Semantic theories of natural language associate meanings with utterances by providing meanings for lexical items and rules for determining the meaning of larger units given the meanings of their parts. Meanings are often assumed to combine via function application, which works well when constituent structure trees are used to guide semantic composition. However, we believe that the functional s...

In this paper we propose a new approach to language modeling based on dynamic Bayesian networks. The principle idea of our approach is to find the dependence relations between variables that represent different linguistic units (word, class, concept, ...) that constitutes a language model. In the context of this paper the linguistic units that we consider are syntactic classes and words. Our ap...

In crowdsourced cartographic projects, mappers coordinate their e↵orts through online tools to produce digital geospatial artefacts, such as maps and gazetteers, which were once the exclusive territory of professional surveyors and cartographers. In order to produce meaningful and coherent data, contributors need to negotiate a shared conceptualisation that defines the domain concepts, such as ...

Coherence evaluation of texts falls into a category natural language processing tasks. The texts’ coherence implies the estimation their semantic and logical integrity; such feature text can be utilized during solving multidisciplinary tasks (SEO analysis, medicine area, detection fake texts, etc.). In this paper, different state-of-the-art methods based on machine learning models have been ana...

AIM The aim of this study was to test the usability of selected narrativity indices identified from autobiographical accounts of important relationships in an assessment of neurotic (NPO) and borderline personality organization (BPO). METHODS Narrativity indices, both particular and generalized, were used to predict personality organization levels. Indices were derived from two separate layer...

Aptness is an umbrella term that covers a multitude of issues in the interpretation and generation of creative metaphor. In this paper we concentrate on one of these issues – the notion of lexical systematicity – and explore its role in ascertaining the coherence of creative metaphor relative to the structure of the target concept being described. We argue that all else being equal, the most ap...

This paper describes a quantitative indicator for segmenting narrative text into coherent scenes. The indicator, called the lexical cohesion pro le (LCP), records lexical cohesiveness of words in a xed-length window moving word by word on the text. The cohesiveness of words, which represents their coherence, is computed by spreading activation on a semantic network. The basic idea of LCP is: (1...

This paper introduces an approach to modeling the interpretation of semantically underspecified logical metonymies, such as John began the book. A distinctive feature of the theory presented is its emphasis on accounting for their behavior in discoursecontexts. The approach dependson the definition of a pragmatic component which interacts in the appropriate manner with lexicosyntactic informati...

Aptness is an umbrella term that covers a multitude of issues in the interpretation and generation of creative metaphor. In this paper we concentrate on one of these issues — the notion of lexical systematicity — and explore its role in ascertaining the coherence of creative metaphor relative to the structure of the target concept being described. We argue that all else being equal, the most ap...