The semantic annotation of dialogue corpora permits building efficient language understanding applications for supporting enjoyable and effective human-machine interactions. Nevertheless, the annotation process could be costly, time-consuming and complicated, particularly the more expressive is the semantic formalism. In this work, we propose a bootstrapping architecture for the semantic annota...

We consider first order modal logic C firstly defined by Carnap in “Meaning and Necessity” [1]. We prove elimination of nested modalities for this logic, which gives additionally the Skolem-Löwenheim theorem for C. We also evaluate the degree of unsolvability for C, by showing that it is exactly 0′. We compare this logic with the logics of Henkin quantifiers, Σ1 logic, and SO. We also shortly d...

John McCarthy, famous for his role in the development of time-sharing, for inventing the computer language LISP, for his foundational work in theory of computation, and for his founding of the fields of artificial intelligence and knowledge representation, was concerned for much of his career with what he termed drosophilae: small challenge problems that highlighted characteristic aspects of in...

People the world over know about your academic and medical accomplishments. I would like to share with your colleagues, the Mel that in the 1980s I got to know and spend time with outside the laboratory (although science and how science can benefit “your” babies was just a breath away in anything we did). The time I really got to talk with Mel outside the Harvard confines was when I first roome...

The decline in renal function seen in a variety of pathological states is associated with an increase in the number and changes in the protein synthetic activity of tubular interstitial cells. However, the relationship between expansion of the interstitial compartment (interstitial fibrosis) and loss of renal epithelial tubules and capillaries remains unclear. Interstitial pathologies accompany...

The aim of this thesis is to investigate if it is possible to support people attending large events in sharing their experiences by use of mobile devices. The work has been done to investigate if it is technical possible to support people in sharing experiences. Based on the findings a model supporting people in experience sharing has been proposed, ExpShare. ExpShare also incorporates support ...

Over the past few decades, the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the diagnosis of equine lameness has revolutionized our understanding of what used to be termed ‘navicular disease’. Prior to MRI, navicular disease was diagnosed primarily by a positive response to palmar digital nerve blocks (PDNB) and identification of characteristic radiological findings; particularly changes...

Five years later, Bernie and his family moved to La after a year-long struggle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Jolla, not only to continue his prolific scientific career To me, he was not only a much admired colleague, at TSRI, but to assume important leadership positions esteemed scientist, broad-ranging intellectual, and vi-that would leave an indelible mark on the quality and sionary educator; f...

Successful suckling is vital to the survival of mammalian newborns. In many mammals, nursing behavior is triggered by maternally derived odors. Such odors may also promote the learned association of odorant cues present in the environment during nursing.