BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:ILLC Website X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2007/newsitem/1841/30- May-2007-Computational-Linguistics-Seminar-Reinhar d-Blutner DTSTAMP:20070506T000000 SUMMARY:Computational Linguistics Seminar, Reinhar d Blutner ATTENDEE;ROLE=Speaker:Reinhard Blutner DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20070530T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20070530T000000 LOCATION:Room P.327, Euclides Building, Plantage M uidergracht 24, Amsterdam DESCRIPTION:Classical truth-functional semantics a nd almost all of its modifications have a serious problem in treating prototypes and their combinati on. Though some modelling variants can fit many of the puzzling empirical observation, their explana tory value is seldom noteworthy. Reinhard Blutner will argue that the explanatory inadequacy is due to the Boolean characteristic of the underlying se mantics, which only allows mixing possible words b ut it excludes the idea of superposition crucial f or geometrical models of meanings. For more inf ormation, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/ or contact Jelle Zuidema (jzuidema at science.uva.nl) . X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n
Classical truth-functional semantics and almost all of its\n modifications have a serious problem in tr eating prototypes and their\n combination. Though some modelling variants can fit many of the puzzling\n empirical observation, their ex planatory value is seldom noteworthy.\n Rei nhard Blutner\n will argue that the explana tory inadequacy is due to the Boolean\n cha racteristic of the underlying semantics, which onl y allows mixing\n possible words but it exc ludes the idea of superposition crucial for\n geometrical models of meanings.\n
\n \n\n For more information, see \ n http://www.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/ \n or contact Jelle Zuidema (jzuidema at science .uva.nl).\n
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