finding causes of connotation in sibawayh’s kitāb

Connotation Analysis

Language ambiguity as produced by humans, is often unnoticed and as such, is most of the times involuntary. In an original context, a sentence might be very clear with respect to the producer's intentions, but if it contains some unnoticed ambiguities (obliterated by the context), when put in another context, might convey a very different meaning, sometimes funny, sometimes embarrassing.

Connotation in Translation

We present a pilot study analyzing the connotative language found in a bilingual corpus of French and English headlines. We find that (1) manual annotation of connotation at the word-level is more reliable than using segment-level judgments, (2) connotation polarity is often, but not always, preserved in reference translations produced by humans, (3) machine translated text does not preserve th...

The Connotation of Musical Consonance

Finding the causes of inherited neuropathies.

T he genetic causes of inherited neuropathies and their classification are the topics of this review. The large number of disorders as well as cumbersome and even inconsistent nomenclature make this a daunting task. Owing to limited space, I will not elaborate on the clinical features or diagnostic approaches of these disorders, and the primary literature is not referenced; these topics are mor...

Object temporal connotation.

Recent studies show that what connotes an object is first of all a certain spatio-temporal structure. In this paper we describe some of the temporal features characterizing the temporal structure of objects: pre-existence, persistence, conservation of identity in spite of perceptive discontinuity, surviving changes in colour, size, and shape. We argue that time is an indispensable attribute for...

Finding Failure Causes through Automated Testing

A program fails. Under which circumstances does this failure occur? One single algorithm, the delta debugging algorithm, suffices to determine these failure-inducing circumstances. Delta debugging tests a program systematically and automatically to isolate failureinducing circumstances such as the program input, changes to the program code, or executed statements.