Computational models of referring such as those of Kronfeld (1990) and Heeman & Hirst (1995), being based on the view of language as goal-directed behaviour, assume that the act of referring includes making the hearer recognize the speaker's communicative goal. My present work centres on the question of how we recognize an expression as a referring expression, i.e. how do we know that the use o...

Compositionality is undoubtedly one of the hardest problems in linguistics. In decoding theories, speaker occupies a leading role, having to carefully choose form that better encodes meaning be communicated. contrast, inferential burden shifted from hearer: linguistic information typically underspecifies and hearer must make number inferences bridge gap between what said meant. this article, I ...

This paper outlines research on processing strategies being developed for a language understanding systerN, designed to interpret the structure of arguments. For the system, arguments are viewed as trees, with claims as fathers to their evidence. Then understanding becomes a problem of developing a representative argtmlent tree, by locating each proposition of the argument at its appropriate pl...

Hilary Valdez, MS, is a Survivor Outreach Services Coordinator for the U.S. Army in Tokyo, Japan and provides services that support the Families of Fallen Soldiers. He conducts support groups and life skills training to the community and leadership. My reassignment to the desolate, harsh environment of the Mojave Desert came as quite a shock. Leaving my family to join sturdy, hard core Marines ...

BACKGROUND Medical outliers present a medical, psychological, social, and economic challenge to the physicians who care for them. The determinism of Stoic thought is explored as an intellectual basis for the pursuit of a correct mental attitude that will provide aid and comfort to physicians who care for medical outliers, thus fostering continued physician engagement in their care. DISCUSSION...

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This paper discusses the evaluation of a Generation of Referring Expressions algorithm that takes structural ambiguity into account. We describe an ongoing study with human readers.

We call approaches which use decision theoretic explications of Grice’ relevance maxim for selecting best answers and calculating implicatures relevance scale approaches. In this paper we discuss these approaches with respect to the questions: Are intuitively optimal assertions identical to assertions with maximal relevance? Can classical relevance implicatures be explained by the assumption th...

Abstract. This paper explores the possibility of applying Database Semantic (DBS) to textual databases and the WWW. The DBS model of natural language communication is designed as an artificial cognitive agent with a hearer mode, a think mode, and a speaker mode. For the application at hand, the hearer mode is used for (i) parsing language data into sets of proplets, defined as non-recursive fea...