... (the object ofthe preposition) to their right. Further work is needed to describe the ways that various NP types interact as this was a technique for coping with the absence of a theory of ... non-monotonically. These are the pegs in the discourse model. Grosz (1977) introduced the notion of focus spaces and vistas in a semantic net representation for the similar purpose of representing the different ... their affect on the DE. In contrast, my emphasis is in tracking these representations over the course of a long dialogue; I have nothing to contribute to the theory of how they are originally...
... to the system. Dynamic model-theoretic semantics allows the evaluation of a formula to cause the addition of information to the model. This interaction ofthe evaluation of a formula and the ... other elements. If the expansion of the model is not properly managed, the result of the evaluation of such a formula can be wrong (i.e. inconsistent with the contents ofthe model). Two mechanisms ... equivalent, they would have the same element as their denotation. When an element that would distinguish the denotations of these two expressions was added to the model, the expansion of the element...
... higher the p-value attached to an operator, the closer is the interpretation of that operator in accordance with the rules of ordinary Boolean logic. On the other hand, the smaller the p-value, ... must be used. The results of Table I show that for the CACM queries the best overall policy is a complete softening ofthe Boolean operators down to p = 1. Evidently not many ofthe quasi-Boolean ... and-operator. The higher the p-value, the more similar • the corresponding operator will be to the com- pulsory Boolean and. Correspondingly, the smaller the p-value, the more relaxed is the interpretation...
... sufficient evidence for the identification of that constituent; e.g., if the leftmost daughter is either the specifier or the head of that constituent in the sense of Jacken- doff (1977). Third, ... > of S. P2 ~ ~in, on, ] Among the expressions generated by the extended grammar G2 are those in E3. (E3) a. the boss knew that the teacher saw the child yesterday b. the friend ofthe ... CFPSG. The first set is explicitly designed to preserve the property of noncenter-embedding. The second is designed to maximize the use of prefixes on the basis of being able to predict the identity...
... de-scribe the motion ofthe person and his keys while heis holding them. Then we will look at the motion of the person and his keys after he lets go of them. Let's begin by looking at the ... perception ofthe system. We find that the NM presence significantly improves user’s perception of the system in terms of their ability to concen-trate on the instruction (Q3), in terms of their ... incli-nation to reuse the system (Q6) and in terms ofthe system’s matching of their expectations (Q4). There is a trend that it was easier for them to learn from the NM enabled version ofthe system...
... the history ofthe varieties of Islam as they relate to the patrons involved. Because the latter can only respond to each other in time, the first mosque in The Netherlands as well as one of ... between the countless examples of reception ofthe one building in the other had nothing to do with a disinterested or flawed way of looking, but with the position ofthe patron and the function of ... clichés, taking on the “for-eigner” role of their own accord. […] The dome and the minaret […] thus become visible symbols ofthe opposite of integration.’34 He found that most of the new European...
... lose the element ofthe machinic centre, of subjectiveautopoiesis and self-affirmation. Whetherlocated at the level ofthe complete individualor partial subjectivity, or even at the level of social ... Guattari map out a theory andlanguage of art outside of representation. I want tonote here an interesting dovetailing of their theorywith a kind of aporia which The Social History of Art,” and ... and the difference between the two sets of categories, as follows: The only danger in all this is that the virtualcould be confused with the possible. The possi-ble is opposed to the real; the...
... &apos ;The Crucible' is clearly a representationofthe true meaning of tragedy. John Proctor was, in fact, the medium, the tool, of which Miller utilized toconvey a universal depiction of ... description also provides another outlet to convey the dynamic nature of his character. While the physical side of Proctor deterioratedtowards the conclusion ofthe story a contrast is created. ... alone is responsible for the cramping of our lives then the protagonist must needs be so pure and faultless as to force us to deny his validityas a character. From neither of these views can tragedy...
... said to interrogate the cultural construction of gender andrepresentations of identity. The video suggests a set of images to the viewer and usually these are a blurring of gender and identity. ... interrogate the construction of gender and therepresentationof identity. They do notseem to cross any boundaries. People watch soaps to relax andsomehow relate, so if they were to experiment with the ... of them. I'm all of them. I'm none of them".This shows that you cannot learn about heras a person from her videos. They are merely to view rare images of power and weakness at the...
... model. The adjective model assumes that the meaning of the composition is the same as the adjective: up= The noun model assumes that the meaning of the composition is the same as the ... with the assumption that people use adjectives to modify the meaning of the noun, rather than conjoining the meaning of the adjective and noun. In this study, we represented the meaning of ... 639Proceedings ofthe 47th Annual Meeting ofthe ACL and the 4th IJCNLP ofthe AFNLP, pages 638–646,Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009.c2009 ACL and AFNLPQuantitative modeling ofthe neural representation...
... in-termediate form ofrepresentation that represents a‘context-free’ semantics ofthe expression. The role ofthe recognition process is then tocompute as much ofthe semantic content of a tem-poral ... determined on the basis of the expression itself, producing an intermediatepartial representationofthe semantics. The role of the interpretation process is to ‘fill in’ any gaps inthis representation ... wedistinguish the two steps ofthe process in terms of the extent to which they make use of contextual in-formation in computing values. Then, recognitionis that phase which makes use only of expression-internal...
... in the following order: the intensionality of the descrip- tor, the time of reference of the descriptor, and the agents of the descriptor. We must establish the "level" of each ... application ofthe descrip- tor. The following example shows the representations of the first four readings of (8) (i.e., those with the description applied at the time ofthe utterance), ... descriptors in the target to descrip- tors in the background assumptions, we extract the relevant aspects from therepresentationof each, and express them explicitly by the use ofthe following...
... media file format. The full degree of customiza-tion ofthe video content to fit the needs of each particular application is outside the scope ofthe AVC standard, but the design ofthe NAL anticipates ... identifica-tion ofthe boundaries of NAL units within the packets can be established without the use of start code prefix patterns. However, the formatting ofthe data within the NAL units is the same, ... integer number of bytes. The first byte of each NAL unit is a header byte that contains an indication ofthe type of data in the NAL unit, and the remaining bytes contain payload data ofthe type...