Semantic lexicons are an essential resource to let many natural language process-ing applications (automatic summarization, information retrieval, automatic transla-tion, etc.) penetrate the meaning of a text. The relevance of the information gathered bythose lexicons raises a problematic question: the meaning of a word likesoap, for ex-ample, varies considerably whether it ...

ing away from terminology, these quotes straightforwardly paraphrase a syntactic passive relation between a direct object and a subject. The import of their findings is thus: the semantic role of the subject of a passive adjective is always that of the corresponding verb's deep direct object. This is exactly the conclusion that the passive sub-case of Move NP derives passive adjectives. 7.2. A ...

We extract the individual names of persons mentioned in news reportsfrom a Philippine-based daily in the English language from 2010-2012. Names areextracted using a learning algorithm that filters adjacent capitalized words and runs itthrough a database of non-names grown through training. The number of mentions ofindividual names shows strong temporal fluctuations, indicative o...

This paper studies Algorithmic Mechanism Design where the bidders are “single-parameter”(have the same private value for all desired outcomes), with a focus on Combinatorial Auctions(CA). We study four variants of the CA model: where each player desires a single bundle(“single-minded”) or he desires any one of several bundles (“multi-minded”), and where thedesired bundles are pu...

In recent years, various approaches, hierarchies and models have been developed whichclaim to adequately describe and explain the lexical and structural effects of language contact.Thomason’s Borrowing Scale (e.g. 2001) has been frequently – and critically – cited. However,works which should also be noted in this field include, among others, Johanson’s Code-CopyingModel (e.g. 20...

1.1. Let G be a simply connected semisimple group with Borel subgroup B, N = [B,B] and let H = B/N . Let g, b, n and h be the respective Lie algebras of these groups. Let G be the Langlands dual group with dual Borel B, etc. Let X be a smooth curve or the formal disc D or the formal punctured disc D×. 1.2. Recall that a g-oper over X is a G-bundle FLG = F with a reduction FLB to B and a connect...

for UCL, 27 November, 2013 Are all opposites equal – or are some more equal than others? Carita Paradis, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University At the one extreme, antonyms show up as strongly associated pairs such as long–short, heavy–light, hot–cold and good–bad along the dimensions of LENGTH, WEIGHT, TEMPERATURE and MERIT, respectively, While other pairs appear to be less obvio...

We describe an analysis of speech errors on a naming task in a man with progressive speech degeneration. Early assessment indicated naming impairments with no significant phonological or semantic impairment. To examine naming and the factors that influence speech errors, we selected 210 words varying in lexical and phonetic variables and conducted logistic regression analysis on speech error ty...

Syntax: x; y; z : Var (Internal Names or Variables) Q : Nam (External Names) e : Exp (Expressions) e ::= x j (set! x e) j (e e) j (resolve1 x Q e) j (qs-lambda ((y1 z1) (ym zm)) ((x1 Q1) (xk Qk)) (x) e) Semantic Domains: l : Loc (Locations) : Env = Var ! Loc (Environments) : Inh = Var ! Var (Inheritors) ! : Lnk = Var ! Nam (Links) : Sto = Loc ! Val (Stores) c : Cod = Val ! Env ! Sto ! (Val Sto)...