Proof erasure plays an essential role in the paradigm of programming with theorem proving. In this paper, we introduce a form of attributive types that carry an attribute to determine whether expressions assigned such types are eligible for erasure before run-time. We formalize a type system to support this form of attributive types and then establish its soundness. In addition, we outline an e...

This paper describes a media-independent, compositional, plan-based approach to representing attributive descriptions for use in integrated text and graphics generation. An attributive description's main function is to convey information directly contributing to the communicative goals of a discourse, whereas a referential description's only function is to enable the audience to identify a part...

The perception of semantic similarity derives from distinct processes of comparison and integration. A dual process model of conceptual combination claims that attributive combination (e.g., umbrella tree) entails comparison, while relational combination (e.g., pancake spatula) requires integration. The present research uses similarity as a test of this dual process model. Participants (N = 168...

This construction consists minimally of two parts: an adjective (e.g., dumb, crazy) or a noun (e.g., fool, punk) and the word ass; these two parts together serve to modify a noun, as shown in (1), where dumb ass modifies husband. Because of the attributive modificational nature of this construction, I will call it the Ass Attributive Construction (AAC). Because the construction admits some alte...

“Deep-syntactic” dependency structures that capture the argumentative, attributive and coordinative relations between full words of a sentence have a great potential for a number of NLPapplications. The abstraction degree of these structures is in-between the output of a syntactic dependency parser (connected trees defined over all words of a sentence and language-specific grammatical functions...