Quotation as a multimodal construction

Does “‘Quotation’” Quote “Quotation”?

Getting a precise and accurate understanding of the mechanism of quotation is broadly important to contemporary philosophy, impacting on numerous research areas, and it’s deeply important, being foundational to truth-theoretic semantics (Saka 1998, 1991). It is gratifying, therefore, to see an upsurge in quotation studies that includes at least nine doctoral dissertations in the past fifteen ye...

Multimodal Construction Grammar

Clustering construction on a multimodal probability model

In 2009, Yu et al. proposed a multimod al probability model (MPM) for clustering. This paper makes advanced clustering constructions on the MPM. We first reconstruct most existing clustering algorithms, such as the k-means, fuzzy c-means, possibilistic c-means, mean shift, classification maximum likelihood, and latent class methods, by establishing the relationships between these clustering alg...

A Lexicon of French Quotation Verbs for Automatic Quotation Extraction

Quotation extraction is an important information extraction task, especially when dealing with news wires. Quotations can be found in various configurations. In this paper, we focus on direct quotations introduced by a parenthetical clause, headed by a “quotation verb”. Our study is based on a large French news wire corpus from the Agence France-Presse. We introduce and motivate an analysis at ...

Collaborative Construction of Multimodal Utterances

The papers in this volume demonstrate the pervasiveness of multimodal utterances. The collaborative construction of utterances is also well known. In this chapter we explore utterances that are both multimodal and collaboratively constructed; in particular, utterances in which the gesture of one participant stands in a relation of mutual elaboration with the talk of another participant. Drawing...