We argue that the mathematics developed for the semantics of computer languages can be fruitfully applied to problems in human communication and action.

This article is concerned with the physicality of envy primarily in early -modern, but also in eighteenth-century health contexts. The discussion brings together descriptions of the effects of envy on the body of the envier, mainly from works of physiology and health preservation, but also from literary and spiritual writings. These depictions of envy are studied beyond their symbolism and with...

Notions of disambiguation supporting a compositional interpretation of ambiguous expressions and reeecting intuitions about how sentences combine in discourse are investigated. Expressions are analyzed both inductively by breaking them apart, and co-inductively by embedding them within larger contexts.

We aim at formalizing the notion of distin-guishability. Intuitively, distinguishability refers to the transitions between diierent levels of detail with which diierent agents refer to the same objects. We frame our work within the notion of contexts, as a way to provide agents with local reasoning capabilities and to express their compati-bilities. We believe distinguishability plays an import...

Anchor text has been shown to be effective in ranking[6] and a variety of information retrieval tasks on web pages. Some authors have expanded on anchor text by using the words around the anchor tag, a link-context, but each with a different definition of link-context. This lack of consensus begs the question: What is a good link-context? The two experiments in this paper address the question b...

I would like to acknowledge and thank Professor Gail Murphy (UBC) for her thoughts and guidance.

Imagining Musha: Historical Violence and the Politics of Representation Michael Berry University of California, Santa Barbara [email protected] It was during the height of the Japanese colonial period in Taiwan, and virtually all forms of armed resistance had long been suppressed. But all of that changed one fall morning in Musha (Wushe), a small town nestled deep in the mountains of cen...

Library developers often have to deal with client compatibility issues across versions of a library that are identical in their API specification. The reason for this can often be traced to some unspecified assumptions made by the client about the behaviour of exported library functions. Earlier work in this direction includes [4] . One could partially address this problem by analyzing the data...

P.F. Strawson proposed in the early seventies a threefold distinction regarding how context bears on the meaning of ‘what is said’ when a sentence is uttered. The proposal was somewhat tentative and, being aware of this aspect, Strawson himself raised various questions to make it more adequate. In this paper, we review Strawson’s scheme, note his concerns, and add some of our own. We also defen...