As these approaches are confined to representing event structural properties, the idiosyncratic lexical content is often reduced to an unanalyzed atomic root. In our talk we will demonstrate by the example of verbs of emission that a more fine-grained analysis is necessary in order to account for the semantics of these verbs. Following the traditional approach in Rappaport Hovav and Levin (2010...

Breaking away from traditional attempts at coreference resolution from discourseonly inputs, we try to do the same by constructing rich verb semantics from perceptual data, viz. a 2-D video. Using a bottom-up dynamic attention model and relative-motion-features between agents in the video, transitive verbs, their argument ordering etc. are learned through association with co-occurring adult com...

We report two experiments which address the question of whether there is support for single or dual mechanisms in the processing of Polish regular and irregular nouns and verbs. The data from an immediate cross-modal priming experiment (verbs and nouns) revealed that there was significant priming, irrespective of regularity, for both verbs and nouns. The results for verbs were replicated in a s...

In this paper we try to contribute to the body of knowledge about the acquisition of English epistemic modal verbs (e.g. Mary may/has to be at school). Semantically, these verbs encode possibility or necessity with respect to available evidence. Pragmatically, the use of epistemic modals often gives rise to scalar conversational inferences (Mary may be at school -> Mary doesn’t have to be at sc...

Dependent Type Semantics (DTS, Bekki [3]) is a framework of natural language semantics based on dependent type theory (Martin-Löf [19]). In contrast to traditional model-theoretic semantics, DTS is a proof-theoretic semantics, where entailment relations are characterized as provability relations between semantic representations. One of the distinctive features of DTS, as compared to other type-...