The paper focuses on some inferential elements in EFL learning Mbujimayi. More specifically, the study points out differences occurring English sound production of /t/, /dʒ/, /ʒ/, /ð/, /v/, and /θ/ by Ciluba speaking learners. After discussing findings obtained from observation questionnaire, it has been discovered that learners’ prior linguistic knowledge justifies errors they make this regard...

We present a manually constructed seed lexicon encoding the inferential profiles of French event selecting predicates across different uses. The inferential profile (Karttunen, 1971a) of a verb is designed to capture the inferences triggered by the use of this verb in context. It reflects the influence of the clause-embedding verb on the factuality of the event described by the embedded clause....

The paper presents an experiment aiming at verifying whether the rich connectivity of two Italian Language Resources, ItalWordNet and CLIPS, can be exploited to support inference for Question Answering. The methodology for the creation of primitive inferential rules from the ItalWordNet and CLIPS semantic relations is described. We also introduce some preliminary results about the usefulness of...

Relevance theory is a new way which attempts to show the nature of communication. Based on the classic code-model and Grice’s inferential model, relevance theory holds “every act of ostensive communication communicates the presumption of its own optimal relevance.” With the interpretation of advertising in the frame of relevance theory, this thesis shows advertising communication is ostensive-i...

The paper shows how the explicit content of communication, that is ”what is said” by a speaker, is obtained via inferential processes based on speaker’s goals. The proposal of the paper is based on the hypothesis that meaning in use depends on extra-semantic interests of speakers with regard to a specific situation. Elsewhere it is argued how interests affect on sentences of natural language wh...

In this essay we advance the view that analytical epistemology and artificial intelligence are complementary disciplines. Both fields study epistemic relations, but whereas artificial intelligence approaches this subject from the perspective of understanding formal and computational properties of frameworks purporting to model some epistemic relation or other, traditional epistemology approache...

Two multivariable inferential feed-forward control strategies are proposed in this paper. In the first strategy, the effects of disturbances on the primary process variables are inferred from uncontrolled secondary process variables that are measured on-line. In the second approach, the effects of disturbances on the primary process variables are inferred from the manipulated variables for thos...