Private Pilgrimages at Syon Abbey? A Note on Cambridge University Library MS Ff.6.33

François Recanati , Literal Meaning , Cambridge : Cambridge University

Contrary to a certain traditional conception dating back at least to Locke, everyday linguistic communication is not a simple matter of putting one's thoughts into words for one's audience to put back into thoughts. This naive " code model " misses the fact that what a speaker means in uttering a sentence can be distinct in various ways from what the sentence means. She might not mean what she ...

University of Cambridge Multistep Methods on Manifolds

University of Cambridge

We survey briefly recent developments in geometric integration and numerical methods on manifolds. The underlying philosophy is that numerical methods should, whenever practicable, recover correctly known qualitative behaviour of the underlying differential system. Classical numerical methods retain invariants very poorly indeed, and this justifies the recent introduction of a new breed of disc...

University of Cambridge on Approximation by Exponentials

Spoken Document Retrieval for TREC-8 at Cambridge University

This paper presents work done at Cambridge University on the TREC-8 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track. The 500 hours of broadcast news audio was filtered using an automatic scheme for detecting commercials, and then transcribed using a 2-pass HTK speech recogniser which ran at 13 times real time. The system gave an overall word error rate of 20.5% on the 10 hour scored subset of the corpus,...