Multiple occurrences of ziji in Mandarin Chinese pose a theoretical challenge which has not been met satisfactorily by previous analyses (see Huang & Liu, 2001; et al., 2009). In this paper, we employ parsing analysis the co-reference relationship between zijis and their potential antecedents within framework Dynamic Syntax (Kempson Cann 2005). Since perspective center for multiple is deter...

Semantic parsing is the task of mapping natural language sentences to complete formal meaning representations. The performance of semantic parsing can be potentially improved by using discriminative reranking, which explores arbitrary global features. In this paper, we investigate discriminative reranking upon a baseline semantic parser, SCISSOR, where the composition of meaning representations...

The IPsec protocol provides a mechanism to enforce a range of security services for both confidentiality and integrity, enabling secure transmission of information across networks. Dynamic parameterization of IPsec, via the KeyNote trust management system, further enables security mechanisms to adjust the level of security service “on-the-fly” to respond to changing network and operational cond...

Recent proposals in the domain of interface description languages for web services stress the importance of specifying the dynamic, behavioral aspects of the services. The goal of this paper is to introduce a new interface description language, called PEWS, that uses predicate path expressions to define web service behaviours. Our proposal represents a simple but expressive way to describe orde...

The Mmt language constitutes a scalable representation and interchange format for formal mathematical knowledge. It is foundation-independent and permits natural representations of the syntax and semantics of virtually all declarative languages. This is leveraged in the Mmt API, which provides a variety of generic logical and knowledge management services. In this work-in-progress report, we pr...

Starting from an analysis for the diverging crosslinguistic grammaticality of DP-internal conjunctions such as this [man and woman] are in love, the article develops a theory of the syntax/semantics interface within the DP and a novel proposal for the interpretation of conjunction. The main claims are that plural/mass denotations are built in stages within the DP, by the combined effect of numb...

LogiMOO is a BinProlog based Virtual World that provides methods for Internet users to create virtual places, virtual objects, and intelligent agents. The original design of the LogiMOO kernel provided an interactive Prolog syntax interface. In this paper, we present a LogiMOO Natural Language interface based upon Assumption Grammar and Hidden Accumulator theory. This paper is electronically av...

This paper shows an application of four neural networks architectures for the automatic adaptation of the voice interface to a robotic system. These architectures are flexible enough to allow a nonspecialist user to train the interface to recognize the syntax of new commands to the teleoperated environment. The system has been tested in a real experimental robotic system applied to perform simp...

In this paper, we describe a system which is capable of utilizing a variety of knowledge sources to select the most appropriate parse for a spoken sentence. These knowledge sources include syntax, semantics, and contextual information. We discuss one way to utilize contextual information when determining a parse for a sentence. Our definition of a context is defined by which computer applicatio...