The open texture of law is one of the core content of the new analytical-positivist jurisprudence, which is defined by H. L. Hart. In this paper, we try to put forward a new view for the theory that the judiciary should exercise at certain limited discretion to fill the legal loopholes in the long term. Analyzing from the angle of the uncertainty of the rule of law, namely, the open texture, we...

A common problem for many database users is how to formulate and submit correct queries in order to get useful responses from the system, with little or no knowledge of the database structure and its content. The notion of cooperative query answering has been explored as an effective mechanism to address this problem. In this paper, we propose a cooperative query answering scheme based on the A...

Interpretation and Attribute Grammars

The speech technological scene in Denmark is slowly gaining public and commercial attention, and today there is a call for more diverse products than just recognition and synthesis of standard Danish (i.e. the Copenhagen regiolect). In this working paper, we demonstrate how an existing synthesis engine may be tuned to provide a regiolect speaking voice, involving in its simplest form prosodic a...

We have designed and implemented a text processing system that can extract important information from hundreds of paragraphs per hour and can be transported within weeks to a new domain. The system performs efficiently because it determines the level of processing required to understand a text. This "skimming" method identifies surface relations in the input text that are likely to contribute t...

Data processing applications often have non-experts as audience, which has led to an increasing interest into verbalizing data into natural language. However, verbalizations often focus on observed or predicted facts, while predictive technologies in addition generate information such as probabilities and confidence scores. This gives rise to data that goes beyond facts alone and that also has ...

interpretation from a denotational-semantics perspective

Contextual Graphs are a context-based formalism used in various real-world applications. They allow a uniform representation of elements of reasoning and of contexts for describing different human tasks such as diagnosis and interpretation. The representation of reasoning by Contextual Graphs supposes an efficient representation of the knowledge associated with a reasoning. Extending the previo...

The paper entitled \Against Many-Worlds Interpretations" by A. Kent, which has recently been submitted to the e-Print archive (gr-qc/9703089) contained some misconceptions. The claims on Everett's many-worlds interpretation are quoted and answered.