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%Nr: MoL-2000-05
%Author: Patrick Yancey
%Title: Indeterminacy and Translatability
Abstract:
The Indeterminacy of Translation is the thesis, originally formulated
by Willard V.O. Quine (1953, 1960), that translation lacks empirical
controls. This means that, after considering all evidence and cr...
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Nr: MoL-2000-06
Title: Studies on the Uses and Usefulness of Diagrams}
Author: Shai Berger}
Cognitive Science as we know it today was built around linguistic
behavior. It was the research on language which brought down
Behaviorism in Cognitive Psychology and connected Psychology with
Linguistics...
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In this thesis we extend the semantics of Game Logic and introduce
some axioms to allow the description of parallel games. Game Logic,
introduced by Parikh (1985), is an extension of Propositional Dynamic
Logic. Game Logic is used to study the general structure of arbitrary
determined two-player ...
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This thesis is about the uncertainties that naturally form a part of
human communication. Language as a communication medium is inherently
ambiguous. It is generally assumed that its use is made possible by
the existence of common ground among communicating participants, but
the question of how c...
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate generative strategies for
maximizing coherence in discourse. We will outline a description of a
generative procedure for anaphoric substitution using the Optimality Theory
framework of Prince and Smolensky [P&S93] that is loosely based on earlier
a...
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This thesis is about the Edelberg asymmetry, the phenomenon that shows
up in sentences containing attitude ascriptions. It concentrates on
explaining anaphoric relations in asymmetric conjunctions and the
possibility of interpreting a sentence, which is false, under certain
circumstances as true....
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This thesis discusses the structuring of electronic information by
means of a concept hierarchy.The information to be structured is
scientific information of a unifying kind, as traditionally found in
paper handbooks. The purpose of the concept hierarchy is to serve as
an easy to use means of nav...
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The results of this thesis may be summarized as follows. In chapter 2,
we have introduced and motivated a general framework for analyzing
informational update, given by the concept of an update frame; the
main topic of this thesis was the comparison of this setting with what
seems to be the most ...
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There is a basic dichotomy in text categorization between having a
good categorizer (kNN) and low processing costs (Rocchio). We will try
to reconcile the two forces by developing centroid- or, as we prefer
to call them, prototype-based algorithms that look for similarities
and dissimilarities. T...
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This paper proposes a homogeneous pragmatic approach to the
interpretation of Polar Question also known as
yn-question. Maintaining a classical semantic interpretation of a
question as the set of its possible answers the attention will focus
on the pragmatic impact of these kinds of linguistic ob...