“IS That What You Mean?” Exploratory Study of Syntactic Pattern in Complement Responses

Musag an Agent That Learns What You Mean

This paper presents a system that carries out highly eeective searches over collections of textual information, such as those found on the Internet. The system is comprised of two major parts. The rst part consists of an agent, MUSAG, that learns to relate concepts that are semantically \similar" to one another. In other words, this agent dynamically builds a dictionary of expressions for a giv...

On Saying What You Mean without Meaning What You Say1

What Do You Mean by That?! An Electrophysiological Study of Emotional and Attitudinal Prosody

The use of prosody during verbal communication is pervasive in everyday language and whilst there is a wealth of research examining the prosodic processing of emotional information, much less is known about the prosodic processing of attitudinal information. The current study investigated the online neural processes underlying the prosodic processing of non-verbal emotional and attitudinal comp...

Seeing What You Mean, Mostly

Idealizing, a speaker endorses or rejects a (declarative) sentence Σ in a situation s based on how she understands Σ and represents s. But relatively little is known about how speakers represent situations. Linguists can construct and test initial models of semantic competence, by supposing that sentences have representation-neutral truth conditions, which speakers represent somehow; cp. Marr's...

an exploratory study of differential item functioning (dif) in efl reading comprehension

بررسی دلایل عملکرد متفاوت سوالات آزمون درک مطلب به زبان خارجی تاریخچه ی تحقیق درباره ی منابع عملکرد مختلف سوالات (دیف) در آزمون درک مطلب پر است از مجموعه ای از متغیرهای فرضیه ای که چند مورد از مهمترین آنها عبارتند از: جنسیت، آشنایی با موضوع متن، علاقه به موضوع یا محتوای متن، حدس زدن، و عوامل بافت اجتماعی (پی 2004؛ زومبو و گلین 2005). مطالعه حاضر با استناد به فلسفه ی انکارپذیری پوپر عوامل ذکر...

What Do You Mean, Coordination?∗

Coordination models and languages represent a new approach to design and development of concurrent systems. The interest in coordination has intensified in the last few years, as evidenced by the increasing number of conferences, tracks, and papers devoted to this topic, and by the recent upsurge of research activity in the theoretical computer science community in this field. The field is rela...