Clarification and correction

Correction/Clarification about FDA Review Documents

Erick Turner Emma Veitch cites my PLoS Medicine Essay [1] about how the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) review of documents can serve as a source of clinical trials data, but she follows it up with the statement, “However, it is diffi cult to have confi dence in data released by sponsors when the data have not been subjected to external, independent peer review. Furthermore, this informa...

Clarification

Lamella Clarification and Biofiltration

9 This study investigates the occurrence of all priority substances (n = 41) listed in the 10 Water Framework Directive and additional substances (n = 47) in raw sewage, as well as the 11 removal performance of lamella clarification and biofiltration techniques. Once the efficiency 12 of both types of techniques has been assessed for typical wastewater parameters, the 13 differences in each tec...

Clarification and generalized quantifiers

We attempt to show that a classical concern of formal semantics, quantification, interacts in an interesting way with dialogue strategies when viewed from the perspective of our approach to semantics using Type Theory with Records (TTR). TTR analyzes semantic content in terms of structured semantic objects containing subcomponents and we argue that these components influence what a dialogue par...

Resolving Ellipsis in Clarification

We offer a computational analysis of the resolution of ellipsis in certain cases of dialogue clarification. We show that this goes beyond standard techniques used in anaphora and ellipsis resolution and requires operations on highly structured, linguistically heterogeneous representations. We characterize these operations and the representations on which they operate. We offer an analysis couch...