We use the interpretation of vague scalar predicates like small as an illustration of how systematic semantic models of dialogue context enable the derivation of useful, fine-grained utterance interpretations from radically underspecified semantic forms. Because dialogue context suffices to determine salient alternative scales and relevant distinctions along these scales, we can infer implicit ...

Teenagers or adolescents are complex cultural constructions. This paper will trace a brief history on the origin of notions as relevant to Global North. It considers related UK educational policy, and specific economic interest in ‘the teenage consumer’. The consideration young people for their significant value sparked direct marketing advertising strategies. Concerns over unconscious manipula...

Abstract We derive new solutions of the Schrödinger, Klein–Gordon and Dirac equations which describe motion particles in a uniform magnetic field. In contrast to well known stationary solutions, our exhibit behavior quantum very closely resembles classical helical trajectories. These also serve as an illustration meaning Ehrenfest theorem relativistic mechanics.

We describe in this article an annotation scheme for deep dependency syntax, built from the surface annotation scheme of the Sequoia corpus, abstracting away from it and expressing the grammatical relations between content words. When these grammatical relations take part into verbal diatheses, we consider the diatheses as resulting from redistributions from the canonical diathesis, which we re...

We describe our contribution to the SemEval task on Frame-Semantic Structure Extraction. Unlike most previous systems described in literature, ours is based on dependency syntax. We also describe a fully automatic method to add words to the FrameNet lexical database, which gives an improvement in the recall of frame detection.

A largely neglected aspect in crowdsourcing research is the “Crowdsourcing Experience” itself, which every crowdsourcee is necessarily exposed to throughout the IT-mediated interaction process, potentially stimulating engagement towards the crowdsourcer. Hence, the crowdsourcees’ engagement process is conceptualized and illustrated with empirical findings from a pilot case. It exemplifies that ...