... the real line and defining adjacency in terms of e-neighborhoods, we get Eu- clidean space and can talk about contact between physical objects. 3.5 Material Physical objects and materials ... effort is for proving the consistency and independence of sets of axioms, and for showing their adequacy. As an example of the last point, many of the spatial and temporal theories we construct ... horizon that separates lexical semantics from philosophy. On the other hand, our experience suggests that to avoid their use entirely is crippling; the lexical semantics of a wide variety of...
... considered good in (2) and bad in (1) because of the general structure of the sentence and the oppo- sition between "little" and "a little". In (3) and (4), the robbery ... sentence and a discursive environment, operators constrain argu- mentative power, and modifiers constrain only ar- gumentative orientation and strength. In addition, connectives and operators ... Polyphony and Argumentative Semantics Jean-Michel Grandchamp* LIMSI-CNRS B.P. 133 91403 ORSAY CEDEX FRANCE kMevala@limsi.fr...
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... MRSs.Standard MRS. Standard MRS requires threefurther extensions: (i) qeq -semantics, (ii) top-handles, and (iii) event variables. These extensionsare less relevant for our comparision.The qeq -semantics ... C1 and C2:C1 The graph of M is a tree of solid edges: (i) allhandles are labels i. e.,arg(M)=/0 and M con-tains no handle constraints, (ii) handles don’tproperly outscope themselve, and ... each other.Let M be an MRS and h, hbe handles in M.Wesay that h immediately outscopes hin M if thereis an EP in M with label h and argument handle h, and we say that h outscopes hin...
... the handling of lexical and structural ambiguities by human parsers. Its theory of communication and the arbi- tration mechanism can explain data that modular theories of syntax andsemantics ... tax and semantics. In this article, I propose a variant of left-corner parsing to define the points at which syntax and semantics should interact, an account of grammat- ical relations and ... the commu- nication mechanism between syntax andsemantics and provide a complete and promising solution to the problem of interactive syntactic and semantic processing. Since natural languages...
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... from capture to sharing. This challenges theextraction and reasoning as well as the modeling and exchange of content and semantics over sites and services.2.2 Music Use CaseIn recent years the ... and store data, it also becomes more difficultto access and locate specific or relevant information. This book addresses directly and inconsiderable depth the issues related to representing and ... descriptors that can be computed automatically from multimedia content and the richness and subjectivity of semantics in user queries and human interpretations ofaudiovisual media – the so-called semantic...
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