This paper addresses the problem of learning to map sentences to logical form, given training data consisting of natural language sentences paired with logical representations of their meaning. Previous approaches have been designed for particular natural languages or specific meaning representations; here we present a more general method. The approach induces a probabilistic CCG grammar that r...

There are many analogies between medical and judicial practice. This article explores one such analogy, “medicalization” “criminalization.” Specifically, drawing on an analogy a judge’s speech act of delivering verdict physician’s giving diagnosis, it suggests novel account the phenomenon “overdiagnosis.” Using this approach, we can make some headway in understanding debates over early detectio...

In the current study, the effect of removing word length variability within sentences on spatial aspects of eye movements during reading was investigated. Participants read sentences that were uniform in terms of word length, with each sentence consisting entirely of three-, four-, or five-letter words, or a combination of these word lengths. Several interesting findings emerged. Adaptation of ...

In machine translation and man-machine dialogue, it is important to clarify referents of noun phrases. We present a method for determining the referents of noun phrases in Japanese sentences by using the referential properties, modifiers, and possessors of noun phrases. Since the Japanese language has no articles, it is difficult to decide whether a noun phrase has an antecedent or not. We had ...

Introduction: To study sentence comprehension in Persian-speaking Patients with Aphasia considering the factors of complexity. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the performance of 6 non-fluent aphasic patients were tested and their performance was compared to 15 matched control group. Comprehension of semantically reversible sentences was assessed using a binary sentence-picture matching...

Purpose This study aims to examine the effects of using mobile translation applications for translating collocations. Design/methodology/approach The followed an experimental design where 47 students English as foreign language in a Saudi university were randomly categorized into two groups. Both groups given task consisting 30 sentences with fixed, medium-strength and weak participants group (...

We represent truth sets for a variety of the well known semantic theories of truth as those sets consisting of all sentences for which a player has a winning strategy in an infinite two person game. The classifications of the games considered here are simple, those over the natural model of arithmetic being all within the arithmetical class of Σ3. §

In this paper we introduce our system capable of producing semantic parses of sentences using three different annotation formats. The system was used to participate in the SemEval-2014 Shared Task on broad-coverage semantic dependency parsing and it was ranked third with an overall F1-score of 80.49%. The system has a pipeline architecture, consisting of three separate supervised classification...