Tile most common assumption about intention in discourse is that the primary intention of discourse is to eomlnunicate and receive information. This is a founding assumption of every formal model of discourse meaning that I am aware of. The standard account of meaning is that utterances are functions from contexts to contexts whose pr imary purpose is to describe the world, and whose meaning de...

Ganesh Thapa Asia and the Pacific Division International Fund for Agricultural Development The second in a series of discussion papers produced by the Asia and the Pacific Division, IFAD 2 Enabling the rural poor to overcome poverty The opinions expressed in this volume are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect official views or policies of the International Fund for Agricultural ...

Vladimir Levenshtein’s edit distance algorithm is used to reveal disparities between delimiter stripped texts of the Senate amended Treaty of Fort Laramie with Sioux, etc., 1851 as corrected in a previous study, and of other federal copies of this transaction. All of the latter deviated markedly from that newly created version, reflecting errors of exclusion, of the absence in some transcripts ...

Compared with mouse-based interaction on a desktop interface, touch-based interaction on a mobile device is quite limited: most applications only support tapping and dragging to perform simple gestures. Finger rolling provides an alternative to tapping but uses a recognition process that relies on either per-user calibration, explicit delimiters or extra hardware, making it difficult to integra...

We propose type systems that abstractly interpret small-step rather than big-step operational semantics. We treat an expression or evaluation context as a structure in a linear logic with hypothetical reasoning. Evaluation order is not only regulated by familiar focusing rules in the operational semantics, but also expressed by structural rules in the type system, so the types track control flo...

.......................................................................................................................x CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION..............................................................................1 The Problem in Perspective .............................................................................................2 Conceptual Framework................................

Probability measures by themselves are known to be inappropriate for modeling the dynamics of plain belief and their excessively s�ong measura­ bility constraints make them unsmtable for some representational tasks, e.g. in the context of frrst­ order knowledge. In this paper, we are therefore going to look for possible alternatives and ex­ tensions. We begin by delimiting the general area of i...

We present a novel, type-logical analysis of polarity sensitivity: how negative polarity items (like any and ever) or positive ones (like some) are licensed or prohibited. It takes not just scopal relations but also linear order into account, using the programming-language notions of delimited continuations and evaluation order, respectively. It thus achieves greater empirical coverage than pre...

We consider lexical operations and their representation in a uniication based lexicon and the role of lexical semantic information. We describe a uniied treatment of the linguistic aspects of sense extension and derivational morphological processes which delimit the range of possible coercions between lexemes and give a preliminary account of how default interpretations may arise.

In this paper, we present the approach we used to produce a training database from a set of recorded newscasts for which we had inaccurate transcriptions. These transcribed segments correspond to a set of prepared anchor texts and journalist stories, not necessarily in chronological order of their actual presentation. No segmental time boundary information is provided. Our main concern is thus ...