Collecting spontaneous speech corpora that are open-ended, yet topically constrained, is increasingly popular for research in spoken dialogue systems and speaker state, inter alia. Typically, these corpora are labeled by human annotators, either in the lab or through crowdsourcing; however, this is cumbersome and time-consuming for large corpora. We present four different approaches to automati...

c. ∃e∃e′∃e′′∃s [causation(e) ∧CAUSE(e, e′) ∧ EFFECT(e, e′′) ∧ activity(e′) ∧ EFFECTOR(e′, x) ∧ change-of-state(e′′) ∧ RESULT(e′′, s) ∧ broken-state(s) ∧ PATIENT(s, y)] Case study: the English dative alternation (1) a. John sent Mary the book. (double object, DO) b. John sent the book to Mary. (prepositional object, PO) Traditional decompositional analysis: (2) a. [ [x ACT] CAUSE [z HAVE y] ] (c...

Sir, I read with great interest the review article on Lhermitte’s sign by Khare and Seth.[1] The sign occurs, inter alia, in multiple sclerosis, in traumatic lesions of the cervical cord, and in subacute combined degeneration. I agree that very few studies are available on Lhermitte’s sign and there is need of more research in this particular field. In this current review, treatment with extrac...

In 2 experiments the authors investigated how verb choice in question formulation influences respondents' answers. These studies show that (a) as hypothesized, the choice of verb type (action vs, state) in forming a question influences interviewees' narratives systematically by impacting, inter alia, which individual is implicitly described as the causal originator of a social event; (b) interv...

We introduce a new approach to the rapid numerical application to arbitrary vectors of certain types of linear operators. Inter alia, our scheme is applicable to many classical integral transforms, and to the expansions associated with most families of classical special functions ; among the latter are Bessel functions, Legendre, Hermite, and Laguerre polynomials, Spherical Harmonics, Prolate S...

General relativity poses serious problems for counterfactual propositions peculiar to it as a physical theory. Because these problems arise solely from the dynamical nature of spacetime geometry, they are shared by all schools of thought on how counterfactuals should be interpreted and understood. Given the role of counterfactuals in the characterization of, inter alia, many accounts of scienti...

In 1968 I prepared and started my thesis study on “Prematurity and the Eye” [1]. A Danish cohort of prematures born between 1959 and 1961 were examined around the age of 10 years and compared with full-term controls. The aim of the study was to assess the ophthalmic cost of prematurity. The preliminary focus was inter alia on refraction and refractive parameters, and my advisors emphasized no l...

The inefficiency of the Italian judicial system has contributed to reduced investments, slow growth, and a difficult business environment. The enforcement of civil and commercial claims suffers from excessive delays in court proceedings, resulting in a very large number of pending cases. The Italian authorities have, over the years, taken steps to remove bottlenecks and speed up judicial procee...

We propose a probabilistic type theory in which a situation s is judged to be of a type T with probability p. In addition to basic and functional types it includes, inter alia, record types and a notion of typing based on them. The type system is intensional in that types of situations are not reduced to sets of situations. We specify the fragment of a compositional semantics in which truth con...

Background/Purpose: In the context of the European Biodiversity policy, the Green Infrastructure Strategy is one supporting tool to mitigate fragmentation, inter-alia to increase the spatial and functional connectivity between protected and unprotected areas. The Joint Research Centre has developed an integrated model to provide a macro-scale set of indices to evaluate the connectivity of the N...