We present a method for trust scenarios with more than one trustee, where sets of trustees are ordered in a relation of relative trustworthiness. We show how a priority structure implicit in a trust relation can be made fully explicit by means of a lattice and how a system of default expectations arises from a systematic interpretation. The default structure lends itself to formal interpretatio...

Interpretation, Bug Detection and Bug Diagnosis in Normal Logic Programs

No wonder you activities are, reading will be always needed. It is not only to fulfil the duties that you need to finish in deadline time. Reading will encourage your mind and thoughts. Of course, reading will greatly develop your experiences about everything. Reading semantic interpretation and the resolution of ambiguity is also a way as one of the collective books that gives many advantages....

This article discusses how a cognitive modelling approach for criminal behaviour can be related to a biological modelling approach. The discussion is illustrated by a case study for the behaviour of three types of violent criminals as known from literature within the area of Criminology. A cognitive model is discussed that can show each of the behaviours of these types of criminals, depending o...

Problems in two axiomatizations of Jaśkowski’s discussive (or discursive) logic D2 are considered. A recent axiomatization of D2 and completeness proof relative to D2’s intended semantics seems to be mistaken because some formulas valid according to the intended semantics turn out to be unprovable. Although no new axiomatization is offered, nor a repaired completeness proof given, the shortcomi...

Marcus [3] notes that the syntax of English comparative constructions is highly complex, and claims that both syntactic end semantic information must be available for them to be parsed. This paper argues that comparatives can be structurally analyzed on the basis of syntactic information alone via a s t r i c t l y surface-based grammar. Such a grammar is given in Ryan [5], based on the corepre...

Interpretation of Domain-Specific Embedded Languages Kevin Backhouse Lincoln College Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computation September 23, 2002

We aim to extend the notion of distance of sets to partially ordered sets (posets). We discuss several possible definitions, and we propose a relaxed definition of distance between elements of a domain. We apply it in the abstract interpretation theory, and we show in some preliminary examples how it seems well suited to formally quantify the relative loss of precision induced by abstract domains.

In this paper we propose a machinelearning approach to paragraph boundary identification which utilizes linguistically motivated features. We investigate the relation between paragraph boundaries and discourse cues, pronominalization and information structure. We test our algorithm on German data and report improvements over three baselines including a reimplementation of Sporleder & Lapata’s (...