No Imagining too Radical, No Action too Disruptive

Fast Clustering with Lower Bounds: No Customer too Far, No Shop too Small

We study the LowerBoundedCenter (LBC) problem, which is a clustering problem that can be viewed as a variant of the k-Center problem. In the LBC problem, we are given a set of points P in a metric space and a lower bound λ, and the goal is to select a set C ⊆ P of centers and an assignment that maps each point in P to a center of C such that each center of C is assigned at least λ points. The p...

No Sentence Is Too Confusing To Ignore

We consider sentences of the form No X is too Y to Z, in which X is a noun phrase, Y is an adjective phrase, and Z is a verb phrase. Such constructions are ambiguous, with two possible (and opposite!) interpretations, roughly meaning either that “Every X Zs”, or that “No X Zs”. The interpretations have been noted to depend on semantic and pragmatic factors. We show here that automatic disambigu...

No heroic measures: how soon is too soon to stop?

Presuppositional Too, Postsuppositional Too

One of the insights of dynamic semantics in its various guises (Kamp 1981, Heim 1982, Groenendijk & Stokhof 1991, Kamp & Reyle 1993 among many others) is that interpretation is sensitive to left-to-right order. Is order sensitivity, particularly the default left-to-right order of evaluation, a property of particular meanings of certain lexical items (e.g., dynamically interpreted conjunction) o...

radical iort, yes or no?

0