I N T R O D U C T I O N Identification of the appropriate conjuncts of the coordinate conjunctions in a sentence is fundamental to the understanding of the sentence. We use the phrase 'conjunct identification' to refer to the process of identifying the components (words, phrases, clauses) in a sentence that are conjoined by the coordinate conjunctions in it. Consider the following sentence: "Th...

The following corrections should be made to the published paper [1]: First, the sentence before Equation (50) on Page 19 should be replaced with the following text: “As a comparison point, we can also evaluate the work used in an impossible scenario where P1 varies stochastically, but the organism magically ’knows’ what each P1 is before it receives an input sampled from that P1, and then chang...

G. E. Moore famously observed that to say, I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I don’t believe that I did’’ would be ‘‘absurd’’. Why should it be absurd of me to say something about myself that might be true of me? Moore suggested an answer to this, but as I will show, one that fails. Wittgenstein was greatly impressed by Moore’s discovery of a class of absurd but possibly true assertions b...

A new tris-chelate Cd(II) complex, [Cd(DADMBTZ)3](ClO3)2 has been successfully synthesized and characterized by IR, 1H, 13C NMR spectroscopy, elemental analysis and single crystal X-ray determination. The thermal behavior, UV-Vis and fluorescence spectra of compound were studied. In reaction with DADMBTZ, Cadmium (II) forms a tris-chelate complex with nearly C3 symmetry for coordination polyhed...

The original purpose of what follows was to deal with a problem that arises for ‘pure result state’ accounts of the perfect, which treat perfects as operators that transform event and state descriptions into descriptions of corresponding result states and make these the target of location in time by tenses and temporal adverbs. In the form in which we endorsed this approach for many years ((Kam...

Introduction To know the meaning of a declarative sentence is to know what the world should be like for the sentence to be true. To know the meaning of an interrogative sentence is to know what information is needed to resolve it. Like the meaning of a declarative sentence is equated with its truth-conditions—and identified with the set of worlds satisfying these conditions—the meaning of an in...

We analyze the concept of focus in speech and the relationship between focus and speech acts for prosodic generation. We determine how the speaker’s utterances are influenced by speaker’s intention. The relationship between speech acts and focus information is used to define which parts of the sentence serve as the focus parts. We propose the Focus to Emphasize Tones (FET) structure to analyze ...

This paper describes the CMU entry for the system combination shared task at WMT’09. Our combination method is hypothesis selection, which uses information from n-best lists from several MT systems. The sentence level features are independent from the MT systems involved. To compensate for various n-best list sizes in the workshop shared task including firstbest-only entries, we normalize one o...