Semantics, Questions, Formal Semantics
A formal semantics for situated conversation
... any obvious way. There is also an important lack of parallel between the way in which the kind of EEU s that we have explored become integrated in a discourse structure and the means by which QUDs are posited to ...
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Questions in Dependent Type Semantics
... proof-theoretic semantics where the meaning of a sentence is given in terms of inference ...to semantics and natural language inference; we use Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG; Steedman (1996)) as a ...
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Class Formal semantics and lexical semantics, prof. B. Partee, Spring semester 2013
... In Malayalam (India) oo appears in yes/no- and alternative-questions, disjunctions, and indefinites. In Japanese the particle ka appears in interrogatives, disjunctions, indefinites. In Sinhala (Sri Lanka), the ...
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Evaluating the Meaning of Answers to Reading Comprehension Questions: A Semantics Based Approach
... This illustrates the main strengths of an under- specified semantic formalism such as LRS for prac- tical applications. All elements of the semantic rep- resentation are explicitly available on the PARTS list, with ...
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Semantics and Pragmatics of Cantonese Polar Questions: an inquisitive approach
... truth-conditional semantics, both p _ ¬ p and q _ ¬ q are true in all four ...support-conditional, semantics, on the other hand, the two sentences are distinguished as follows: The information state de- ...
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Implementation of EasyTime Formal Semantics using a LISA Compiler Generator
... The flexibility of the measuring system is a crucial objective in the development of universal software for measuring time in sporting competitions. Therefore, the domain-specific language EasyTime was formally designed, ...
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Japanese alternative questions and a unified in-situ semantics for "ka"
... In this paper, I proposed a unified analysis of indefinites, wh-questions and disjunctions involv- ing the particle ka in Japanese. According to the analysis, ka is analyzed as an operator that always projects a ...
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Which Semantics for Neighbourhood Semantics?
... different semantics, originally introduced in [Montague, 1968; 1970] and [Scott, 1968] in a different ...alternative semantics uses the notion of neighbourhoods to define the meaning of the epis- temic ...
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Formal Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages Kenneth Slonneger pdf
... Generally, this parse function will not be one to one. The token lists for the expressions “a+b-c” and “(a+b-c)” map to the same abstract syntax tree. The main point of abstract syntax is to omit the details of physical ...
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Semantics, pragmatics, and formal thought disorders in people with schizophrenia
... to semantics and pragmatics; when there is an alteration in this level, symptoms of FTD appear, with a wide-ranging relationship between both language and ...
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Formal aspects of workflow management, Part 1: Semantics
... or after e). His e < f means that if both events e and f happen, then e precedes f. This work describes a formalism and its intended usage, but gives no formal semantics. The semantics is ...
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Taboo Semantics
... lexical semantics are not emphasized. The semantics is based on a conventional ontology of events and individuals who partici- pate in them and interact with each ...
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An Operational Semantics for DFM, a Formal Notation for Modeling Asynchronous Web Services
... operational semantics of a DFM specification describes the possible behaviours of a system of inter- related web services, in terms of the messages that can be exchanged during the execution of one or more ...
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On compositional semantics
... On compositional semantics On compositional semantics W I o d e k Z a d r o z n y I B M Research T J W a t s o n R e s e a r c h C e n t e r Y o r k t o w n H e i g h t s , N Y 10598 W L O D Z @ WATSO[.] ...
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Semantics of Paragraphs
... This is achieved by introducing a new type of logical theory consisting of an object level, corresponding to the content of the paragraph, a referential level, which is a new logical lev[r] ...
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Cooking with Semantics
... Note that the context may include the ingredient list itself, as illustrated by the elided arguments to be added in the one-line recipe “Add to a cocktail glass in the order listed.” Arg[r] ...
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R for semantics
... the basis of a very abstract theory of automata' At this point it is necessary for us' having said so much about theoperationalapproach,totrytoindicatemorepreciselywhatconstitutesagenuin[r] ...
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Inquiry Semantics: A Functional Semantics of Natural Language Grammar
... This paper characterizes inquiry semantics, shows how it factors text generation, and describes its exemplification in NigeL The resulting description of inquiries for English has three [r] ...
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Some Puzzles of Politeness and Impoliteness within a Formal Semantics of Offensive Language
... to semantics articulates the constraints that the world has to satisfy in order for relevant expressions to be correctly interpreted as true or false, polite or ...
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Discourse Semantics Meets Lexical Field Semantics
... Discourse Semantics Meets Lexical Field Semantics D i s c o u r s e S e m a n t i c s M e e t s L e x i c a l F i e l d S e m a n t i c s B e a t e F i r z l a f f a n d D a n i e l a S K u n z G e r[.] ...
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