Logical Forms CCG Parsing • Combinatory Categorial Grammar – Lexicalized PCFG – Categories encode argument sequences • A/B means a category that can combine with a B to the right to form an A • A \ B means a category that can combine with a B to the left to form an A – A syntactic parallel to the lambda calculus Learning to map sentences to logical form • Zettlemoyer and Collins (IJCAI 05, EMNLP 07) Some Training Examples CCG Lexicon Parsing Rules (Combinators) Application Right: X : f(a) X/Y : f Y : a Left: X : f(a) Y : a X\Y : f Additional rules: • Composition • Type-raising CCG Parsing Example Parsing a Question Lexical Generation Input Training Example Sentence: Texas borders Kansas. Logical form: borders(Texas, Kansas) GENLEX • Input: a training example (Si, Li) • Computation: – Create all substrings of consecutive words in Si – Create categories from Li – Create lexical entries that are the cross products of these two sets • Output: Lexicon Λ GENLEX Cross Product Input Training Example Sentence: Texas borders Kansas. Logical form: borders(Texas, Kansas) Output Lexicon Output Substrings Texas borders Kansas Texas borders borders Kansas Texas borders Kansas X (cross product) Output Categories NP : texas NP : kansas (S\NP)/NP : λx.λy.borders(y,x) GENLEX Output Lexicon Words Category Texas NP : texas Texas NP : kansas Texas (S\NP)/NP : λx.λy.borders(y,x) borders NP : texas Borders NP : kansas borders (S\NP)/NP : λx.λy.borders(y,x) … … Texas borders Kansas NP : texas Texas borders Kansas NP : kansas Texas borders Kansas (S\NP)/NP : λx.λy.borders(y,x) Weighted CCG Given a log-linear model with a CCG lexicon Λ, a feature vector f, and weights w: The best parse is: y* = argmax w ∙ f(x,y) y where we consider all possible parses y for the sentence x given the lexicon Λ. Parameter Estimation for Weighted CCG Parsing Inputs: Training set {(Si,Li) | i = 1, …, n} Initial lexicon Λ, initial weights w, num. iter. T Computation: For t=1 … T, i = 1 … n: Step 1: Check correctness If y* = argmax w ∙ f(Si,y) is Li, skip to next i Step 2: Lexical generation Set λ = Λ ∪ GENLEX(Si,Li) Let y' = argmax w ∙ f(Si,y) y s.t. L(y) = Li Define λi to be the lexical entries in y' Set Λ = Λ ∪ λi Step 3: Update Parameters Let y'' = argmax w ∙ f(Si,y) If y'' ≠ Li y Set w = w + f(Si, y') – f(Si,y'') Output: Lexicon Λ and parameters w Example Learned Lexical Entries Challenge Revisited Disharmonic Application Missing Content Words Missing content-free words A complete parse Geo880 Test Set Precision Recall F1 Zettlemoyer & Collins 2007 95.49 83.20 88.93 Zettlemoyer & Collins 2005 96.25 79.29 86.95 Wong & Mooney 2007 93.72 80.00 86.31 Summing Up • Hypothesis: Principle of Compositionality – Semantics of NL sentences and phrases can be composed from the semantics of their subparts • Rules can be derived which map syntactic analysis to semantic representation (Rule-to-Rule Hypothesis) – Lambda notation provides a way to extend FOPC to this end – But coming up with rule2rule mappings is hard • Idioms, metaphors and other non-compositional aspects of language makes things tricky (e.g. fake gun)


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Chapter One Renee Delaney trudged along the sidewalk on her way to the bus depot, her leather soles scraping against a layer of city grit on concrete.
It was too bad she hadn't put on her wannabe Sketchers when she'd left the house, but she'd been in a hurry and had slipped into the only other shoes she owned-a pair of worn-out brown sandals that had been resting near the cot in the back room where she'd slept. Now her toes were cold, and she had a sore spot just below the inside of her ankle, where the frayed strap had rubbed the skin raw.
The chill in the air caused her to shiver, and she drew her fists into the sleeves of her sweat shirt, which she'd chosen to wear because the extra-large garment hid the growing bump of her stomach. She'd never been fat in her life, but she wouldn't stress about that now, or she might freak out at the thought of how big she was going to get.
Up ahead, a man wearing a tattered gray trench coat with a dirty, red-plaid lining pushed off the wall he'd been slumped against. As he approached, he grinned. "Hey there, little girl."
