In this paper we investigate some questions about coordination and interpretation which have been addressed by bidirectional Optimality Theory (Bi–OT). We consider examples from anaphora resolution, and there especially the role of epistemic contexts and expectations. We look at communicative acts as joint projects following H.H. Clark (1996) and model them by using multi–agent systems with joi...

This paper describes a probabilistic logic reasoning system for traffic scenes based on Markov logic network, whose goal is to provide a high-level interpretation of localisation and behaviour of a vehicle on the road. This information can be used by a lane assistant agent within driver assistance systems. This work adopted an egocentric viewpoint for the vision and the reasoning tasks of the v...

A guideline to the interpretation of pulmonary function tests, published 20 years ago, made a distinction between the related tasks of “(1) the classification of the derived values with respect to a reference population... and (2) the integration of the spirometric values into the diagnosis, therapy and prognosis for an individual patient.” [1]. The first of these is very straightforward, when ...

The effective use of finite element systems relies on the availability of physical modeling and result interpretation capabilities. However, reliable computer tools that assist in the modeling and interpretation tasks are still inexistant. In this paper, we investigate some issues underlying the development of an integrated knowledge-based structural analysis assistant and propose an architectu...

Interpretation of human activity is primarily known from surveillance and video analysis tasks and concerned with the persons alone. In this paper we present an integrated system that gives a natural language interpretation of activities where a person handles objects. The system integrates low-level image components such as hand and object tracking, detection and recognition, with high-level p...

Interpretation. The basic idea of abstract interpretation is to simplify and omit all calculations that do not directly influence the execution costs. For example, instead of computing a numeric value, it is only computed whether it is positive or negative, thereby speeding up the execution of the program to be examined. While having the attraction of being very general, one major disadvantage

Learning by imitation is an essential process in human cognition. Recently, imitation learning has also become important in robotics research. We address the problem of learning by imitation in interactive, robotic agents using case-based reasoning. We describe two tasks for which case-based reasoning may be used: (i) interpretation, in which the robot interprets new skill demonstrations as bei...

This paper discusses the semantic content of syntactic dependencies. We assume that syntactic dependencies play a central role in the process of semantic interpretation. They are defined as selective functions on word denotations. Among their properties, special attention will be paid to their ability to make interpretation co-compositional and incremental. To describe the semantic properties o...

Noun compounds are abundant in English and their interpretation is crucial for many natural language processing tasks. We propose a method for automatic two-noun noun compound interpretation that searches for suitable paraphrases in static corpora and then issues Web search engine queries to validate them. Native speakers were recruited to evaluate the returned paraphrases for noun compounds: t...