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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 ...
Comparing SpamAssassin with CBDF email filtering
(2004)
In this paper, we compare the email filtering
software SpamAssassin with a statistical
email filter, known as chi by degrees of freedom.
We examine SpamAssassin?s filtering techniques
and ascertain their effectiveness. ...
Epistemic Signals and Emoticons Affect Kudos
(IEEE, 2012)
Our focus is on the interaction between emoticon use and epistemic hedges in the perception of individual contributions to discourse (and posters of those contributions) as deserving of kudos for their input. The communities ...
Time for laughter
(2014)
Social signals are integral to conversational interaction and constitute a large part of the social dynamics of multiparty communication. Moreover, social signals may also have a function in discourse structure. We focus ...
Emoticons Signal Expertise in Technical Web Forums
(Springer, 2013)
Past research has demonstrated intercultural differences in emoticon use with effects of the topic of discourse (e.g. science vs. politics) interacting with the culture of online postings (e.g. UK, Italy, Sweden, Germany). ...
A Logic Based Implementation of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
(Elsevier, 1991)
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), a unification-based formal language for
describing linguistic phenomena, has a declarative semantics which makes it amenable to
specification as a logic program. The HPSG ...
Spanish Psychological Predicates
(CSLI Publications, 2000)
Chats and Chunks: Annotation and Analysis of Multiparty Long Casual Conversations
(2018)
Casual talk or social conversation is a fundamental form of spoken interaction. Corpora of casual talk often comprise relatively short dyadic conversations, although research into such talk has found longer multiparty ...
N-gram Distributions in Texts as Proxy for Textual Fingerprints
(IOS Press, 2007)
Recent experiments using mainly character unigram distributions in authorship attribution tasks are discussed. Results so far indicate efficacy in similarity judgements seemingly good enough for `balance of probabilities' ...
Psychological Evidence for Assumptions of Path-Based Inheritance Reasoning
(1994)
The psychological validity of inheritance reasoners is clarified.
Elio and Pelletier (1993) presented the first pilot experiment
exploring some of these issues. We investigate other foundational
assumptions of inheritance ...