[PDF] Top 20 From the Pessimistic Induction to Semantic Anti-realism

... widely-held semantic views about reference, presupposition, and ‘open texture’ concepts, many theoretical claims of previous scientific theories are neither true nor ...consider semantic anti- ... See full document

... But one need not be a devout descriptivist about names and natural kind terms to reject the view that atomic sentences with non-designating names or natural kind terms are truth- valueless. One could accept that the ... See full document

... the pessimistic induction argument are many from the realist camp, among them one argument that has been put forward which has been highly supported, it is ‘structural realism’ by John ...by ... See full document

... the Pessimistic Meta-Induction must ultimately be ...for realism (namely the No Miracles Argument) relies on a notion of successfulness (and how hard that is allegedly to achieve), the end results of ... See full document

... rect semantic role (see M`arquez et ...of semantic role ...portable semantic role labelers that re- quire overall less engineering ...formalizes semantic role induction as a graph ... See full document

... frame induction are not high, we argue that this is primarily due to very high granularity of FrameNet frames which is hard to reproduce for unsupervised systems, as the implicit supervision signal is not ca- ... See full document

... This task (and consequently Word Sense Disam- biguation itself) is often tackled using methods that are able to group similar words together, in order to perform a clustering over the neighbors of the target, and thus to ... See full document

... morphology induction by combining various induced information sources: the semantic relatedness of the affixed forms using a Latent Semantic Analysis approach to corpus- based semantics (Schone and ... See full document

... and pessimistic, where in the latter transactions never ...high-performing pessimistic TMs can be ...a pessimistic software TM algorithm, namely, an algorithm proposed by Matveev and ...this ... See full document

... This approach has been shown to successfully ac- quire useful extraction patterns which, when added to an IE system, improved its performance (Yangar- ber et al., 2000). However, it relies on an assump- tion about the ... See full document

... using semantic class knowledge that is au- tomatically acquired from a version of the Penn Treebank in which the noun phrases are labeled with their semantic ...induced semantic class ... See full document

... Creating a language-independent meaning representation would benefit many cross- lingual NLP tasks. We introduce the first un- supervised approach to this problem, learn- ing clusters of semantically equivalent English ... See full document

... The induction step and the disambiguation step are based on the same principle: words and contexts are mapped to a limited number of topical dimensions in a latent semantic word ... See full document

... for gold and MaltParser analyses, respectively. We observe that consistently through the four regimes, sharing of alternations between predi- cates captured by the coupled model outperforms the factored version, and that ... See full document

... frame induction method based on topic model- ...it from word-context co-occurrence ma- trices to tensors factorized with a polyadic decom- ...triples from the FrameNet corpus, using the im- ... See full document

... Our models are trained on 24 million tokens and 1 million sentences from the North American News Text corpus (Graff, 1995). We use MATE (Bj¨orkelund et al., 2009) to parse the dependency tree and identify ... See full document

... scientific induction as well, and they along with liberal Enlightenment figures “assumed that the universe was governed by a rational system of laws guaranteed by an all-wise and benevolent ... See full document

... The parsing process is defined in terms of conditional actions: procedural specifications for monotonic tree growth. These take the form both of general structure-building principles (computational actions), putatively ... See full document

... internal realism, although internal realism is not the only possible route into the former ^ ...internal realism with the second- order view that, for language-games to be possible, their players ... See full document

... up from the relations of before and after we should not take him to be denying the reality of passage or the transitory aspect of time, nor need he be interpreted as claiming that the passage of time is an ... See full document