In this paper we explore the idea that the code that constitutes a program actually forms a higher-level, program specific language. The symbols of the language are the abstracti...
Several recent efforts in statistical natural language understanding (NLU) have focused on generating clumps of English words from semantic meaning concepts (Miller et al., 1995; ...
Stephen Della Pietra, Mark Epstein, Salim Roukos, ...
Abstract. The Bayesian approach to machine learning amounts to inferring posterior distributions of random variables from a probabilistic model of how the variables are related (th...
We take a fresh look at the logics of informational dependence and independence of Hintikka and Sandu and V¨a¨an¨anen, and their compositional semantics due to Hodges. We show h...
Abstract. The LogAnswer system is an application of automated reasoning to the field of open domain question-answering, the retrieval of answers to natural language questions regar...