Whether we deal with foundations or computation, logic relates questions and answers, typically formulas and proofs: a very entangled relation due to the abuse of presuppositions. In order to analyse syntax, we should step out from language, which is quite impossible. However, it is enough to step out from meaning: this is why our first lighting of logic is that of answers: it is possible to de...

How can an enterprise, such as Sloterdijk defines in his You Must Change Your Life and its satellite The Art of Philosophy, be “Enlightenment-conservative”? That is the question leading these reflections on key terms that contain both works nuce – practice course, but also perspective retrospective, transition, extension, explicitation, turn, return, quarter turn –, shed light Sloterdijk’s non-...

This study quantitatively investigated the subtitling of Islamic religious expressions in Ar-Risalah’s movie “The Message” English. It elicits audience's reaction regarding into The quantitative results indicated that conveyed meaning adequately. However, there are also technical issues affect watching translated movies, such as position, font, size, shadow, background color accompanying transl...

Concept hierarchies are semi-structured knowledge repositories used for organizing large amounts of documents. File systems, products taxonomies for the market place and the directories provided by Web portals are common examples of concept hierarchies. We take the perspective in which such knowledge sources are inherently distributed and we address the problem of allowing their interoperabilit...

In this paper, we analyse alignment discrepancies for discourse structures in English-German parallel data – sentence pairs, in which discourse structures in target or source texts have no alignment in the corresponding parallel sentences. The discourse-related structures are designed in form of linguistic patterns based on the information delivered by automatic part-of-speech and dependency an...