Search results for " semantics"

How domain-sensitive are existential constructions? Evidence from Swedish and Dutch weather reports

2020

International audience; [Introduction] Over the last two decades, linguists have shown considerable interest in the advantages of CxG-theories for various linguistic sub-disciplines. A particular question that has arisen within more “applied” frameworks, is whether or not constructions can have domain-specific manifestations regarding meaning and/or form (Fischer/Nikiforidou 2015; Bücker/Günther/Imo 2015; Gautier/Bach 2019). However, sufficient empirical analyses are currently missing, and this research question needs to be more systematically tested for constructions in various languages and different LSP-oriented domains. Beside the mere “applied” focus, such work can lead to interestin…

The Foundations of Cognitive Linguistics

2015

Using Semantics in the Environment for Multiagent-Based Simulation

2014

In this chapter, we carry out an overview and analysis of the usage of semantics to enhance environments in the domain of multiagent-based simulations. Firstly, we take a look at what a multiagent system (MAS) is, and after that we look at the environment for these systems, and why semantics are required in it. Various propositions to put semantics in the environment for MAS are then reviewed, as well as the strengths and weaknesses for these approaches. These propositions are grouped together under two categories, regarding whether the proposed approach is based on only the environment or on both the agents and the environment. The paper is then concluded with findings that have emerged by…

Les grammaires de construction au service de la morphologie lexicale ? Apports pour la description des noms-termes en allemand

2019

International audience; Contexte Le « goût » de la langue allemande pour la créativité lexicale, en particulier dans le domaine nominal, fait figure de lapalissade. Ceci est particulièrement vrai en discours spécialisés où les besoins en dénomination de nouveaux concepts passent, outre les différentes formes d’emprunts ou de néologismes de forme, par les deux procédés classiques que sont la dérivation et la composition. C’est dans ce contexte que la présente proposition de communication vise à interroger les apports des grammaires de construction appliquées à ces phénomènes – on parlera alors avec Booij (2017) de morphologie constructionnelle – pour une analyse de l’interface syntaxe-séma…

On some conceptualizations of Europe in press discourse: an approach from access semantics

2016

This paper is concerned with the semantic potential of the lexical item . Its aim is to analyze and classify different conceptualizations of the lexical item as manifested in a corpus of headlines retrieved from the . Specifically, the study is based on 217 headlines derived from a corpus of approximately one million words of news items retrieved from the from May 2004 through December 2009. The analysis is grounded in the LCCM Theory, a theory of lexical representation and semantic composition developed by Evans (for example, Evans 2006, 2009).

Polysemy in Controlled Natural Language Texts

2015

Computational semantics and logic-based controlled natural languages (CNL) do not address systematically the word sense disambiguation problem of content words, i.e., they tend to interpret only some functional words that are crucial for construction of discourse representation structures. We show that micro-ontologies and multi-word units allow integration of the rich and polysemous multi-domain background knowledge into CNL thus providing interpretation for the content words. The proposed approach is demonstrated by extending the Attempto Controlled English (ACE) with polysemous and procedural constructs resulting in a more natural CNL named PAO covering narrative multi-domain texts.

MLOG: a strongly typed confluent functional language with logical variables

1994

Poirriez, V., MLOG: a strongly typed confluent functional language with logical variables, Theoretical Computer Science 122 (1994) 201-223. A new programming language called MLOG is introduced. MLOG is a conservative extension of ML with logical variables. To validate our concepts, a compiler named CAML Light FLU0 was implemented. Numerous examples are presented to illustrate the possibilities of MLOG. The pattern matching of ML is kept for X-calculus bindings and an unification primitive is introduced for the logical variables bindings. A suspension mechanism allows cohabitation of pattern-matching and logical variables, Although the evaluation strategy for the application is fixed, the or…

Duality, projectivity, and unification in Łukasiewicz logic and MV-algebras

2013

AbstractWe prove that the unification type of Łukasiewicz (infinite-valued propositional) logic and of its equivalent algebraic semantics, the variety of MV-algebras, is nullary. The proof rests upon Ghilardiʼs algebraic characterisation of unification types in terms of projective objects, recent progress by Cabrer and Mundici in the investigation of projective MV-algebras, the categorical duality between finitely presented MV-algebras and rational polyhedra, and, finally, a homotopy-theoretic argument that exploits lifts of continuous maps to the universal covering space of the circle. We discuss the background to such diverse tools. In particular, we offer a detailed proof of the duality …

Motor and linguistic linking of space and time in the cerebellum

2009

Background: Recent literature documented the presence of spatial-temporal interactions in the human brain. The aim of the present study was to verify whether representation of past and future is also mapped onto spatial representations and whether the cerebellum may be a neural substrate for linking space and time in the linguistic domain. We asked whether processing of the tense of a verb is influenced by the space where response takes place and by the semantics of the verb. Principal Findings: Responses to past tense were facilitated in the left space while responses to future tense were facilitated in the right space. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the right cereb…

A Semantic Web Approach for Geodata Discovery

2013

International audience; Currently, vast amounts of geospatial information are o ffered through OGC's services. However this information has limited formal semantics. The most common method to search for a dataset consists in matching keywords to metadata elements. By adding semantics to available descriptions we could use modern inference and reasoning mechanisms currently available in the SemanticWeb. In this paper we present a novel architecture currently in development in which we use state of the art triplestores as the backend of a CSW service. In our approach, each metadata record is considered an instance of a given class in a domain ontology. Our architecture also adds a spatial dat…