We present preliminary results concerning the use of lexical clustering algorithms to acquire the kind of lexical knowledge needed to resolve definite descriptions, and in particular what we call ’inferential’ descriptions. We tested the hypothesis that the antecedent of an inferential description is primarily identified on the basis of its semantic distance from the description; we also tested...

Despite the idiosyncrasies of null-complement phenomena observed by Fillmore (1986), many researchers have pursued large-scope, single-factor explanations, in particular, based on Aktionsart (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998) and selectional restrictions (Resnik 1993). We argue instead for a limited implicational regularity tying the interpretation type of an omitted argument to the frame membershi...

the study of lexical similarities is one of the most important issues in religious text interpretation without which the comprehension of the holy quran is almost impossible. this domain of scholarship dates back to the beginning of the islamic era, and great scholars, before and after tabarsi, have taken it into consideration. the number of quranic homophones and similarities in some books pub...

The compositionality idea is the idea that semantic interpretation proceeds in two steps. Simple expressions are interpreted by means of lexical rules, which assign meanings to them directly. Complex expressions are interpreted by means of compositional rules, which assign meanings to them indirectly, as a function of the meanings of their parts. For any simple expression , the associated lexi...

Infants must develop both flexibility and constraint in their interpretation of acceptable word forms. The current experiments examined the development of infants' lexical interpretation of non-native variations in pitch contour. Fourteen-, 17-, and 19-month-olds (Experiments 1 and 2, N = 72) heard labels for two novel objects; labels contained the same syllable produced with distinct pitch con...

Translation debates have continued to be passionately argued. The study of the connection between philosophy and translation on one hand ambiguity in other both been growing. is unavoidable inevitable. Notwithstanding, philosophers not tackled question directly; general has indirectly by some philosophers. Ambiguity a fertile field investigate. written sentences problematic since they are trans...

A categorial semantics for Lexical-khmctional Grammar provides a means for semantic interpretation of sentences of natural language that is appropriately constrained both syntactically and semantically. The f-structure of LFG provides a cross-lingnistically uniform format for representing syntactic information; constraining a derivation with respect to the f-structure rather than a phrase struc...

The formal architecture of Lexical Functional Grammar offers a particular formal device, the structural correspondence, for modularizing the mapping between the surface forms of a language and representations of their underlying meanings. This approach works well when the structural discrepancies between form and meaning representations are finitely bounded, but there are some phenomena in natu...

This paper investigates whether the fundamental linguistic insights and intuitions of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), which is usually presented as a “constraintbased” linguistic theory, can be reformulated in a “resource-sensitive” framework. In the approach investigated here, LFG’s f-descriptions are replaced with expressions from a multi-modal propositional logic (with permutation and limi...

Learning from clinical experience (whether during formal research or in the course of patient care) is impeded by mainly two processes: bias and chance. Medical research results many times become inconclusive because some bias is detected after the results are available. A dictionary definition of ‘bias’ is ‘a onesided inclination of the mind. In statistics, ‘bias’ is ‘systematic error’ that ca...