... hypotheses of latent vectors forthe definition of bank#n#12 Learning Latent Semanticsof Definitions2.1 IntuitionGiven only a few observed words in a definition,there are many hypotheses of latent ... construct a sensesimilarity by latent semanticsof sense definitions.6 ConclusionsWe construct a sense similarity wmfvec from the la-tent semanticsof sense definitions. Experiment re-sults ... funded by the Of ce of the Di-rector of National Intelligence (ODNI), IntelligenceAdvanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA),through the U.S. Army Research Lab. All state-ments of fact, opinion...
... representation of physical objects from the two-level semanticsof Bierwisch and Lang. In particular the dimensions of the process of conventwnal imagery are used as a metric for the design of our ... imagery. The first section of this paper introduces the semantics of projective prepositions (eg. "in front of& quot;, "behind", "left of& quot;, "right of& quot;), illustrating ... depictions of verbal spa- tial descriptions. Our approach draws on the ideational view of linguistic semantics developed by Ronald Langacker in his theory of Cognitive Grammar, and the conceptual...
... duration of each of these actions. 65 Defining the Semanticsof Verbal Modifiers in the Domain of Cooking Tasks Robin F. Karlin Department of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania ... meaning of frequency adverbials is best captured by stating the length of the intervals between repe- titions of the action. For example, the meaning of occasionally is that the number of minutes ... linguistic study of recipes was con- ducted with the goals of delimiting the scope of the cooking domain, identifying important verbal mod- ifiers, and defining the semanticsof those modifiers....
... selection of co-occurrences is part of the lexical pro- cess, in other words, if there are reasons not to choose a co- occurrence because of the presence of modifiers or because of stylistics ... an offence, dance marathon, marriage ceremony object of derision LSFs and Inheritance We take advantage of 1) the semantics encoded in the lexemes, and 2) an in- heritance hierarchy of ... called a collocate of it Collocation is the occurrence of two or more words within a short space of each other in a text". The prob- lem is that with such a definition of collocations,...
... logic time-dependency of infor- mation enters into the definition of the notion of a proposition. Propositions are defined as functions from a set of times TI to the set of truth values true ... and Semantics of Tense In the previous sections I have focused on the semantic and pragmatic aspects of my analysis of temporal expressions, that concern in particular the feature of narrow ... context. One of the counterarguments that one may raise against this context-dependent aspect of my analysis of temporal semantics concerns the fact that tracking the salience of objects and...
... the semantics of the complex word is structure shared with the semantics of the head. (Riehemann, 1993) found that subcategorization frames were incompatible with her data. Instead of a ... CompositionM semantics for resul- tative separable prefix constructions in German. In Proe. HPSG 4. 527 tions; the frequency of application and acceptability of results also indicate its degree of ... thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester. B. Mayo, M T. Schepping, C. Schwarze, and A. Zal- fanella. 1995. Semantics in the derivational mor- phology of Italian: implications...
... However, their approach to semantics cannot be imported wholesale. They avoid the general theoretical problem of what a semanticsof natural language should consist of by an operational approach ... the architecture of the software outlined. Finally, the relative place of syntactic, semantic and real- world knowledge in conceptual modellingwas discussed, and the adaptation of a database ... each source of knowledge makes in conceptual modelling. Syntax. Martin (1984) has observed that there is a simple mapping of surface syntactic categories onto the components of ER modelling....
... ev- idence of state change are less approximate (say in chemistry), it is not clear that it is always one of the clauses that is performing the role of establishing the truth of the sentence. ... Karlin's second category "duration of repetition of an action". The name "duration of an action" conflates the concept of the basic action and its repetition. The sepa- ... the use of domain knowledge into ac- count, to give a more general analysis. From the point of view of repetition, what we are given is a stopping condition, that is coded in terms of two...
... field of a record; vzzern, which returns the size of its argument, which is assumed to be a set; sum, which returns the sum of '.'-s list of inputs; aug, which returns the average of ... heuristics based upon the sorts ofconceptual relationships that can occur in the "layered" domains of interest [1]. Finally, the macro file contains the meanings of modifiers, roughly in ... Ballard, B. and Lusth, J. The design of DOMINO: a knowledge-based information retrieval processor for office enviroments. Tech. Report CS-1984-2, Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University,...
... TYPE OFCONCEPTUAL OPERATIONS ? The conceptual operations of NL we intend to interpret are, for instance, Indlvldustions of objects, evaluations of objects, evaluations of properties of objects, ... kinds of memory, etc. Let us introduce a new example. The adjective is one of the more conlplex phenomena of NL which cannot be reduced to the notion of predicate since it triggers a set of ... Figure 3 This type of phenomena can be investigated by deeply exploiting the structure and the semantics of SI-Nets. The structure of a role can be used as configuration of objects which are...
... L and sets of lists of members of D to predicates in L, the length of a list being equal to the number of arguments in the predicate to which it corresponds; and (f} is a set of functions, ... interpretation ~ of L is a triple <D, R, (~}>, where D is a set of individuals, the domain of ~; R is~ function, the interpretation function of I, that assigns members of D to individual ... there is a set of functions that are entirely implicit in Figure 6. Since (19) generates a value of s from a value of y, and (20) generates a value of b from that value of s, there is an...
... the feature systems of GPSG [15], LFG [2] and PATR-II [17]. All of them turn out to be specializations of our do- main D of descriptions. Figure 1 provides a summary of two of the most critical ... have approached the problem of analyzing the meaning of grammar formalisms by applying the techniques of denotational semantics taken from work on the semantics of computer languages. This ... merely provides feature-value assignments. Informally, we can think of elements of D as directed rooted graphs and of elements of F as their unfoldings as trees, the unfolding being given by the...
... an issue of control. 2This role of intention in the use of language is one of the reasons for calling the semantics in this paper a functional semantics Another is our uSe of one of the "functional" ... representing the official policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of Ihe Air Force Office of Scientific Research of the U.S Government. active coordination of many kinds of knowledge ... Character of Inquiry Semantics In this section we compare inquiry semantics to other kinds of semantics, and also identify the nature of meaning in this framework. 8.1 Comparative Semantics...
... assumptions, we will revise our definition of insist in (3). We introduce an I,CP (i.e. soma,J- tic type), REPOffFING VERB, which spells out the core semanticsof reporting verbs. It also makes ex- ... LDOCE but only hinted at in MWDP, is an important part of the meaning of insisl. In a careful analysis of a 250,000 word text base of TIME magazine articles from 1963 (TIMEcorpus) [Berglerg0a] ... suppositional and not part of the lexicai entry itself. In this process we observed that the analysis of se- mantic collocations can serve as a measure of seman- tic closeness of words. Acknowledgements:...