On partially conservative sentences and interpretability

Construction of sentences with specific interpretability properties

A construction is presented for generating sentences that satisfy a recursively enumerable set of interpretability properties. This construction is then used to prove three previously announced results concerning the lattice of local interpretability types of theories (also known as the Lattice of Chapters). The purpose of this paper is to prove three theorems originally announced without proof...

Active Learning for Dependency Parsing Using Partially Annotated Sentences

Current successful probabilistic parsers require large treebanks which are difficult, time consuming, and expensive to produce. Some parts of these data do not contain any useful information for training a parser. Active learning strategies allow to select the most informative samples for annotation. Most existing active learning strategies for parsing rely on selecting uncertain sentences for ...

Preliminary Notes on Interpretability Logic

Some Sentences on Our Consciousness of Sentences

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Phases and Interpretability

We adopt a theory of relativisation based on the idea that relatives, like wh-constructions in the analysis of Chomsky (1998), require two sorts of features to construct their LF-interpretation. We argue that it is the variable interpetability of these features that gives rise to different syntactic patterns. We use this theory to provide an explanation for some curious syntactic facts found in...