The humour found in short jokes and their often equivalent newspaper cartoons graphic representations are often dependent on the results of ambiguity in human speech. The ambiguities can be unexpected and funny. Sometimes wellknown ambiguities cooperatively repeated can also be funny. Captioned cartoons often derive their humour from an unexpected ambiguity that can be understood by a listener ...

Visualization Module of Vijjana, a Pragmatic Model for Collaborative, Self-organizing, Domain Centric Knowledge Networks Suhasini Kalluru Humans are capable of doing many things, but a computer cannot. This happened to be a word in the past. Now the world is heading towards a Semantic Web. The Semantic Web was originated from the thoughts of Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the WWW, URIs, HTTP, and...

In the process that has come to be called the "construction of knowledge," what is it, exactly, that gets made? How much control over the product do the "constructors" actually have? And to what extent is that which is "known," i.e., the product of the inquiry, dependent upon that which is outside the control of the knowledge seekers? One might take it that the pragmatic view on these matters c...

Limited health research capacity in one of the factors that prevents developing countries from attaining optimal health outcomes and achieving the Millennium Development Goals. We report here, the details of a workshop on pragmatic knowledge translation trials for Cameroonian researchers, the material covered and additional resources to support capacity development. At the end of this workshop,...

A framework for a structured representation of semantic knowledge (e.g. word-senses) has been defined at the IBM Scientific Center of Roma, as part of a project on Italian Text Understanding. This representation, based on the conceptual graphs formalism [SOW84], expresses deep knowledge (pragmatic) on word-senses. The knowledge base data structure is such as to provide easy access by the semant...

Since Austin introduced the term infelicity, the linguistic literature has been ooded with its use. Today, not only performatives that fail are considered infelicitous but also utterances that are syntactically, semantically, or pragmatically ill-formed. However, no formal or computational explanation has been given for infelicity. This thesis provides one for those infelicities that occur when...