Multidimensionality of concepts in multidisciplinary domains is a problem terminographers have to deal with. We apply Corpus Pattern Analysis (CPA; Pustejovsky, Hanks, & Rumshisky, 2004) to extract conceptual dimensions according to context. The dynamic nature of these concepts is exemplified with the case study of SAND. On the other hand, knowledge patterns (KPs) often convey different concept...

Touching the 3rd Dimension (Dagstuhl Seminar 12151) Daniel Keefe, Antonio Krüger, Frank Steinicke, and Jean-Baptiste de la Rivière . . 1 Software Synthesis (Dagstuhl Seminar 12152) Ratislav Bodik, Sumit Gulwani, and Eran Yahav . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Semantic Data Management (Dagstuhl Seminar 12171) Grigoris Antoniou, Oscar Corcho, Karl Aberer, Elena...

The paper presents a prototype lexicalist Machine Translation system (based on the so-called ‘Shake-and-Bake’ approach of Whitelock (1992)) consisting of an analysis component, a dynamic bilingual lexicon, and a generation component, and shows how it is applied to a range of MT problems. Multi-Lexeme translations are handled through bi-lexical rules which map bilingual lexical signs into new bi...

This paper reports on my replication of the 1997 Sachs and Warner resource curse working paper. Exact pure replication is achieved. A test for statistical replication shows that some of the Sachs and Warner results attempting to determine the cause of the resource curse are not robust to the country sample. A test for scientific replication shows that findings of the resource curse are not sens...

This paper presents an analysis of indirect passives in Japanese in terms of event structure and qualia structure proposed in the framework of the generative lexicon (Pustejovsky 1995). On the assumption that the event structure of the indirect passive construction is based on the causative structure, the present analysis accounts for the adversative interpretation of indirect passive sentences...

For any minor-closed class of matroids over a fixed finite field, we state an exact structural characterization for the sufficiently connected matroids in the class. We also state a number of conjectures that might be approachable using the structural characterization. This paper is dedicated to James Oxley on the occasion of his 60th Birthday.

The famous R. James’ Theorem (see [3–7] and [8]) asserts that a Banach space E is reflexive if and only if the closed unit ball UE has the James’ property, i.e. every continuous linear functional f of E attains its supremum in UE. James’ Theorem does not hold, however, for general normed spaces [6]. We prove in this talk that a normed space X is reflexive if and only if UX has the separation pr...

Like many other early psychologists, William James was fascinated by hypnosis and related phenomena. For James, hypnosis was both an experimental technique for creating divisions of consciousness, and a laboratory model of naturally occurring disorders of awareness. James' treatment of consciousness in hypnosis presages contemporary interests in dissociation and implicit cognition, and undersco...