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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Natural Language Semantics"”.
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Measurement that transcends time : a Lebesgue integral approach to existential sentences
In the study of natural language semantics, sentences that assert the existence of entities predicated of by noun phrases have traditionally been analyzed with simple usage of the existential quantifier. In this thesis, I challenge this standard approach through discussion of sentences whose …
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Grounding robot motion in natural language and visual perception
… allows humans to interact with robots through a natural-language interface. I conduct this research on a custom-built six-wheeled mobile robot.</p> <p>First I present a unified framework which supports grounding natural-language semantics in robotic driving. This framework supports learning the …
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Learning narrative structure from annotated folktales
… retrieval, persuasion and negotiation, natural language understanding and generation, and computational creativity. Second, abstraction from natural language semantics is a skill that underlies many cognitive tasks, and so this work provides insight into those processes. Finally, the …
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Framework for Automatic Translation of Hardware Specifications Written in English to a Formal Language
… translation of hardware specifications from natural language to assertions in a formal representation has the potential to improve the verification productivity of ICs. However, natural language specifications have the characteristics of being imprecise, incomplete, and ambiguous. An …
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Mining novel sources of knowledge to identify causal information in text
… and predict consequences of their decisions. In natural language, causal relations can be encoded using various linguistic constructions. Each construction with its own semantics can pose various challenges for the problem of identifying causality. In this thesis, we address the tasks of …
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Modal auxiliary verbs and contexts
… represent modal auxiliaries. The notion of event semantics (Davidson 1967) plays an important role in the formulation of the compositional semantics due to the way in which event times are related to aspectual meaning. The grammar uses a Neo-Davidsonian approach (Parsons 1990) to representing the …