Her stomach clenched, and her heart rate spiked. She knew better than to look away from him, so she eyed him warily and continued walking at the same pace.
As he approached, his smile broadened, revealing discolored teeth, the front one chipped. "Where you goin', girl?"
Yeah, right. Like she really wanted him to know. She narrowed her eyes in a don't-mess-with-me glare, which worked-sort of. He did walk past her, but his arm bumped her shoulder in the process.
He reeked of stale cigarette smoke and sweat on top of sweat. Cheap booze, too. And the horrible smell lingered, even after he passed her by.
She suspected he was homeless, just like she was.
Oh, God, she thought. Don't let me end up smelling like that guy.
She blew out a sigh. She might not know where she'd end up tonight, but it would definitely have a bathroom and shower.
Speaking of a bathroom, she'd have to find one before she boarded the first bus leaving town.
She fingered the swell of her belly through the thick, cotton sweat shirt and caressed the bulge where her baby grew.
Just last week, she'd purchased a couple of blousy tops at the thrift shop, but that was before Mary Ellen, her mom's second cousin, had dropped the bomb about moving out, and Renee had realized she was going to need every bit of cash she could get her hands on.
But who cared? She'd been homeless before-lots of times. Besides, this was only temporary. She'd get a job before the money ran out.
It would have been nice if Mary Ellen had let her stick around until the baby was born, though. But earlier today, the older woman had flipped out at the news.
"Pregnant?" Mary Ellen had slapped her hands on her pudgy hips. "How could you be so stupid? You're no better than your mother."
Renee had wanted to argue, but how could she defend a woman she'd never really known?
"You'll just have to get rid of it," Mary Ellen had said.
Justin Detweiler, the father of the baby, had been blown away by the news, too, and had suggested the same easy solution.
But Renee had given both Justin and later Mary Ellen the same answer. "I can't."
She hadn't explained why. For one thing, she wasn't exactly sure-she just couldn't do it, that's all.
"Well, I'm not going to marry you or anything," Justin had said. "I've got plans for college."
Renee had plans for college, too, since she figured an education was her only hope to make something of her life. Of course, the academic option had poofed the moment that pink dot had formed on the home pregnancy test.
When they first hooked up, Renee had thought Justin was going to be some kind of knight in shining armor, but his body language had quickly put the kibosh on that. So did the way he'd stepped back from her, letting her know that their budding relationship had just taken a dump, and that it was all her fault. The jerk.
"I've got some money in savings," he'd said. "So I can pay for it."
At that point, she'd realized she'd better take whatever he gave her, even if she wasn't going to use it for what he'd intended.
She'd tried to tell herself that she didn't care about not having a boyfriend anymore-and not having a place to stay tonight-but that wasn't true. She never had liked being alone, especially when it was dark.
"I'm not running a flop house," Mary Ellen had said, her pinched face growing red. "I agreed to let you stay with me after your last placement didn't work out, but I'm not taking on a baby, too. Get rid of it or I'll call the social worker and have her put you back in foster care."
That had scared Renee more than anything. Not for herself, but for the baby.
What if they took the poor kid away from her and put them in separate foster homes?
She couldn't risk letting that happen. For some reason, she felt an almost overwhelming sense of responsibility for the baby. Who else was going to love it and make sure it wasn't sad or lonely?
So she'd packed up her things and headed out the door with all the courage and pride she could muster, her chin up, her shoulders straight. Well, at least for the first block or two.
Now, as the sun began to slip into the west and she neared the bus depot, she wasn't so sure about anything anymore.
She shifted the shoulder strap of the gray backpack that held the most valuable of her possessions: the three hundred dollars Justin had given her-less the cost of a cheeseburger and fries-a fake ID, some baggy clothes, a plastic sports bottle filled with water, and a couple of granola bars she'd been hoarding in the closet-size bedroom that had, until earlier today, been hers.
Now she was on her own.
As a long line of parked buses came into view, a tall, shaggy-faced man turned the corner, heading in her direction.
He wore a baggy green shirt, faded blue jeans with a frayed hole in the knee, and a dusty pair of Birkenstocks that looked as though he'd had them since the '60s. She suspected he was homeless, too. Or maybe he was just a leftover, drugged-out hippie.
He smiled, and his eyes-the prettiest shade of blue she'd ever seen-zeroed in on her. She tried to give him the same back-off message she'd given the last guy who'd crossed her path, but for some reason, she wasn't able to.
