... outlinedabove by introducing a very fundamental data structurecalled Initiative (Fig. 3). An initiative is a generalizationof any form of action that has a defined start and end dateand is unde rtaken ... rtaken to reach a goal. Therefore, an initiativemay be a program, a project, a sub-project, a pro ject phase, a work package, an activity or a task (indicated by theinheritance relationship between ... Their feasibility, profitability, and strategic impactare analyzed so that a final decision can be made regard-ing their implementation (Idea Evaluation). This phaseends with a formal go/no-go...
... to domain knowledge already encoded in the knowledge base of a limited domain natural language application such as a database query system. Given a hand-coded hierarchical organization of ... The Mental Representation of Grammatical Relations, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, pp.173-281 Kay, M.(198 4a) 'Functional Unification Grammar: A Formalism for Machine Translation', ... system', IBM Systems Journal, vol.21, 305- 326 Kaplan, R. and Bresnan, J.(1982) 'Lexical-Functional Grammar: A Formal System for Grammatical Representation' in J.Bresnan (dd.),...
... XQuery for XML or SQL for rela-tional databases. But these complicate query for- mulating because they are tailored to query a lowlevel data storage model rather than a high levelannotation data ... data model for PACE-Ling(Sec. 2.2). The ultimate goal of our research is tocreate a modular extensible data model for multi-layer annotated corpora. To achieve this, we aimto create a data ... XML data, such asXPath, XQuery and XSchema and where neces-sary trying to extend them, instead of creating a new data model from scratch. For the annotationaltiers, as LPath has shown, a good...
... same meaning regardless of the context (Forbes, 1989). In such a framework, all natural language quantifiers have their meaning grounded in terms of two logical operators: V (for all), and ... USA and Carelton University, School of Computer Science Ottawa, Ontario, KIS-5B6 CANADA walid@eagle.hr.att.com Abstract The purpose of this paper is to suggest that quantifiers in natural ... (1994), From Inheritance Relation to Non- Axiomatic Logic, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, (accepted June 1994 - to appear). Zeevat, H. (1989). A Compositional Approach to Discourse...
... Semantic AnnotationKatrin Erk and Andrea Kowalski and Sebastian Pad´o and Manfred PinkalDepartment of Computational LinguisticsSaarland UniversitySaarbr¨ucken, Germany{erk, kowalski, pado, ... desirable.FrameNet as a resource for semantic role an-notation. Above, we have asked about the suitabil-ity of FrameNet for semantic role annotation, andour data allow a first, though tentative, ... suit-able resource as annotation basis. FrameNet roles,which are local to particular frames (abstract sit-uations), may be better suited for the annotationtask than the “classical” thematic...
... will have a clear idea about the organization of a particular text. And what’s more, the Product Approach understands that imitation is one way in which people learn. It has contributed greatly ... as Product Approach, Process Approach and Genre Approach were reviewed and their advantages and drawbacks were drawn out so that suitable writing techniques can be picked up and inappropriate ... INPUT → PARALLEL TEXTThe use of models for text analysis and as a basis for thinking about the purposes and readership of a text can, however, have an important role to play in teaching writing....
... disease plays a keyrole in inducing plasma leakage, shock and hemorrhagic manifestations.Currently, there are no vaccines available against dengue virus, althoughseveral tetravalent live-attenuated ... World Health Organization, updated February 2006.Type of vaccinePharmaceuticalcompany orresearch groupStatus ofdevelopmentLive attenuated tetravalent vaccine Sanofi-Pasteur ⁄ Mahidol Phase ... mutant US Food and Drug Administration PreclinicalTetravalent E-NS1 fusion protein subunit Hawaii Biotech PreclinicalDNA and recombinantmodified vaccinia AnkaraNational Institute of Health...
... (2004); K & Z: Kawabata and Zeki (2004); C-C et al: Cela-Conde andcolleagues (2004).382 M. Nadal et al.the neuroanatomical correlates of aesthetic preference for paintings” (Vartanian andGoel, ... (dorsolateral), Kawabata and Zeki (2004)(orbitofrontal) and Vartanian and Goel (2004) (anterior cingulate) was associatedwith positive ratings. Additionally, in the study by Cela-Conde et al. ... obtained by Kawabata and Zeki (2004), let us recall theyfound that stimuli rated as beautiful were associated with an increased activity inthe orbitofrontal cortex, as Chatterjee (2003) had...
... definition of this logic. 4 A Logical Semantics As Pereira and Shieber [11] have pointed out, a grammatical formalism can be regarded in a way similar to other representation languages. Often it ... formula. These two forms may be regarded as notational variants for expressing the same facts. While fea- ture matrices seem to be a more appealing and natural notation for displaying linguistic ... The labels of attributes bear a superficial resemblance to modal operators. Note that no information is added or subtracted by rewriting the feature matrix of Figure 1 as a logical formula....
... here allows fora balanced extension of this very smaU core. The list//3 was chosen as the statistical core vocabulary serving as a base for applying se- mantic criteria, becat, se the overall ... claim that one can achieve a fixed point from where on no new words are added to tim set, and that at this moment one has reached a rather good approximation to a semantic core vocabu- lary. ... vocabulary which is needed for handl- ing any subject domain. 'llfis assumpti(m is also shared by many researchers, and it tmdcrlies the production of basic vocabularies for language...
... compositional. In addition, using a composition semantics in semantic interpre- tation has numerous computational advantages. The particular incarnation of a compositional se- mantics that serves as ... tiklm, Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani, Moravcsik, Julius Matthew Emil, and Suppes, Patrick Colonel, edi- tors, Approaches to Natural Language: Proceedings of the 1970 Stanford workshop on grammar and se- ... A- expressions would make the frame representation language less tractable. 3 Details of the semantics 3.1 Semantic features Three semantic objects are computed for and at- tached to each syntactic constituent,...
... information absent in surface utterances such as zero anaphora are compensated for and in some cases multiple analyses are disambiguated. (3-3), the surface analysis of (3-2), is analyzed as ... diagrams an overview of the procedure for translating speaker's meaning. In contrast to a conventional machine translation procedure, speaker's meaning can be analyzed and generated, ... syntactically by means of predicate- internal collocation, adjunction, tense, and modal information. An IFT-Schema consists of a goal whose value is a partial description of a deep IFT, and a...
... approach, one DAAOmutant was identified that has increased activity at low O2and d-Ala con-centrations and a 10-fold lower Km for O2. We report on the mechanism ofthis DAAO variant and on its ... lm)O2reveals strikingdifferences: thus, whereas at air saturation the timeprofiles that reflect O2consumption are essentially thesame for wt-DAAO and m-DAAO, at 73 lm O2m-DAAO consumes the available ... small[21]. The parameters obtained from steady-statemeasurements at [O2] = 0.305 mm (Table 1) showthat, whereas kcat for m-DAAO is smaller than for wt-DAAO, its O2affinity is significantly...
... that set. Formally, we encode our logic as an information system (Scott 1982). An information system (IS) is a triple (A, C, b) where A is a countable set of "atoms," Cis a class ... sorts. They are simi- lar to theorems proved in (Delgrande and Jackson 1991): inconsistent defaults are never applicable; while necessary ones are always applicable. The last part allows for strengthening ... LOGICAL SEMANTICS FOR NONMONOTONIC SORTS Abstract Suppose we have a feature system, and we wish to add default values in a well-defined way. We might start with Kasper-Rounds logic, and use...