This paper presents an analysis of purpose clauses in the context of instruction understanding. Such analysis shows that goals affect the interpretation and / or execution of acti...
Three state-of-the-art statistical parsers are combined to produce more accurate parses, as well as new bounds on achievable Treebank parsing accuracy. Two general approaches are ...
Many recent advances in complex domains such as Natural Language Processing (NLP) have taken a discriminative approach in conjunction with the global application of structural and...
In the line of some earlier work done on belief dynamics, we an abstract model of belief propagation on a graph based on the methodology of the revision theory of truth. A modal la...
Language is sensitive to both semantic and pragmatic effects. To capture both effects, we model language use as a cooperative game between two players: a speaker, who generates an...