"How's it going?" he asked.
Before she could turn up her nose or respond in a way that would tell him to go on his way, footsteps sounded at a pretty good clip. She glanced up to see another dude rounding the corner at a dead run, a black vinyl handbag tucked under his arm.
Renee tried to get out of his way, but instead of watching where he was running, he was looking over his shoulder.
Bam! He slammed into her like an out-of-bounds running back bowling over a cheerleader on the sidelines.
With her hands still tucked in her sleeves, she couldn't break her fall and landed hard on the sidewalk. The purse snatcher stumbled, but caught himself and kept running.
"Are you okay?" The hippie-guy reached out a hand to help her up, and she pushed a fist through the sleeve opening and took it, surprised at the warmth of his touch.
She nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine."
"How about the baby?" he asked.
The baby? How did he know she was pregnant? Renee wasn't showing all that much yet, especially in the bulky sweat shirt. So she cocked her head to the side and furrowed her brow.
"The baby," he repeated. "A tiny little girl, with curly black hair and green eyes."
He was a hippie all right. And strung out on some kind of whacky weed or sugar cubes or something.
Renee managed the hint of a smile. "Yeah, she's fine, too."
"Good." He nodded toward the bus depot. "You leaving town?"
Something told her to keep that info to herself, yet for some dumb reason she nodded.
"My name's Jesse," he said, as if wanting to be friends.
But she didn't respond. He didn't need to know who she was.
"Where are you headed?" he asked.
It wasn't any of his business, so she should have shined him. But for some reason, she shrugged instead and said, "San Francisco maybe. I'm not sure yet."
Actually, it might be nice to ride a bus all night long. That way, she'd end up in a new city and still have a whole lot of daylight left.
"Fairbrook is a better choice," he said. "You know where that is?"
She nodded. It was another San Diego suburb, not far from here.
"The Community Church runs a soup kitchen," he added, "so I'll probably end up there."
She didn't need to hear his sob story. Not when she had one of her own.
Jesse offered her another smile that crinkled the skin around those pretty blue eyes. "You'll find everything you need in Fairbrook." Then, instead of heading toward the buses, he walked in the opposite direction.
Weird, she thought, as she continued on her trek out of town. Jesse, the hippie guy, was probably crazy, but he'd offered her the first bit of kindness and respect she'd received in a long time. Especially from a stranger.
If he was right, and Fairbrook had a place where she could eat some free meals, she'd be able to conserve the money she had. And that was a top priority right now. She'd had her fill of foster homes and shirttail relatives like Mary Ellen. And it was time to make it on her own.
Fairbrook was as good a place as any.
The engine of the ten-year-old Ford Taurus sputtered again, and Craig Houston bit his tongue, holding back a profanity that wasn't considered appropriate for a pastor to say. But the blasted car had been skipping and chugging ever since he'd left his granddad's home near Phoenix. And as he neared the California line, he was growing more frustrated by the minute.
If his life had been part of some master scheme, he suspected his day would have gone a whole lot smoother than it had. So it seemed only natural to question the validity of his "call" to the ministry-or at least his assignment as an associate pastor to what he'd been told was "a fairly small congregation in a lovely beachside community in southern California."
The car skipped again, and Craig let his temper slip just long enough to slam his hand on the dashboard. At this rate, he was never going to reach the Fairbrook city limits.
As he'd done several times since leaving Scottsdale, he pulled into the closest service station and asked if they had a mechanic on duty.
"Hey, Pete!" one guy yelled to a burly man in his late forties who wore a pair of grungy coveralls.
Twenty minutes later, Craig got the same answer from Pete that he'd been getting all day. "I can't find anything wrong under the hood."
"Honest," Craig said, "it's running hard and skipping like crazy."
Pete agreed to take the car out for a test drive, only to come back ten minutes later and say the same thing three other so-called experts had said earlier.
"It ran like a charm for me." Pete handed the keys back to Craig.
That figured. Instead of some master game plan, this was beginning to feel like one divinely inspired practical joke.
"Do you have a pay phone?" Craig asked, wishing he knew where he'd left his cell. He'd had it when he'd started out this morning, but somewhere along the way, he'd misplaced it.
Pete pointed to the back wall of the shop with a beefy, grease-stained hand.
"Thank you."
While striding toward the telephone, Craig reached into the front pocket of his dress slacks and pulled out all the change he had, as well as the stick-it note with the name and the number of the couple awaiting his arrival.
