The interpretation of coercion constructions (to begin a book) has been recently considered as resulting from the operation of type changing. For instance, a phrase of type o (obj...
Little notice has been taken of punctuation in the field of natural language processing, chiefly due to the lack of any coherent theory on which to base implementations. Some work...
We consider continuous quantities that are used to describe the physical world, such as colour, shape, sound, texture, and spatial and temporal arrangements. Natural languages are...
We investigate the space requirements for summaries needed for maintaining exact answers to aggregate queries over histories of relational databases. We show that, in general, a su...
Abstract. We explore the expressive power of the formalism called Natural Operational Semantics, NOS, introduced by Burstall and Honsell for defining the operational semantics of ...