The paper investigates discourse particles on the example of German doch, assigning to them very specific semantic interpretations that still cover a wide range of their uses. The...
This paper describes two different ways of understanding operation contracts in conceptual modeling: the strict and the extended interpretations. The main difference between them l...
I show how a conversational process that takes simple, intuitively meaningful steps may be understood as a sophisticated computation that derives the richly detailed, complex repr...
Notions of context for natural language interpretation are factored in terms of three processes: translation, entailment and attunement. The processes are linked by accessibility r...
Local pattern mining algorithms generate sets of patterns, which are typically not directly useful and have to be further processed before actual application or interpretation. Ra...