Genes are assumed to generate choice behavior in an environment where there are intertemporal tradeoffs. A gene survives the evolutionary process if it is not possible for a rare mutant gene to grow at a faster rate. Our goal is to represent the choice behavior of the surviving genes by a preference relation. We show that if choices affect the number of offspring but not the descendants’ reprod...

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This paper proposes a segmentation standard for Chinese natural language processing. The standard is proposed to achieve linguistic felicity, computational feasibility, and data uniformity. Linguistic felicity is maintained by defining a segmentation unit to be equivalent to the theoretical definition of word, and by providing a set of segmentation principles that are equivalent to a functional...

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Consider the class of contextually sensitive expressions whose context independent meanings do not by themselves suffice to secure semantic values for those expressions in contexts. Demonstratives and deictically used pronouns are the most obvious examples of such expressions. But arguably gradable adjectives, modals, possessives, tense, quantifiers, expressions that take implicit arguments (‘r...

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Felicity Haynes earned Honours degrees in English and French literature from The University of Western Australia completed her doctorate on reason understanding at the Illinoi...

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Acknowledgements The author gratefully acknowledges the support of the Department for International Development (DFID) in preparing this paper. The author would like to thank Felicity Proctor and Tiago Wandschneider for their comments on this paper. Any remaining errors and omissions are solely the author's responsibility. The views in this paper are solely those of the author and not necessari...