In two experiments we investigated the extent to which individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) manage the activation of contextually appropriate and inappropriate meanings of ambiguous words during sentence comprehension. DAT individuals and healthy older individuals read sentences that ended in ambiguous words and then determined if a test word fit the overall meaning of the sent...

This article introduces an unsupervised word sense disambiguation algorithm that is inspired by the lexical attraction models of Yuret (1998). It is based on the assumption that the meanings of the words that form a sentence can be best assigned by constructing an interpretation of the whole sentence. This interpretation is facilitated by a dependency-like context specification of a content wor...

vs. Aim To provide formalization of Japanese sentence-final particles in the framework of Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) (Steedman 1996, 2000, Szabolcsi 1987). Proposal I analyze particles such as yo and ne as verum focus operators (Höhle 1992, Romero & Han 2004). Previous Work There has not been much formal descriptions of these sentence-final particles so far. • Masuoka & Takubo (1992) ...

This immediately raises the question what it is exactly that can be the object of an attitude; what kind of thing is the meaning of a sentence? Attitude reports give us a nice context in which to study this question and thus have a central importance for the semantics of natural language. However, the study of propositional attitudes mainly helps us to see what meanings are not. Unfortunately i...

Recognizing idioms in a sentence is important to sentence understanding. This paper discusses the lexical knowledge of idioms for idiom recognition. The challenges are that idioms can be ambiguous between literal and idiomatic meanings, and that they can be “transformed” when expressed in a sentence. However, there has been little research on Japanese idiom recognition with its ambiguity and tr...

Detecting idioms in a sentence is important to sentence understanding. This paper discusses the linguistic knowledge for idiom detection. The challenges are that idioms can be ambiguous between literal and idiomatic meanings, and that they can be “transformed” when expressed in a sentence. However, there has been little research on Japanese idiom detection with its ambiguity and transformations...

quran quds is a valuable text of persian language. in addition to religious benefits, this translation of quran has many linguistic advantages. some of the words of this book are old words which are rarely used in other texts. others are certainly dialectical and are not used in other texts. this article tries to exemplify some of these words which are common get in the dialects of south khoras...

“ba:y?d” as a persian lexeme is interwoven with modality, a semantic category and therefore has a complicated and thought- provoking semantic nature. this paper uses evidence from persian to investigate the usage of this lexeme and some of its semantic and pragmatic aspects in this language. the results indicate that this lexical category can convey a wide range of modal meanings in different c...

Classical logic is sometimes described as “the logic of an omniscient mind in a deterministic universe”. From an intuitive point of view the basic features of classical semantics can be summarized as follows: 1) any problem is semantically decided : for any sentence α, either α or its negation ¬α is true (excluded middle principle); at the same time, a sentence α and its negation ¬α cannot be b...