In this paper, we describe The Attribute Logic Engine (ALE) and enhancements to it that enable it to serve as a complete grammatical infrastructure for applications such as spoken language translation. We indicate how ALE was expanded and combined with off-the-shelf speech components to develop an application that translates English speech to German speech. The translation operates by way of a ...

The SI family of uniand multiprocessors is &n extremely high performance but relatively inexpensive generzJ purpose set of digital proceauing systems being developed for the most demanding National security applications. A typical S-1 system consists of from one to sixteen S-1 uniprocessors sharing up to 4 gigawords of uniformly addres~ed main memory. Each uniprocessor of the current (Mark IIA)...

The paper presents a novel existential account of the additive particle too. The analysis is based on a combination of compositional DPLstyle dynamic semantics and pragmatic reasoning. The existential presupposition is formalised in a dynamic semantics for too, while pragmatic principles control for correct resolution of the parallel reference made. The main empirical challenge addressed in the...

We propose a cognitively and linguistically motivated set of sorts for lexical semantics in a compositional setting: the classifiers in languages that do have such pronouns. These sorts are needed to include lexical considerations in a semantical analyser such as Boxer or Grail. Indeed, all proposed lexical extensions of usual Montague semantics to model restriction of selection, felicitous and...

Gestures and speech interact. They are linked in language production and perception, with their interaction contributing to felicitous communication. The multifaceted nature of these interactions has attracted considerable attention from the speech and gesture community. This article provides an overview of our current understanding of manual and head gesture form and function, of the principle...

Question answering (QA) systems are sensitive to the many different ways natural language expresses the same information need. In this paper we turn to paraphrases as a means of capturing this knowledge and present a general framework which learns felicitous paraphrases for various QA tasks. Our method is trained end-toend using question-answer pairs as a supervision signal. A question and its ...

This paper presents a corpus-based investigation of the use of zero pronouns in Hindi. After establishing that the antecedents of these null arguments cannot be recovered syntactically (Rizzi, 1982; Jaeggli & Safir, 1989), I propose an account in terms of "Centering Theory" (Grosz et al., 1995). Given the Hindi-specific centering constraints proposed in Prasad & Strube (2000), I argue that the ...

Before the corporate entity of A T & T was broken up so that hungry predators could sweep up the fragments and take over the telecommunications industry, it was affectionately known as “Ma Bell.” I recall as a youngster hearing its radio advertisement that told us, over and over, “we’re all connected.” And indeed we are all connected. No one exists in isolation. We start out in life developing ...

In the theory presented here, discourse relations are equated with coherence relations. The relata are taken to be sets of events or entities introduced into the discourse, as in SDRT (Asher, 1993). Our empirical studies of commentary, narrative and news texts have shown that coherence relations are frequently signaled syntactically or semantically rather than lexically. In a full natural langu...

We visualize the structure of sections of the World Wide Web by constructing graphical representations in 3D hyper-bolic space. The felicitous property that hyperbolic space has \more room" than Euclidean space allows more information to be seen amid less clutter, and motion by hyper-bolic isometries provides for mathematically elegant navigation. The 3D graphical representations, available in ...