This paper presents a new framework to model an assessment process for a complex and multidimensional syndrome such as depression. Since the measurements of depression are inherently imprecise, we explicitly model the context of the assessment process, and we analyze various aspects of imprecision (syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic). The framework is based on fuzzy logic and semiotics. The fuz...

The paper describes intermediate and resolved logical form representations of sentences involving referring expressions and a reference resolution process for mapping between these representations. The intermediate representation, Quasi Logical Form (or QLF), may contain unresolved terms corresponding to anaphoric noun phrases covering bound variable anaphora, reflexives, and definite descripti...

This paper describes 8 translation of LOTOS and SDL specific8tion languages into executable code, 8s it was prototyped in the Specification and Progr8mming Environment for Communication Software (SPECS) project under the Research and Develo ment in Advanced communications in grope (RACE) program. Both ian uages are translated into a common intermedate representation in the form of a network of ...

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A proposal is presented for the representation of pragmatic information and for its use in decisions relating to syntactic choice. A \split discourse model" is used to represent information from the context of a discourse, and this representation is then related to the level of syntactic choice by means of \low level illocutionary acts". The alternative syntactic constructions are assumed to fo...

We present an intelligent help system for the Unix operating system called Aran. Aran is a passive, knowledge-based help system whose main goal is to help users deal with problems related to Unix operation. Aran gives the user access to different kinds of information, and it is designed to help the user accomplish a given task, while, at the same time, expanding the user's knowledge of the oper...

Successful representation and markup languages find a good balance between giving the user freedom of expression, enforcing the fundamental semantic invariants of the modeling framework, and allowing machine support for the underlying semantic structures. MKM formats maintain strong invariants while trying to be foundationally unconstrained, which makes the induced design problem particularly c...

This paper is concerned with the conceptual foundations of pragmatic reasoning (context-dependent reasoning). A general pragmatic semantics (a semantic analysis which includes a pragmatic parameter) is given for pragmatic reasoning, the logical properties of the various forms of pragmatic reasoning are discussed, as are many examples. The semantic pragmatics (the general study of choosing or in...

Although the representation of preconditions and postconditions in a non-distributed environment is clear and relatively well established, the pragmatic requirements of a distributed environment introduce some complication to the traditional implementation of programming by contract (PBC))10]. In this paper we discuss and review the common deenition of an object interface in relation to distrib...

The paper presents a tool for the creation of an electronic dictionary of multi-word proper names. Toposław uses graphs for the representation of inflectional and pragmatic variants of names. It cooperates with Morfeusz, a morphological analyser and generator for Polish words, and Multiflex, a cross-language morpho-syntactic generator of multi-word units. Our goal was to create a userfriendly t...