It is claimed that a variety of facts concerning ellipsis, event reference, and interclausal coherence can be explained by two features of the linguistic form in question: (1) whe...
Large-scale knowledge-based machine translation requires significant amounts of lexical knowledge in order to map syntactic structures to conceptual structures. This paper present...
We present a framework for defining abstract interpreters for liveness properties, in particular program termination. The framework makes use of the theory of metric spaces to defi...
Abstract. In this paper, we give an operational and denotational semantics for a 3APL meta-language, with which various 3APL interpreters can be programmed. We moreover prove equiv...
Birna van Riemsdijk, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Frank S...
We propose a novel interpretation of natural-language questions using a modal predicate logic of knowledge. Our approach brings standard model-theoretic and proof-theoretic techniq...