Epistemic NP Modifiers

Epistemic NP Modifiers

(2) The suspects are in custody at two undisclosed locations. 'The suspects are in custody at two locations and it is not disclosed which locations they are in custody in'. (3) The suspects were arrested at unspecified locations. 'The suspects were arrested at some locations and it was unspecified which locations they were arrested in'. (4) Fabienne put the money in an unexpected place. 'Fabien...

An Empirical Analysis of Constructing Non-restrictive NP Modifiers to Express Semantic Relations

It is not a rare phenomenon for human written text to use non-restrictive NP modifiers to express essential pieces of information or support the situation presented in the main proposition containing the NP, for example, "Private Eye, which couldn't afford the libel payment, had been threatened with closure." (from Wall Street Journal) Yet no previous research in NLG investigates this in detail...

An Empirical Analysis of Constructing Non-restrictive NP Modifiers to Express Semantic Relations

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Epistemic Networks for Epistemic Commitments

The ways in which people seek and process information are fundamentally epistemic in nature. Existing epistemic cognition research has tended towards characterizing this fundamental relationship as cognitive or belief-based in nature. This paper builds on recent calls for a shift towards activity-oriented perspectives on epistemic cognition and proposes a new theory of ‘epistemic commitments’. ...