American Sign Language famously disambiguates pronoun antecedents with the use of space. In ASL, both referential and quantificational NPs can be signed at different locations (‘loci’) in the signing space. Pronouns can later retrieve these NPs by pointing at the same locus. Many analyses of ASL pronouns assume that these spatial loci are the overt realization of formal variables (Lillo-Martin ...

The scalar particle mo in Japanese gives rise to ambiguity in negative contexts. In this paper we argue that the ambiguity cannot be accounted for as a scopal ambiguity, and propose a lexical ambiguity account. In particular, we observe that the distribution of the small reading of mo is limited to a subset of NPI licensing environments, and is sensitive to presuppositions, from which we conclu...

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Integration of complex socio-technical networks is the goal and challenge for today’s organization. Surprisingly, such a central term ‘integration’ is highly ambiguous and has multiply meanings. In this paper we expose the ambiguity of the term ‘integration’ and propose an interdisciplinary analytical perspective how integration activities can be analysed and explained. We conclude that further...

Use cases are a useful and simple technique to express the expected behavior of an information system in successful scenarios or in exceptional circumstances. The weakness of use cases has been always the vague semantics of the relationships, in particular the extend relationship. The main contribution of this article is an attempt to clarify the different interpretations that can be adopted. A...

The goal of this short paper is the proposal of a Core Value Ontology, which can be used to solve the semantic ambiguity around the term Business Value. In future research, the Core Value Ontology must allow to analyze and integrate different management practices that focus on business value creation and modeling.

EXPERIMENTS with word-for-word MT of Russian scientific literature have given results which, except for such limited purposes as indexing, are far from satisfactory. The difficulty is not so much one of word order as of syntactic and semantic ambiguity of individual words. Regardless of the treatment of the problem of inflected forms, for example, it is impossible in the majority of instances t...

Afghans’ protracted displacement is a geopolitical legacy from the Cold War. Although Pakistan’s return policymaking has foreseen complete voluntary of Afghans since end War, then as now, about three million reside in Pakistan. This article advances notion calculated informality to dissolve this seeming contradiction. policymakers have excelled by successfully navigating domestic and arena over...