The issue about sentence similarity is essential to many areas of artificial intelligence. Although there are related studies on determining text similarity, fewer publications are about the similarity between short texts especially about the similarity between sentence pairs. In this paper, a novel method is proposed to estimate the sentence similarity with consideration of direct relevance an...

The interpretation of speech can be dealt with in terms of grammar, if grammatical categories are extended beyond the sentence. After briefly reviewing speech acts, discourse acts and relevance, two units are thus posited, the discourse and the text, and they are defined in strictly linguistictheoretical terms, by means of a principle of connection. Following this principle, sentences are linke...

Automatic summaries of text generated through sentence or word extraction has been evaluated by comparing them with manual summaries generated by humans by using numerical evaluation measures based on precision or accuracy. Although sentence extraction has previously been evaluated based only on precision of a single sentence, sentence concatenations in the summaries should be evaluated as well...

Contrary to a certain traditional conception dating back at least to Locke, everyday linguistic communication is not a simple matter of putting one's thoughts into words for one's audience to put back into thoughts. This naive " code model " misses the fact that what a speaker means in uttering a sentence can be distinct in various ways from what the sentence means. She might not mean what she ...

Kripke distinguishes necessity and priority as two different categories: is a notion of epistemology, while metaphysics. Based on this fundamental argument, objects to Descriptivism, which takes certain properties the criteria identity across all possible worlds, he argues for legitimacy posteriori necessary truths. also criticizes Russell’s methods dealing with empty descriptions, puts forward...

1. Introduction Resolving zero pronouns is a major problem in developing a natural language understanding (NLU) system for Thai. Since subject and object pronouns in Thai can be omitted from a sentence, an NLU system must be capable of identifying the missing subjects or objects in the sentence. This process of identifying referents for zero pronouns, which is a part of referent resolution 1 pr...