Abbott, Haxby Agnew, Jennifer Aiken, Alice Andrioli, Angie Arya, Neil Bainbridge, Lesley Bath, Brenna Bayley, Mark Bishop, Annette Blackstock, Felicity Boe, Shaun Brunton, Laura Butcher, Scott Camden, Chantal Camp, Pat Carvajal, Jennifer Chan, Zachary Cheifetz, Oren Chung, Frank Cleaver, Shaun Collins, Jennifer Cott, Cheryl Dean, Elizabeth Debigaré, Richard Desveaux, Laura Dickerson, Clark Dick...

In American Sign Language (ASL), conjunction (‘and’) and disjunction (‘or’) are often conveyed by the same general use coordinator (transcribed as “coord"). So the sequence of signs mary want tea coord coffee can be interpreted as ‘Mary wants tea or coffee’ or ‘Mary wants tea and coffee’ depending on contextual, prosodic, or other lexical cues. This paper takes the first steps in describing the...

In assessing the veridicality of utterances, we normally seem to assess the satisfaction of conditions that the speaker had been concerned to get right in making the utterance. However, the debate about assessor-relativism about epistemic modals, predicates of taste, gradable adjectives and conditionals has been largely driven by cases in which seemingly felicitous assessments of utterances are...

Both full-text information retrieval and large scale parsing require text preprocessing to identify strong lexical associations in textual databases. In order to associate linguistic felicity with computational efficiency, we have conceived FASTR a unification-based parser supporting large textual and grammatical databases. The grammar is composed of term rules obtained by tagging and lemmatizi...

The distribution of indefinite singular generics is much more restricted than that of bare plural generics. The former, unlike the latter, seem to require that the property predicated of their subject be, in some sense, “definitional”. Moreover, the two constructions exhibit different scopal behavior, and differ in their felicity in conjunctions, questions, and expressions describing the speake...

This paper deals with predicates that allow both collective and dis-tributive construals when combined with a plural subject. I present evidence that even on the collective construal, these predicates entail downward from groups to their members, and use this result as the basis of an attempt to resurrect Har-nish's pragmatic analysis of exhaustiveness ((Harnish, 1976]). I then incorporate the ...

We study a model in which lifetime individual felicities are derived from both present and past consumption streams. Each of these streams is discounted, the former forward in the usual way, the latter backward. This discounting method is timeinconsistent, and implies constant regrets by the individual. We assume that an individual at date t evaluates consumption programs according to some weig...

End-to-end evaluations of more conversational dialogue systems with naive users have uncovered severe usability problems that, among other things, result in low task completion rates. First analyses suggest that these problems are related to the system’s dialogue management and turn-taking behavior. This paper starts with a presentation of experimental results, which shed some light on the effe...

Dictionaries constructed using distributional models of lexical semantics have a wide range of applications in NLP and in the modeling of linguistic cognition. However when constructing such a model, we are faced with range of corpora to choose from. Often there is a choice between small carefully constructed corpora of well-edited text, and very large heterogeneous collections harvested automa...