What makes some words easy for infants to recognize, and other words difficult? We addressed this issue in the context of prior results suggesting that infants have difficulty recognizing verbs relative to nouns. In this work, we highlight the role played by the distributional contexts in which nouns and verbs occur. Distributional statistics predict that English nouns should generally be easie...

Halldén complete modal logics are defined semantically. They have a nice characterization as they are determined by homogeneous Kripke frames.

This paper describes FrameNet (Lowe et al., 1997; Baker et al., 1998; Fillmore et al., 2002), an online lexical resource for English based on the principles of frame semantics (Fillmore, 1977a; Fillmore, 1982; Fillmore and Atkins, 1992), and considers the FrameNet database in reference to the proposed ISO model for linguistic annotation of language resources (ISO TC37 SC4 )(ISO, 2002; Ide and R...

This paper introduces Vignette Semantics, a lexical semantic theory based on Frame Semantics that represents conceptual and graphical relations. We also describe a lexical resource that implements this theory, VigNet, and its application in text-to-scene generation.

The first part of the paper proposes a formal foundation of a theory of frames. Frames are embedded into a general ontology. On this background, we introduce a formal model-theoretic semantics for frames and thereby an interface to formal semantics. The model-theoretic semantics allows us to define central notions of frame theory such as the “satisfaction type” for a node in a given frame, and ...

Abstract Construction Semantics (CxS) uses FrameNet frames to capture the semantic properties of grammatical constructions. It closes a gap between Frame and usage-based Grammar as well providing uniform format implement into constructicographic work. This article provides an overview three core features CxS. Starting point is (i) modeling associated with constructions in terms types frames. ma...

Propositional frame-based modeling is one of the most effective methods cognitive linguistics. This method considers interaction between semantic and aspects units two typologically different languages, e.g. Russian Chinese, in order to study way language structures reflects human knowledge experience. are same for all but they implemented differently every language. The authors used propositio...

For a long time, syntacticians and semanticists have been seeking a way to integrate semantic analysis into syntactic parsing, or inverse; because they have realized that understanding cannot be fully explained simply with syntax or semantics. Categorial Grammarians devoted a lot to extend the expressiveness of CG, but they missed a point what behinds the scene is meanings rather than grammar r...

one of the modern paradigms to develop an application is object oriented analysis and design. in this paradigm, there are several objects and each object plays some specific roles in applications. in an application, we must distinguish between procedural semantics and declarative semantics for their implementation in a specific programming language. for the procedural semantics, we can write a ...