The emerging Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a global impact on all important aspects of our society. As it is known, SARS-Cov-2 can withstand up to 72 h in adverse environmental conditions, which aid its rapid spread. Woefully, an efficacious and approbated vaccine for the SARS-CoV-2 virus remains unavailable, makes problem more frightening presently complicated bestowing fo...

The past decade, has witnessed renewed interest in the Generation of Referring Expressions (GRE) [23, 24, 8, 9, 10, 12, 22]. Broadening the scope beyond earlier work [3, 4, 5], recent proposals involve algorithms that refer to sets as well as individuals, using operations such as set union (‘the cat and the dogs’) and complementation (‘the dog that is not black’). As a consequence, it has becom...

Abstract Maximize Presupposition! (MP), as originally proposed in Heim (Semantik: Ein internationales Handbuch der zeitgenössischen Forschung, pp. 487–535, 1991) and developed subsequent works, offers an account of the otherwise mysterious unassertability a variety sentences. At core MP is idea that speakers are urged to use sentence ψ over ϕ if contributes same new information , yet carries st...

Although there are many theories about autism, something all of them agree upon is that autistics are impaired in the ability to communicate. The explanation is either their incapacity to attribute mental states to others or the interference of irrelevant stimuli with the access and processing of the communication (low). Our study on mute autistic children aims to investigate their communicativ...

On October 8, 2014, Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience (Clin Psychopharmacol Neurosci) was selected for coverage in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), 11 years after it was launched in 2003. Clin Psychopharmacol Neurosci is now the 34th journal published in Korea to be indexed in SCIE. Furthermore, with unanimous support from the executive committee and council members of the Asi...

1 . The Importance of Testimony We citizens of the 2lSt century live in a world where division of epistemic labour rules. Most of what we know we learned from the spoken or written word of others, and we depend in endless practical ways on the technological fruits of the dispersed knowledge of others-of which we often know almost nothing-in virtually every moment of our lives. Interest has been...

> Context • The idea to write this paper sprang up in a casual conversation that led to the question of how the word “experience” would be translated into German. Distinctions between the German “Erleben” and “Erfahren,” and their intricacies with “Erkennen” and “Anerkennen,” soon led to the conviction that this was a thread worth pursuing. > Problem • Much has been written about the nature of ...

One of the fascinations about Nature is her extraordinary versatility and ingenuity. This is emphasized by the author in pointing out some of the chemical and physical devices whereby the needs of various types of living organisms are adapted to their environment. The book is small, but the scope is broad. There are chapters on the biochemical adjustments correlated with the change from marine ...

This paper reports a crowdsourcing experiment on the identification and classification of event types in Italian. The data collected show that the task is not trivial (360 trusted judgments collected vs. 475 untrsuted ones) but it has been shown to be linguistically felicitous. The overall accuracy of the annotation is 61.6%. A reliability threshold assigned to the workers allows us to indentif...

As Steedman (1990, 248) puts it “[...] even the most basic gapped sentence like Fred ate bread, and Harry, bananas is only really felicitous in contexts which support (or accommodate) the presupposition that the topic under discussion is Who ate what?.” In this paper, I want to argue that Steedman’s remark hits the spot: given an adequate analysis of short answers, this analyis can be straightf...