The recent emergence of simulation-based accounts of language understanding (e.g. Barsalou et al. To appear; Zwaan 2004) has provided a promising perspective on the relationship between language and conceptual structure in facilitating linguistically-mediated meaning construction. However, these accounts have tended to largely equate semantic structure—semantic representation associated with la...

Sequence stratigraphic and Wheeler diagram interpretations require a strong combination of conceptual understanding reasoning skills. Students are generally exposed to the foundational concepts within sequence stratigraphy (relative sea level, eustasy, base accommodation) in variety courses along their degree path, however, one prior study found that few students have clear scientific understan...

We present a logical approach of spoken language understanding for a human-machine dialogue system. The aim of the analysis is to provide a logical formula, or a conceptual graph, by assembling concepts related to a delimited application domain. This flexible structure is gradually built during an incremental parsing, which is meant to combine syntactic and semantic criteria. Then, a contextual...