In this paper we describe an automatic analysis based on Abstract Interpretation that discovers potential sharing relationships among the data structures created by an imperative program. The analysis is able to distinguish between elements in inductively deened structures and does not require any explicit data type declaration by the programmer. In order to construct the abstract interpretatio...

The development of larger scale natural language systems has been hampered by the need to manually create mappings from syntactic structures into meaning representations. A new approach to semantic interpretation is proposed, which uses partial syntactic structures as the main unit of abstraction for interpretation rules. This approach can work for a variety of syntactic representations corresp...

The roles and effects of changes in syntax on comprehension and processing effort, and the relationships between these two, comprise a large and separate field of inquiry, with the general belief now in place that such changes and variations bring about varied psycholinguistic and discursive implications for comprehension, manifesting themselves differently in different genres.The current study...

Civil engineering structures are difficult to model accurately and this challenge is compounded when structures are built in uncertain environments. As consequence, their real behavior is hard to predict; such difficulties have important effects on the reliability of damage detection. Such situations encourage the enhancement of traditional approximate structural assessments through in-service ...

Ptychography is an electron diffraction technique in which Bragg reflections are interfered coherently in order to measure the phases of diffraction orders directly. Two simple reconstruction methods exist, which require different degrees of coherence in the illuminating electron beam. Simulations on InP <110> for two electron accelerating voltages suggest that the asymmetric ‘dumbbells’ can be...

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) has the potential to provide quantitative and reliable data on the real condition of structures, observe the evolution of their behaviour and detect degradation. This paper presents two methodologies for model-free data interpretation to identify and localize anomalous behaviour in civil engineering structures. Two statistical methods based on i) moving princi...

The paper presents our work on the automatic reconstruction of complete LOD3 building models. Existing LOD2 models are refined by adding 3D façade geometry with explicit semantic information to the planar facades. Aiming at robust and realistic façade structures, independent of the quality and availabilty of sensor data, object knowledge in the form of a grammar is automatically inferred and ap...

Interpretation with Alien Expressions

A central but still unsettled question in formal theories about discourse interpretation is: What are the key theoretical structures on which discourse interpretation should depend? If we take our cue from theories that analyze the meanings of individual sentences, the meaning of the discourse's parts should determine the meaning of the whole; some sort principle of compositionality of meaning ...