Detecting the presence of quotations in speech is a difficult task for automatic natural language understanding. This paper presents a study on the correlation between three prosodic features present in a voice command and the presence or absence of quotations. These features consist of intra-word pause durations, F0 reset and F0 continuity. A combination of lexical and prosodic extraction tool...

Managing organizational reputations is a central strategic challenge for public and nonprofit managers. Because an industry reputation is a collective good, individual organizations do not always have the incentive to promote their industry’s collective reputation. As in common property settings generally, individuals have greater incentives to boost collective reputations when consumption of t...

We propose an application for the automatic identification and categorization of quotations. The categorization is based on a semantic map of enunciative modalities. The texts are treated in three languages: Arabic, Korean and French. 1. General presentation and related works Automatic identification of quotations using natural language processing (NLP) is now significantly growing in recent st...

This paper starts by outlining relevant aspects of a view of how indexicals in general and demonstratives in particular work, after which it presents a version of Davidson’s (1979) Demonstrative Theory of quotation that I have argued for in previous work. On this form of the demonstrative view, the quoted material plays a role analogous to the demonstrated item in cases of “deferred ostension” ...

For a journal article of quality, an excellent concept and significant results are basic requirements. However, a more important factor is how to make a coherent argument. To explain the article's subject, scientific and logical discourse is necessary. In addition, appropriate quotations are needed to support the key claims because quotations situate the claims of the article within a community...

Anniversary of the founding of Resources for the Future. This paper would not have been possible without my collaboration with Kenneth Chay on a series of papers on the health impacts of airborne particulates pollution. This paper discusses some of the results from our papers, but even more importantly our collaboration has sharpened my thinking about empirical work and has directly influenced ...

history of the Madras Eye Infirmary and of the work of his predecessors in that institution, some of which may be here reproduced. The first quotation to be made from the old records comes from the Annual Report of the Eye Infirmary in the year of trouble 1857. It is written by Dr. J. Liston Paul, then acting for Dr. Shaw, as Superintendent of the Ej7e Infirmary. Dr. Paul gives a clear account ...

but more modest historical achievements to be justly proud of. Furthermore, these authors ‘quote’ references which are pure fabrications on the part of the authors and the original sources do not contain such statements. A corollary of such a practice is that unsubstantiated statements become repeated and copied in subsequent writings of one article to the next and so these untruths become esta...