abstract a title, in conveying the meaning of the entitled photo, can act from being a designator to an element which changes the meaning and its message is perceived in different levels of obtaining the photo’s final meaning. therefore, ignoring its role in interpreting the content of work is the same as eliminating a part of photo. various studies have been done centering titling issue, but t...

We describe multi-lingual text generation as an alternative to automatic translation in specified technical sublanguages, illustrating the notion with the implemented RAREAS-2 system for synthesizing marine weather forecasts in English and French. We then review the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) of Mel'cuk et al. as we have applied it to text generation in the GOSSIP system for producing English re...

In this paper we discuss the semantics of adjectives from the perspective of a Modern Type Theory (MTT) with an adequate subtyping mechanism. In an MTT, common nouns (CNs) can be interpreted as types and, in particular, CNs modified by intersective and subsective adjectives can be given semantics by means of Σ-types. However, an interpretation of CNs as types would not be viable without a prope...

Corpus-based treebank annotation is known to result in incomplete coverage of midand low-frequency linguistic constructions: the linguistic representation and corpus annotation quality are sometimes suboptimal. Large descriptive grammars cover also many midand low-frequency constructions. We argue for use of large descriptive grammars and their sample sentences as a basis for specifying higher-...

Participants in public distributed computing do not find it easy to trust each other. The massive number of parties involved, their heterogeneous backgrounds, disparate goals and independent nature are not a good basis for the development of relationships through purely social mechanisms. This paper discusses the trust management issues that arise in the context of the XenoServer Open Platform:...

The class of string languages obtained by taking the yields of output tree languages of total deterministic macro tree transducers (MTTs) is investigated. The rst main result is that MTTs which are linear and nondeleting in the parameters generate the same class of string languages as total deterministic top-down tree transducers. The second main result is a so called \bridge theorem"; it can b...

This paper describes ICL’s participation at NTCIR-9 RITE. We chose BC & MC subtask. Textual entailment is a problem to predict whether an entailment holds for a given test-hypothesis pair. We built an inference model to solve this problem by means of using dependency syntax analysis (by LTP), lexical knowledge base (e.g. CCD), web information (e.g. Baidupedia) and probability method. We used AU...

Martín Mingorance’s Functional-Lexematic Model (FLM) and Mel’c•uk’s Meaning Text Theory (MTT) are two complementary models of lexical description, which can also be applied to the description of terminological information. The FLM is compatible with general terminology theory because it envisions a lexicon structured onomasiologically in terms of areas of meaning or lexical domains. The MTT is ...

In a number of works, Rudolf Carnap provided ingenious and systematic approaches to the understanding of scientific knowledge (see, for instance, Carnap 1928, 1934, 1947, 1950a, b). As is well known, his proposals faced three important changes: (i) the early phenomenalism of the Logische Aufbau der Welt (Carnap 1928) was replaced by the physicalism of Logische Syntax der Sprache (Carnap 1934); ...