This paper is concerned with two related issues in sentence processing--one methodological and one theoretical. Methodologically, it provides an unconfounded test of the ability of the cross-modal lexical priming task, when used appropriately, to provide detailed evidence about the time-course of antecedent reactivation during sentence processing. Theoretically, it provides a study of the natur...

This paper describes the development of a multi-modal corpus based on multi-party multi-task driven common goal oriented spoken language interaction. The data consists of approximately 10 hours of audio human simulation radio data and nearly 5 hours of video and audio face-to-face sessions between human trainees and virtual agents.

the present paper sets out to investigate the syntactic category of persian modals, šâyad ‘perhaps’ and bâyad ‘must’. the syntactic category of the two modal elements has been viewed differently by different scholars. a number of scholars argue that both šâyad and bâyad are modal auxiliaries, while others claim that they both are modal adverbs. we propose that šâyad is a modal adverb and bâyad ...

Our thesis is that before Web-based agents can negotiate meanings, they need to agree on high-level protocols based on logical systems. The Semantic Web community is setting the stage for semantic interoperability among Web-based software agents by developing standard languages with well-defined semantics. But exactly how these languages might be used to negotiate meanings is an open question. ...

Many characters in written Chinese incorporate components (radicals) that provide cues to meaning. These are often partial, and some misleading because they unrelated the character’s Previous studies have shown radicals influence reader’s processing of which occur (e.g., Feldman Siok J Memory Language 40(4):559–576, 1999). We investigated whether readers automatically activate semantic informat...

In this paper, we give some elements about agent-oriented relevance. For that, we define a new modal operator R a so that R a φ means that φ is relevant for agent a concerning the request Q. We discuss properties of this new operator, as well as its extensions and limits.

We propose a computationally oriented non-monotonic multi-modal logic arising from the combination of agency, intention and obligation. We argue about the defeasible nature of these notions and then we show how to represent and reason with them in the setting of defeasible logic.

Since the turn of the millennium, Web services have pervaded the middleware industry, despite their technical limitations, their ongoing standardization, the resulting lack of stable standards, the different meanings of the term service to different people, and the fact that marketing forces have blurred the technical reality that hides behind this term. What is so special about Web services an...