347 research outputs found
Station list and links to master tracks in different resolutions of HEINCKE cruise HE398, Bremerhaven - Bremerhaven, 2013-04-12 - 2013-04-17
No full textPlease note, that on 2019-11-20 it was found that this dataset was wrongly assigned to Jörg Bialas as author. This has been corrected to Jelle Bijma
Genitives, relational nouns, and the argument-modifier distinction
No full textThe argument-modifier distinction is less clear in NPs than in VPs; nouns do not typically take arguments. The clearest cases of arguments in NPs are in certain kinds of nominalizations which retain some "verbal" properties (Grimshaw 1990). The status of apparent arguments of non-deverbal relational nouns like sister is more controversial.
Genitive constructions like 'John's teacher', 'team of John's' offer a challenging testing ground for the argument-modifier distinction in NPs, both in English and cross-linguistically. On the analyses of Partee (1983/97) and Barker (1995), the DP in a genitive phrase (i.e. 'John' in 'John's') is always an argument of some relation, but the relation does not always come from the head noun. On those "ambiguity" analyses, some genitives are argument-like and some are modifier-like. Recent proposals by Jensen and Vikner and by Borschev and Partee analyze all genitives as argument-like, a conclusion we are no longer sure of.
In this paper we explore a range of possible analyses: argument-only, modifier-only, and ambiguity analyses, and consider the kinds of semantic evidence that suggest that different analyses may be correct for different genitive or possessive constructions in different languages
Author Name Disambiguation using Large Language Models: Contributions to a system for open reproducible publication research
No full textAuthor name disambiguation, otherwise described as (publication) record linking, is a problem that has had considerable research dedicated to its solv- ing. Author attributions, calculating research met- rics and conducting literature reviews are amongst processes that experience increased difficulty due to ambiguous author names. In this study, a novel approach is presented to disambiguate au- thors related to scientific publications, using Large Language Models (LLMs) in combination with the Alexandria3k software package. LLMs have shown great potential in processing, analysing and drawing conclusions when presented with human- readable data. The approach presented in this study supplies a LLM with known attributes of publica- tion records and authors, such as names, affiliations and co-authors, to determine whether records writ- ten by authors with ambiguous names can be linked to the same real-world person. Using Alexan- dria3k, a dataset of authors and publications with confirmed identities is created to test and validate the approach. Finally, the approach is measured against state-of-the-art methods to disambiguate author names and different configurations are pre- sented and discussed.CSE3000 Research ProjectComputer Science and Engineerin
Questions of Identity
No full textThis article is about the interpretation of quantifiers in epistemic contexts, and the closely related notion of what it means for two objects in different possible worlds to be identical. I will give arguments for several claims. The first claim is that the definition of identity between objects across epistemically possible worlds as being given by the identity of those objects themselves leads to empirical as well as conceptual problems. Recent examples of such a view on identity are the theory of questions of Groenendijk and Stokhof (1997) and the semantics for quantified modal logic of Groenendijk et al. (1996). Secondly, I will argue that these problems can be circumvented by taking trans-world identity to be a notion that is external to the possible worlds themselves (by some sort of counterpart theory, or by a set of individual concepts). This raises the old question what exactly this notion of identity is. I will argue by way of examples that there is no single notion of trans-world identity, but that the way we speak about objects depends on contextual factors. In this paper, I will concentrate mostly on the analysis of questions and of `knowing who,' but the points raised here are also relevant to issues related to de re knowledge and belief and the interaction of epistemic `might' and quantifiers. I will address these and other issues in a more extended version of this paper. Possibilities and information states
Dynamic Epistemic Logic
No full textThis paper is the result of combining two traditions in formal logic: epistemic logic and dynamic semantics. Dynamic semantics is a branch of formal semantics that is concerned wit
Changing the Common Ground
No full textthis paper were written at the CSLI of Stanford University; the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Reesearch (NWO) is gratefully thanked for sponsoring my visit there. I would also like to thank Henk Zeevat, Paul Dekker and Marco Hollenberg for their useful comments. Agents in State
Reasoning about Action and Cooperation
No full textWe present a logic for reasoning both about the ability of agents to cooperate to execute complex actions, and how this relates to their ability to reach certain states of affairs. We show how the logic can be obtained in a modularised way, by combining a model for reasoning about actions and their effects with a model that describes what actions an agent can perform. More precisely, we show how one can combine an action logic which resembles Propositional Dynamic Logic with a cooperation logic which resembles Coalition Logic. We give a sound and complete axiomatisation for the logic, illustrate its use by means of an example, and discuss possible future extensions to it
Identity in Epistemic Semantics
No full textThis paper is a contribution to the semantical theory of different types of knowledge ascription, in particular the semantics of `knowing who' and of the interaction between quantifiers and epistemic modal expressions. In possible world semantics, the truth conditions of such sentences depend on the way that identity across possible worlds is modeled. The main argument of this paper is that the context-dependence of such sentences can be modeled as a dependence on the identity relation between objects in possible world
Bisimulations on Planet
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The Surprise Examination
No full textWe examine a version of the surprise examination paradox using dynamic epistemic logic. We claim that the di#culties in the puzzle arise from the assumption that announcements are in general successful: the hearer will come to believe that they are true. This principle fails in certain specific cases, and we show that the announcement in the surprise exam paradox is an example. In dynamic epistemic logic, announcements that are not successful can be informative anyway. This analysis explains how sentences that are true but cannot consistently be believed, can be informative anyway, resolving many of the puzzling aspects of the puzzle
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