Walking With Meaning

Walking With Meaning

Physical activity is beneficial for people with dementia, but little research explores subjective experiences of physical activity in this population. Interpretive description guided the analysis of 26 interviews conducted with 12 people with dementia. Three themes described the subjective meaning of everyday physical activity: Participants were attracted to activity because it improved physica...

Deductions with Meaning

In this paper, we consider some of the problems that arise if automated reasoning methods are applied to natural language semantics. It turns that out that the problem of ambiguity has a strong impact on the feasibility of any theorem prover for computational semantics. We briefly investigate the different aspects of ambiguity and review some of the solutions that have been proposed to tackle t...

Computing with Meaning

Let’s go back to Van Benthem’s chapter. There, we saw many examples of everyday scenarios of communication in action, ranging from very simple ones (such as asking for directions) to far more intricate ones where the flow of information is far from immediately obvious (such as cryptographic protocols). Understanding these scenarios from a logical point of view requires increasingly more sophist...

Aging with Meaning

Gesture with Meaning

Embodied conversational agents (ECA) should exhibit nonverbal behaviors that are meaningfully related to their speech and mental state. This paper describes Cerebella, a system that automatically derives communicative functions from the text and audio of an utterance by combining lexical, acoustic, syntactic, semantic and rhetorical analyses. Communicative functions are then mapped to a multimo...