Indexical time references and attitude reports

Indexical Expressions in the Scope of Attitude Verbs

A sentential theory of attitudes holds that propositions (the things that agents believe and know) are sentences of a representation language. Given such a theory, it is natural to suggest that the proposition expressed by an utterance of natural language is also a sentence of a representation language. This leads to a straightforward account of the semantics of attitude verbs. However, this ki...

Conditionals as attitude reports

Most theories of conditionals and attitudes do not analyze either phenomenon in terms of the other. A few view attitude reports as a species of conditionals (e.g. Stalnaker 1984, Heim 1992). Based on evidence from Kalaallisut, this paper argues for the opposite thesis: conditionals are a species of attitude reports. The argument builds on prior findings that conditionals are modal topic-comment...

Attitude Reports , Events , and Partial Models

Annotating Speech, Attitude and Perception Reports

We present REPORTS, an annotation scheme for the annotation of speech, attitude and perception reports. The scheme makes it possible to annotate the various text elements involved in such reports (e.g. embedding entity, complement, complement head) and their relations in a uniform way, which in turn facilitates the automatic extraction of information on, for example, complementation and vocabul...

Now: Between Indexical Thoughts and Indexical Thought

It has long been argued that rational action necessitates having indexical thoughts. The ability to understand and generate indexical expressions is also a precondition for interacting in natural language. A rational acting agent that interacts in natural language is, thus, required to develop a proper treatment of indexicality. Treatments of indexicality in the literature have, almost always, ...