Abstract In this theoretical paper, we consider the notion of semantic competence and its relation to general language understanding—one most sough-after goals Artificial Intelligence. We come back three main accounts involving (a) lexical knowledge; (b) truth-theoretic reference; (c) causal chains in use. argue that all are needed reach a meaning artificial agents suggest they can be combined ...

A distributional method for part-of-speech induction is presented which, in contrast to most previous work, determines the part-of-speech distribution of syntactically ambiguous words without explicitly tagging the underlying text corpus. This is achieved by assuming that the word pair consisting of the left and right neighbor of a particular token is characteristic of the part of speech at thi...

Part-of-speech tagging is the process of associating each word in a text with it’s part-of-speech category and possibly a set of morphosyntactic features. This information is represented by part-of-speech tags. This paper describes an implementation of a part-of-speech tagger for Swedish based on the Brill method. The basic idea is to apply a set of rules to an initial annotation achieved using...

Tulving (1966) reported part-to-whole negative transfer in free recall on unrelated words, suggesting that the subjective organization induced by the part list persevered and was nonoptimal for the whole list. The present study first replicated Tulving's result with singleword presentations, finding too that Ss clustered their whole-list recall according to old vs. new items (suggesting perseve...

The separating words problem asks for the size of the smallest DFA needed to distinguish between two words of length ≤ n (by accepting one and rejecting the other). In this paper we survey what is known and unknown about the problem, consider some variations, and prove several new results.

Previous studies have shown that average fixation duration is different depending on what task a person is performing. Our goal was to find out whether or not one’s reading speed would affect their average fixation duration during a visual search. We collected data on 11 different participants, first measuring reading speed, measured in words per minute (wpm), by having them read a sample passa...