Wh-phrases in English have two important properties: first, they can appear both raised and in-situ; second, while in-situ wh-phrases can take semantic scope beyond the immediately...
A subgraph H of a graph G is gated if for every x V(G) there exists a vertex u in H such that dG (x, v) = dG (x, u) + d G (u, v) for any v V(H). The gated amalgam of graphs G 1 an...
Elf is a general meta-language for the specification and implementation of logical systems in the style of the logical framework LF. Proof search in this framework is based on the...
Ensuring that the content of a rule-base, which is being encoded, is free from problems of consistency, completeness, and conciseness, is necessary to avoid any performance errors...
We focus on the productionof efficient descriptionsof objects, actions and events. We define a type of efficiency, textualeconomy, thatexploitsthe hearer’s recognitionof infe...