Pre-understanding – our presuppositions of reality underlies all research. Many researchers probably also draw productively on their pre-understanding in studies. However, very few rationales and methodological resources exist for how can enrich research by mobilizing more actively systematically. We elaborate propose a framework actively, systematically visibly bring forward use it as positive...

Guiding Inferences in Discourse Processing Zusammenfassung Semantic interpretation is an essential component of natural language understanding which draws on extremely eecient language-based inference techniques. Such techniques are still lacking in computational systems for natural language processing. We have investigated specialized representation formalisms and suitable inference techniques...

Many knowledge-based systems of semantic interpretation rely explicitly or implicitly on an assumption of structural isomorphy between syntaotic and semantic objects, handling exceptions by ad hoc measures. In this paper I argue that constraint equations of the kind used in the LFG-(or PATR-)formalisms provide a more general, and yet restricted formalism :in which not only isomorphic correspond...

This article describes an intelligent computerassisted language instruction system that is designed to teach principles of syntactic style to students of English. Unlike conventional style checkers, the system performs a complete syntactic analysis of its input, and takes the student's stylistic intent into account when providing a diagnosis. Named STASEL for Stylistic Treatment At the Sentence...

The proper interpretation of prepositions is an important issue for automatic natural language understanding. We present an approach towards PP interpretation as part of a natural language understanding system which has been successfully employed in various NLP tasks for information retrieval and question answering. Our approach is based on the so-called MultiNet paradigm, a knowledge represent...