“We Speak English”

Why We Speak

We explain the relevance of Nash, Hoare and others in explaining Gricean implicature and cheap talk. We also develop a general model to address cases where communication is not cooperative, i..e cases of deception as well as cases where there is common knowledge of different interests in speaker and hearer. Tow models, one qualitative and one quantitative are introduced.

How can we speak math?

It is likely that most people can communicate mathematics to a computer more effectively (rapidly and accurately) by speaking than they can by using a stylus on a computer tablet. This may seem surprising, but is our speculation based on trying various alternative input methods. An even better setup may be to speak and simultaneously use pointing or handwriting. Unfortunately, building a proper...

Do Cajuns Speak Southern English? Morphosyntactic Evidence

What Do We Mean When We Speak About Named Entities?

The concept of Named Entity (NE) has its origin in the Named Entity Recognition and Classification (NERC) tasks, an offspring of Information Retrieval systems, and became one of the main interest points in the Sixth and Seventh Message Understanding Conference (MUC-6, MUC-7) competitions, held back in 1995 and 1998 (Cinchor, 1997; Black, 1998). From then on, most competitions and programs inclu...

Can We Speak of Ghettos in Czech Cities?

This paper covers the processes of ghettoization in socially excluded areas in the Czech Republic that are settled mainly by the Roma. I have attempted to document the logic of ghettoization using the case of an area called Poschla that emerged in Vsetín in 2006. On the basis of semistructured interviews with inhabitants and social workers, I endeavoured to find out whether Poschla was in the p...