We report on a case of a French-speaking patient whose performance on reading aloud single words was characteristically deep dyslexic (in spite of preserved ability to identify letters), and whose comprehension on silent sentence reading was agrammatic and strikingly poorer than on oral reading. The first part of the study is mainly informative as regards (i) the relationship between letter ide...

Abstract We suggest a model for partial diacritization of deep orthographies. focus on Arabic, where the optional indication selected vowels by means diacritics can resolve ambiguity and improve readability. Our diacritizer restores short only when they contribute to ease understandability during reading given running text. The idea is identify those uncertainties absent that require reader loo...

Sadrzadeh et al (2013) present a compositional distributional analysis of relative clauses in English in terms of the Frobenius algebraic structure of finite dimensional vector spaces. The analysis relies on distinct type assignments and lexical recipes for subject vs object relativisation. The situation for Dutch is different: because of the verb final nature of Dutch, relative clauses are amb...

Learning prosodic control for speaking Japanese is effective to reduce syntactic and lexical ambiguity and to improve the comprehensibility of learners’ spoken Japanese. Good prosody can also improve its naturalness. In the conventional curriculum however, prosody training has not been provided satisfactorily for learners partly because of scarcity of teaching materials. To facilitate prosody t...

For deriving information on text structure (in the sense of coherence relations holding between neighbouring text spans), connectives are the most useful source of evidence on the text surface. However, many potential connectives also have a non-connective reading, and thus a disambiguation step is necessary. This problem has received only relatively little attention so far. We present the resu...

This paper proposes a three-level revision model for improving badly-styled Japanese expressions, especially in the field of technical communication. The model is a mixture of the regeneration-based model and tile rewriting-based model. The first level divides tong sentences, while the second level improves several badly-styled expressions with iterative partial rewriting operations. The last l...

It is a tribute to the fruitful ambiguity of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus that there are currently at least two deeply opposed ways of reading it. On one reading, it is a work of metaphysics, which puts forward substantive claims about the nature of a language-independent reality. On this view, it provides a speculative account of what the relation between language and this independent realit...

Sentences that involve two or more plural expressions, such as numerical expressions, give rise to systematic ambiguities. For example, the sentence Two boys have three balloons can either mean that there are two boys who, between them, have three balloons (cumulative reading) or that there are two boys who each have three balloons (distributive reading). In this paper, we report the results of...

I explore some of the issues that arise when trying to establish a connection between the underspecification hypothesis pursued in the NLP literature and work on ambiguity in semantics and in the psychological literature. A theory of underspecification is developed ‘from the first principles’, i.e., starting from a definition of what it means for a sentence to be semantically ambiguous and from...