In goal-directed proofs, such as those used in HOL, tactics often must operate on one or more speciic assumptions. But goals often have many assumptions. Currently there is no good way to select or denote assumptions in HOL88. Most mechanisms are sensitive to inconsequential changes or are diicult to use. Denoting assumptions by lters (matching) makes it easier to maintain large proofs and reus...

Following a general line explored by Bolinger, Reinhart, Levinson and Schein, we seek to derive Condition C of the Binding Theory from a Gricean maxim of minimization (Minimize Restrictors!), which specifies that a definite description the A B is deviant if A could be dropped without affecting (i) the denotation of the description, and (ii) its various pragmatic effects. Thus the small (America...

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The research summarizes the knowledge of dimensions and denotations T.V advertisement; its constituents for building it through semiotic approach an ad sample represented by announcement Zain Kuwait Telecom Company which carries title "Mr. President" using Roland Barth's approach, starting with designation, implicit, linguistic reading to reach narrative features their denotations. That makes t...

Despite their simple syntactic form, adjective-noun combinations seem to have no straightforward semantic method that parallels the simplicity of the syntax. This has led to the conventional belief that adjectives belong to a (semantically motivated) hierarchy. This has the consequence that a uniform treatment of adjectives is unattainable—without resorting to notions such as possible worlds, w...

Dependency-based Compositional Semantics (DCS) provides a precise and expressive way to model semantics of natural language queries on relational databases, by simple dependency-like trees. Recently abstract denotation is proposed to enable generic logical inference on DCS. In this paper, we discuss some other possibilities to equip DCS with logical inference, and we discuss further on how logi...