Interpreting Texts in Various Discourses

Producing and Interpreting Debug Texts

Recognizing and Interpreting Temporal Expressions in Open Domain Texts

Since the early 1990s, when the third author was a visiting PhD student at Imperial College, he and Dov Gabbay have had many interactions. Usually over the phone, they talked about science, publishing and other initiatives, and invariably their conversations ended on a strategic note. Dov and the third author of this paper share a fundamental vision on the status and future of logic. To have a ...

Challenging the principle of compositionality in interpreting natural language texts

Interpreting 都 to TO in earlier Southern Min texts

The paper explores the polyfunctional word 都 to TO in early Southern Min texts dating back to the sixteenth century or even earlier. Unlike 都 dou in Mandarin, which mainly functions as a maximality operator, 都 to in Southern Min is chiefly used as a modal particle expressing a concessive meaning or meaning of unexpectedness as a type of conventional implicature rather than pragmatic inference. ...

Summarizing Texts at Various Levels of Detail

Summarizing document texts at various levels of detail is required for many information selection tasks. For instance, when loading and visualizing documents on small screens of handheld devices, it is important to be able to dynamically compress texts. In this article we discuss a technique of generating hierarchical topic trees of a text and to use them in various ways to build summaries of a...