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Can natural languages be considered homoiconic?
I stumbled upon this thread and felt like I could get a more in-depth answer to this question here.
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Is there a measure of how easy a sentence is to parse as a Natural Language problem?
Reading the news report for the AP Twitter hoax:
Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured.
I'm thinking this is the most unambiguous and perfect stock market bomb. ...
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What defines a language?
I'm reading around multimodal text and many of the readings I have come across (Kress, Halliday) seem to define language as spoken or written communication. That seems to exclude sign language and ...