This article explores negation in Chinese on the basis of written and spoken corpora of Mandarin Chinese. The use of corpus data not only reveals central tendencies in language based on quantitative data, it also provides typical examples attested in authentic contexts. In this study we will first discuss negation variants in general terms, on the basis of which the focus will be shifted to the...

Inclusion of negation into logic programs is considered traditionally to be painful as the incorporation of full logic negation tends to super-exponential time complexity of the prover. Therefore the alternative approaches to negation in logic programs are studied and among them, the procedural negation as failure sounds to be the most successful and the most widely used. However, Constraint Lo...

The chapter by Rose draws a sketch of negation in Mojeño Trinitario, an underdescribed South Arawak language spoken in Amazonian Bolivia, and discusses its interaction with irrealis. It starts with presenting the different negation markers and constructions used for each negation type: sentential negation (including the expression of apprehensive, and negation in subordinate clauses), free form...

Abstract Frame semantics for negation on the Australian Plan accommodates many different negations, but it falls short accommodating subminimal when language contains conjunction and disjunction. In this paper, I will present a multi-relational frame –multi-incompatibility semantics– that can accommodate negation. first argue multi-incompatibility frames are in accordance with philosophical mot...

This paper introduces a logic ILED derived from standard intuitionistic predicate logic by adding two operators Dφ for “Definitely φ” and ~φ for “Experience rejects φ”. A further negation ¬φ =def (φ→⊥) ∨ ~φ , which we call real negation, is introduced. Real negation is like intuitionistic negation when there are no D-operators but deviates when there are. We see that Dφ ↔ φ is valid but ¬Dφ → ¬...

An overcomplete logic is a logic that ‘ceases to make the difference’: According to such a logic, all inferences hold independently of the nature of the statements involved. A negation-inconsistent logic is a logic having at least one model that satisfies both some statement and its negation. A negation-incomplete logic has at least one model according to which neither some statement nor its ne...

This paper proposes an annotation scheme for the focus of negation in Japanese text. Negation has its scope and the focus within the scope. The scope of negation is the part of the sentence that is negated; the focus is the part of the scope that is most prominently or explicitly negated. In natural language processing, correct interpretation of negated statements requires precise detection of ...

Automatic detection of linguistic negation in free text is a critical need for many text processing applications, including sentiment analysis. This paper presents a negation detection system based on a conditional random field modeled using features from an English dependency parser. The scope of negation detection is limited to explicit rather than implied negations within single sentences. A...