When the line connected, a female voice sounded. "Hello?"
"Mrs. Delacourt?" he asked.
"This is Craig Houston. I'm really sorry about calling like this. I know you've prepared dinner for me, but I've been having car trouble and have no idea when I'll arrive."
"Where are you? Can I send someone to pick you up?"
"I'm still in Arizona, so there's no point coming to get me. I just called to let you know I'd be late and to tell you that I'll pick up something to eat along the way."
"I'm sorry you've had so much trouble."
So was Craig.
"Is there something my husband or I can do to help?"
"I'm afraid not." He'd just had the fourth mechanic in a row insist there wasn't anything wrong with the engine, but that definitely wasn't the case. Unless, of course, Craig was losing it and imagining some reason to go home and revamp his future.
"You take care," Mrs. Delacourt said. "And don't worry about the time you arrive. My husband and I stay up late."
"Thanks." Craig hung up the phone, then sighed.
What a lousy way for the new associate minister to introduce himself to the couple who'd offered to take him in until his place was ready.
He could, he supposed, resort to prayer, asking for smooth sailing the rest of the way, but he and God weren't exactly on speaking terms lately.
Of course, from all he'd been taught in seminary, he suspected that was his own fault.
But under the circumstances, taking all the blame didn't seem entirely fair.
As the sun dropped low in the western sky, and the transit bus drove off, blasting Renee and two other disembarking passengers with a diesel-fueled roar, she surveyed her new surroundings.
A self-serve gas station that offered a mini-mart and a car wash sat on the corner of a street lined with trees covered in purple blossoms, which made the city seem prettier than the one she'd just left. At least you knew it was spring here. Maybe Fairbrook had been a good choice.
She didn't take anyone's advice very often. Not because she was stubborn or anything. It's just that most people she came across-young or old-hadn't done a whole lot with their own lives and didn't seem to know what they were talking about.
And those who did?
Well, they just didn't understand the reality Renee lived with.
She'd talked to the high school guidance counselor about it once and tried to explain.
Well, sort of.
Mrs. Brinkley had seemed to think that all Renee had to do was keep out of trouble, buckle down, and study. Then, somehow, like magic, a scholarship and financial aid would make everything okay.
Some of what she'd said was true, but buckling down wasn't so easy to do when there were people in and out of the apartment at all times of the day and night. Or when the lights went out while Renee was reading A Tale of Two Cities for English class because Mary Ellen hadn't paid the electric bill. Or when the goofy guy who shared a wall with Renee kept his radio turned up high all night, listening to whacky AM talk shows where callers reported alien abductions and discussed a government conspiracy to keep them quiet.
Or when her stomach growled so bad it was hard to focus on 2+2=4, let alone 3x-5y=z, and the only thing in the fridge was a six-pack of beer, a jar of salsa, and a hunk of dried-out cheese.
So while it seemed a bit wild to follow the advice of a homeless hippie-guy, the need to conserve her cash and the promise of a soup kitchen had been key to Renee's decision to go to Fairbrook.
Now all she had to do was find a place to stay for the night.
A gray-haired lady dressed in teal-blue slacks and a cream-colored sweater began a slow shuffle along the sidewalk. A worn black tote bag hung from the crook in her arm.
"Excuse me," Renee said, easily catching up with her. "Can you tell me where I can find the community church?"
The woman cocked her silvery head to the side and squinted, as though she was new in town, too. Then she lifted her free arm and pointed a gnarled finger in the same direction she was heading. "This is Main Street. Follow it down about eight or ten blocks. You'll come to Applewood. Turn left. That'll lead you to Mulberry Park. The church is on the same side as the playground, although the entrance is actually on First Avenue."
Renee wasn't all that good with directions, but she figured a park and a church would be tough to miss. "Thanks."
She continued to tag along until the older woman turned down one of the side streets, and Renee trudged straight ahead. The sore on the side of her foot burned and stung something awful, and she found herself limping.
She counted blocks as she went, and while it seemed as though it took forever to reach Applewood, it had probably only been a few torturous minutes. Fortunately, the little old lady knew what she was talking about. The park lay straight ahead.
Renee glanced beyond the playground and easily spotted the church, one of those white, old-fashioned types that had stained glass windows, a bright red double door in front, and a bell tower with a steeple on top. Trouble was, the parking lot was practically deserted, and Renee felt like kicking herself for being so dumb and listening to a bushy-faced hippie.
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