In some cases, even a whole theory may be regarded as a constituting an analysis. For example, Russell’s celebrated theory of definite descriptions may be viewed as an analysis of that formal concept which in natural language can be expressed by means of the definite article. Analyses are also called philosophical, real, or simply analyzing definitions. This is appropriate, since analyses are i...

The paper examines some of the characteristic features of natural language interaction with a database system and its implications for the processing of singular definite descriptions. Some proposals are made for assessing the uniqueness claim of the singular definite article in the context of retrieval from a relational database. Other standard assumptions such as the extensional evaluation an...

The modulational instability (MI) of plane waves in nonlocal Kerr media is studied for a general response function. Several generic properties are proven mathematically, with emphasis on how new gain bands are formed through a bifurcation process when the degree of nonlocality, sigma, passes certain bifurcation values and how the bandwidth and maximum of each individual gain band depends on sig...

This paper presents an information retrieval system for the NTCIR-7 information retrieval for question answering task. This system is composed by three parts: (1) Query processing (2) Retrieval model (3) Re-rank module. Query processing filters stop-words and selects query terms to generate a required term set for further retrieval. Threes retrieval models from two famous retrieval systems are ...

By generalizing the notion of location of a constituent to allow discontinuous Ioctaions, one can describe the discontinuous constituents of non-configurational languages. These discontinuous constituents can be described by a variant of definite clause grammars, and these grammars can be used in conjunction with a proof procedure to create a parser for non-configurational languages.

Large CP-violation effects can occur for time-evolved B decays into definite CP eigenstates. The rates into these unique CP eigenmodes are tiny. This article advocates the use of many additional modes that are not CP eigenstates because of mixtures of angular momenta. Naively, for those modes a partial and sometimes large cancellation of the CP asymmetry occurs. However, a detailed study of the...