Nevada 2010: Dependency, Denial and Disaster

Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Internet Computing, ICOMP 2010, July 12-15, 2010, Las Vegas Nevada, USA

The DCU Dependency-Based Metric in WMT-MetricsMATR 2010

We describe DCU’s LFG dependencybased metric submitted to the shared evaluation task of WMT-MetricsMATR 2010. The metric is built on the LFG F-structurebased approach presented in (Owczarzak et al., 2007). We explore the following improvements on the original metric: 1) we replace the in-house LFG parser with an open source dependency parser that directly parses strings into LFG dependencies; 2...

Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition, IPCV 2010, July 12-15, 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2 Volumes

2010 Annual Meeting of the California-Nevada Section of the APS

Negation, Denial, and Rejection

At least since Frege (1960) and Geach (1965), there has been some consensus about the relation between negation, the speech act of denial, and the attitude of rejection: a denial, the consensus has had it, is the assertion of a negation, and a rejection is a belief in a negation. Recently, though, there have been notable deviations from this orthodox view. Rejectivists have maintained that nega...