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Denoting Offence
(2014)
Dynamic semantics for metaphor
(2001)
An intensional logic with dynamic interpretation is presented in order to provide a formal
semantics for sense extension, lexical ambiguity and metaphoricity. Intensionality is
required in order to provide the right ...
Emoticonsciousness
(Springer, 2009)
A temporal analysis of emoticon use in Swedish, Italian, German and English asynchronous electronic communication is reported. Emoticons are classified as positive, negative or neutral. Postings to newsgroups over a 66 ...
The syntax of concealment: reliable methods for plain text information hiding
(2007)
Many plain text information hiding techniques demand deep semantic processing, and so suffer in reliability. In contrast,
syntactic processing is a more mature and reliable technology. Assuming a perfect parser, this paper ...
Statistically-constrained shallow text marking: techniques, evaluation paradigm and results
(International Society for Optical Engineering, 2007)
We present three natural language marking strategies based on fast and reliable shallow parsing techniques, and on widely
available lexical resources: lexical substitution, adjective conjunction swaps, and relativiser ...
Taboo Semantics
(IEEE, 2014)
Laughter and Topic Changes: Temporal Distribution and Information Flow
(IEEE, 2012)
Laughter is an important component of social interaction that has attracted interest within conversational analysis. However, it is not universally accepted that laughs have a function in discourse structure. In this study ...
Testing the Reliability of an Authorship Identification Method
(Trinity College Dublin, 2004)
Forensic linguists try to nd irregularities in language use, as irregularities provide
'signature' information that may withstand legal tests of certainty about,
for example, authorship identication. Irregularities ...
Non-Local Contexts Help Resolve Ambiguity
(2006)
This paper addresses nonlocal context effects in the
interpretation of ambiguous utterances in natural language.
We examine equivocation as a form of discourse
ambiguity and demonstrate that nonlocal contexts can
resolve ...