This volume collects the proceedings of the International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modelling and Using Context, held in Rio de Janeiro in January 1997, which proved to be the first in a series. (The second was held in Trento in 1999, the third in Dundee in 2001.) The theory of context is important and problematic--problematic because the intuitions are confused, because of the dispar...

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Formalism is on the return. The romance with the formal properties of discourse seemed on the rocks for several decades starting in the 1980s when critics had their heads turned away from the literary by cultural studies and the politics of identity. Surely a renewed interest in form does not mean that cultural critique in the twenty-first century will pick up where New Criticism left off. Atte...

Context: Couple treatment for pathological gambling is an innovative strategy. There are some results supporting its potential effectiveness, but little is known about the subjective experiences of the participants. Objective: The aim of this article is to document the experiences of gamblers and their partners participating in one of two treatments, namely individual or couple. Method: In a st...

0. Introduction In this paper we attempt to provide a homogeneous description of definite and indefinite noun phrases. We therefore assume one semantic representation for one interpretation that the definite article the and the indefinite article a share. Our starting point is the classical theory of descriptions as developed by Russell in his famous article of 1905, " On Denoting. " In the fir...

Ideology, power, and identity are truly reflected in people’s daily discourse including mark negotiation discourse of students. Peculiar power relations in Iranian academic settings and the unique features of politeness in Farsi extending up to Ta’arof motivated the researcher to statistically analyze a total of 50 mark negotiation discourse samples of Iranian university students from diverse d...

The main aim of this article is to analyze a recent text by Nenad Miščević dealing with social epistemology in the context of Foucault's theory of knowledge. In the first part, we briefly note Miščević's thoughts on the difference between analytic and continental philosophy and his thoughts on the latter. In the second part, we analyze both Miščević’s thesis about Foucault's dual understanding ...

The fundamental significance of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of space in his early masterpiece, Phenomenology of Perception (hereafter referred as PhP), has been largely underestimated, if not completely ignored, in the literature of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy. This underestimation can be traced back to the received view that space problem is not the primary theme of PhP, but only a touchstone...

multilevel tree representations which combine syntactic, logical and semantic relationships), lexical transfer (lexical substitution with some structural changes), structural transfer (tree transduction), syntactic generation, morphological generation (trees to strings). The long-term aim of the GETA project is a multilingual system producing 'good enough' results, i.e. accepting the need for p...

Different degrees of human intervention can be applied to the preparation of machine translation (MT) products in readying them for their ultimate use. It is suggested here that differences in levels of postediting are associated to some extent with cohesion and coherence. The posteditor is essentially an interpreter of discourse: much of the postediting task involves either employing devices t...