This article introduces an unsupervised word sense disambiguation algorithm that is inspired by the lexical attraction models of Yuret (1998). It is based on the assumption that the meanings of the words that form a sentence can be best assigned by constructing an interpretation of the whole sentence. This interpretation is facilitated by a dependency-like context specification of a content wor...

This paper presents a lexical model dedicated to the semantic representation and interpretation of individual words in unrestricted text, where sense discrimination is difficult to assess. We discuss the need of a lexicon including local inference mechanisms and cooperating with as many other knowledge sources (about syntax, semantics and pragmatics) as possible. We suggest a minimalist represe...

We are proposing a new filter for image restoration and enhancement tasks that relies on image orientation analysis techniques for steering and directing smoothing or enhancement processes. The filter is developed under the Partial Differential Equations (PDE) framework using asymmetric orientation estimation operators and it has better junction preservation and noise removal properties than ex...

Pragmatic interpretation of intent is essential for successful communication. The current studies evaluate the impact of affective prosody on the processing and interpretation of affectively spoken language. A production study provided further evidence of talker variability in the production of the emotionally-laden categories of Innuendo, Irritation, Compassion and Neutral, indicating a great ...

in this study cognitive therapy based on self-talking technique for reducing the rate of social phobia and factors of interpretation of events related to self and others have been noticed.sample group was 8 women from a 16-person group suffering from social phobia , selected at random from among 27 people referring to counseling clinics.their disorder has been detected by using the instrument o...

This paper shows how to construct semantic representations from the derivations produced by a wide-coverage CCG parser. Unlike the dependency structures returned by the parser itself, these can be used directly for semantic interpretation. We demonstrate that well-formed semantic representations can be produced for over 97% of the sentences in unseen WSJ text. We believe this is a major step to...

The manuscript has significantly improved after being revised. Most raised issues have now been clarified. Nevertheless, it needs some minor essential revisions, which are mentioned below: In the Abstract Results section: “We found VAP rates of 1.3 and 2.0 per 1,000 ventilator days respectively in 2009 and 2010, achieving zero incidence of VAP during 12 months, with a VAP bundle compliance over...

We present algorithms for testing the satisfiability and finding the tightened transitive closure of conjunctions of addition constraints of the form ±x ± y ≤ d and bound constraints of the form ±x ≤ d where x and y are integer variables and d is an integer constrant. The running time of these algorithms is a cubic polynomial in the number of input constraints. We also describe an efficient mat...

In my paper I discuss possible interpretations of Hungarian sentences containing multiple prosodic foci and ‘only’. Hungarian as a discourse-configurational language has a special position for identificational/exhaustive focus, which makes the role of ‘only’ problematic. Next to this problem I focus on sentences with multiple foci with and without ‘only’ and discuss the possible interpretations...