This article argues that analyses of value semantics in organisational image brochures, websites, and further official documents do not give information about an organisation’s ethical performance. Based on a systems theoretical definition of values, the case is made for a distinction of communication on values and value communication, the latter of which is defined as implicit form of communic...

This paper presents a methodology to infer implicit semantic relations from verbargument structures. An annotation effort shows implicit relations boost the amount of meaning explicitly encoded for verbs. Experimental results with automatically obtained parse trees and verb-argument structures demonstrate that inferring implicit relations is a doable task.

ion Compensatory affirmation is not the only way in which we can fluidly compensate for a meaning violation—sometimes we will find meaning when unrelated understandings are threatened. If we are looking to our environment to identify something—anything—that can be rendered familiar, the kinds of expected associations that we will draw or abstract may push the limits of fluid compensation even f...

accessory thing is a thing that stands in a dependency relationship with the principal thing. an accessory thing ordinarily serves the economic or other purposes of the principal thing and shares its legal fate in case of transfer or encumbrance. there are some questions? different opinions about the meaning of it and the is it a contractual subject or not? and may it be determined by implicit ...

Interpretation of a pronoun in one clause can be systematically affected by the verb in the previous clause. Compare Archibald angered Bartholomew because he… (he=Archibald) with Archibald criticized Bartholomew because he… (he=Bartholomew). While it is clear that meaning plays a critical role, it is unclear whether that meaning is directly encoded in the verb or, alternatively, inferred from w...

Waka is a form of traditional Japanese poetry with a 1300year history. In this paper we attempt to semi-automatically discover instances of poetic allusion, or more generally, to find similar poems in anthologies of waka poems. The key to success is how to define the similarity measure on poems. We first examine the existing similarity measures on strings, and then give a unifying framework tha...

Negation is present in all human languages and it is used to reverse the polarity of part of statements that are otherwise affirmative by default. A negated statement often carries positive implicit meaning, but to pinpoint the positive part from the negative part is rather difficult. This paper aims at thoroughly representing the semantics of negation by revealing implicit positive meaning. Th...