What knowledge sources are necessary in the interpretation and generation of ellipsis? After a short background on earlier approaches we compare and discuss each of the four papers selected for this special issue, examining how they approach ellipsis generation or interpretation. We highlight areas where more research needs to be done: outlining how pragmatics affects ellipsis, empirical studie...

An important aspect in generating creative ideas is the ability of transition from one concept to another concept whose manipulation in certain ways can yield novel viewpoints. Although, the analogical inference has the ability to generate new ideas through a process of carry-over or adaptation from the source onto the target, the certitude in the format of this process may prohibit the generat...

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We give an abstract interpretation of initial boundary value problems for hyperbolic equations such that a part of initial boundary value conditions contains also a differentiation on the time t of the same order as equations. The case of stable solutions of abstract hyperbolic equations is treated. Then we show applications of obtained abstract results to hyperbolic differential equations whic...

Developmental processes in nature may involve complex changes in the topology, shape, and patterns of growing structures. Processes taking place in one or two dimensions can be visualized as objects in three-dimensional space, obtained by extruding the growing structures along a line or curve representing the progress of time. In this paper, we extend the notion of L-systems with turtle interpr...

Simultaneous interpretation allows people to communicate spontaneously across language boundaries, but such services are prohibitively expensive for the general public. This paper presents a fully automatic simultaneous interpretation system to address this problem. Though the development is still at an early stage, the system is capable of keeping up with the fastest of the TED speakers while ...

This study is a first attempt to unravel the almost unexplored domain of abstract conceptual knowledge. Four kinds of abstract concepts (nominal kinds, states of the self, cognitiveconcepts (nominal kinds, states of the self, cognitive processes, and emotion concepts) were investigated in two experiments. Emotion concepts displayed a specific pattern in both concreteness/abstractness and imager...

The available analysis of comparative constructions that intend to explain the possibility of NPIs to occur in than-clauses do not give a satisfactory account of the licensing and interpretation of N-words in such clauses. In this paper, I propose a different analysis of comparative constructions, which, contrary to previous analysis, does not assume any stipulation particular to such structure...

This framework allows the description of previous probabilistic models and also the defhtion of new ones, all of them endowed with a semantic interpretation based on a "voter's profile". The methods within the framework fulfil a number of important and adequate properties of interest for fuzzy quantification and can also deal with very different types of quantifiers, as comparative and exceptio...