Are false implicatures lies? An empirical investigation

An Investigation for Implicatures in Chinese : Implicatures in Chinese and in English are similar !

Implicit opinions are commonly seen in opinion-oriented documents, such as political editorials. Previous work have utilized opinion inference rules to detect implicit opinions evoked by events that positively/negatively affect entities (goodFor/badFor) to improve sentiment analysis for English text. Since people in different languages may express implicit opinions in different ways, in this wo...

False starts What lies ahead?

I don’t know whether anybody else has noticed the distinct decline in recent years of cases of scientific fraud, plagiarism and other deviations of our noble profession. It seems to me that about a decade ago not a week passed without screaming headlines of faked experiments, cooked results and the lifting of other people’s work. I have been thinking about possible reasons for the decline since...

Are Scalar Implicatures Computed Online?

Since Horn (1972) the notion of conversational implicature proposed by Grice has been put to use to explain certain interpretive differences between expressions in natural language and their counterparts in formal logic. For example, the sentences in (1) seem to convey more than they would be expected to if the natural language disjunction or had the same meaning as the logical disjunction∨, or...

An Empirical Investigation

Nonexpert peer-based knowledge refinement, it turns out, is just as helpful as expert-centric knowledge refinement for improving the quality of results. 83 Knowledge management (KM) repository-based systems (such as those involving " best practices " and " lessons learned " applications) are generally costly to operate since they require expert judgment to determine which knowledge submissions ...

An Investigation of False Memory 1 Running head: FALSE IMPLICIT MEMORY An Investigation of False Memory in Perceptual Implicit Tasks