This paper investigated children's ability to use syntactic structures to infer semantic information. The particular syntax-semantics link examined was the one between transitivity (transitive/intransitive structures) and telicity (telic/atelic perspectives; that is, boundedness). Although transitivity is an important syntactic reflex of telicity, it is neither necessary nor sufficient for pred...

The purpose of the present study is to use transitivity analysis investigate gender variations in political media discourse from point view male and female columnists. To attain this purpose, paper adopts a critical (CDA) Halliday’s theory process types. Literature shows that variation one key elements affecting language. However, studies, particularly article writing, has not been recently add...

Abstract As is well known, implication transitive but probabilistic support not. Eells and Sober, followed by Shogenji, showed that screening off a sufficient constraint for the transitivity of support. Moreover, this condition can be weakened without sacrificing transitivity, as was demonstrated Suppes later Roche. In paper we introduce an even weaker support, in fact one made weak wishes. We ...

When is a cause of a cause of an effect also a cause of that effect? The right answer is either “Sometimes” or “Always”. In favour of “Always”, transitivity is considered by some to be necessary for distinguishing causes from redundant noncausal events. Moreover transitivity may be motivated by an interest in an unselective notion of causation, untroubled by principles of invidious discriminati...

The multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem has a solution whose quality can be affected by the experts’ inclinations. Under essential conditions, fuzzy MCDM method provide more acceptable and efficient outcomes to select best alternatives. This work consists of consensus-based technique for selecting evaluating suppliers in an incomplete preference relations (IFPRs) environment utilizing...

In Online Social Networks (OSNs), participants can conduct rich activities, where trust is one of the most important factors for their decision making. This necessitates the evaluation of the trustworthiness between two unknown participants along the social trust paths between them based on the trust transitivity properties (i.e., if A trustsB andB trusts C, then A can trust C to some extent). ...

Several experimental studies have observed substantial violations of transitivity for decisions between risky lotteries over monetary outcomes. The goal of our experiment is to test whether these violations also affect the evaluation of health states. A particular feature of our experimental design is that it takes into account the possible role of decision errors for generating violations of t...

Document summarization is a technique aimed to automatically extract the main ideas from electronic documents. With the fast increase of electronic documents available on the network, techniques for making efficient use of such documents become increasingly important. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm, called TriangleSum for single document summarization based on graph theory. The alg...

We present a sound and complete graphical criterion for reading dependencies from the minimal undirected independence map of a graphoid that satisfies weak transitivity. We argue that assuming weak transitivity is not too restrictive.