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TARK
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Springer
We give derivations of two formal models of Gricean Quantity1 implicature and strong exhaustivity (Van Rooij and Schulz, 2004; Schulz and Van Rooij, 2006), in bidirectional optima...
TBILLC
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract. In this paper, we present a game theoretic account of a subclass of ‘relevance’ implicatures arising from irrelevant answers. We show that these phenomena can be expl...
JSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
This paper will explain the asymmetry parallelism between node ‘because’ and toki ‘when’ in terms of the availability of Evidential Phrase in syntax, following the analysis...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
2006
ACL Anthology
We describe a method for discovering irregularities in temporal mood patterns appearing in a large corpus of blog posts, and labeling them with a natural language explanation. Sim...
ACL
1989
13 years 6 months ago
1989
Existing plan-based theories of speech act interpretation do not account for the conventional aspect of speech acts. We use patterns of linguistic features (e.g. mood, verb form, ...