Aspects of semantic interpretation, such as quan-tiier scoping and reference resolution, are often realised computationally by non-monotonic operations involving loss of information and destructive manipulation of semantic representations. The paper describes how monotonic reference resolution and scoping can be carried out using a revised Quasi Logical Form (QLF) representation. Semantics for ...

Learning probabilities (p-concepts [13]) and other real-valued concepts (regression) is an important role of machine learning. For example, a doctor may need to predict the probability of getting a disease P [y|x], which depends on a number of risk factors. Generalized additive models [9] are a well-studied nonparametric model in the statistics literature, usually with monotonic link functions....

We consider spatial databases that can be defined in terms of polynomial inequalities, and we are interested in monotonic transformations of spatial databases. We investigate a hierarchy of monotonicity classes of spatial transformations that is determined by the number of degrees of freedom of the transformations. The result of a monotonic transformation with k degrees of freedom on a spatial ...