We propose a unified model of syntax and discourse in which text structure is viewed as a tree structure augmented with anaphoric relations and other secondary relations. We describe how the model accounts for discourse connectives and the syntax-discourse-semantics interface. Our model is dependency-based, ie, words are the basic building blocks in our analyses. The analyses have been applied ...

The ground routing problem consists in scheduling the movements of aircraft on the ground between runways and parking positions while respecting operational and safety requirements in the most efficient way. We present a Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) formulation for routing aircraft along a predetermined path. This formulation is generalized to allow several possible paths. Our model takes in...

Formulas to predict presidential greatness on the Maranell index were constructed for 29 presidents from Washington to L. Johnson. When a Zeitgeist variable, derived from the historian A. M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s (1986) work on the public purpose-private interest cycle of American political history, served as the initial predictor and stepwise selection was made from a personological pool and then...

The loss of regular case endings in modern German has led to highly syncretic noun paradigms that neutralise many of the distinctions retained in more conservative determiner and adjective paradigms. Genitive and dative are, for all intents and purposes, the only cases marked in noun paradigms. Strong nonfeminine nouns have a genitive singular in -s. Strong nouns whose plural ends in a schwa or...

In the normal presentation of the EPR problem a comparison is made between the (weak) Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics which seems to suggest that at times action at a distance may take place, and the hidden parameter interpretation which must satisfy Bell’s inequality, in contradiction to the predictions of quantum mechanics. In this paper, we consider a relativistic approach to ...

In the Copenhagen interpretation the Heisenberg inequality ∆Q∆P ≥ ~/2 is interpreted as the mathematical expression of the concept of complementarity, quantifying the mutual disturbance necessarily taking place in a simultaneous or joint measurement of incompatible observables. This interpretation was criticized a long time ago, and has recently been challenged in an experimental way. These cri...

This paper reviews some of the literature on philosophy quantum mechanics. The publications involved tend to follow similar patterns first identifying mysteries, puzzles or paradoxes world, and then discussing existing interpretations these matters, before authors produce their own interpretations, side with one views. will show that all mechanics involve elements apparent weirdness. They sugge...

Interpretation: a Semantics-Based Tool for Program Analysis Neil D. Jones DIKU, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Flemming Nielson Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark