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Do You See What I Mean? Visual Resolution of Linguistic Ambiguities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Understanding language goes hand in hand with the ability to integrate complex contextual information obtained via perception. In this work, we present a novel task for grounded language understanding: disambiguating a sentence given a visual scene which
Barbu, Andrei   +4 more
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Why Are All the Sets All the Sets?

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Necessitists about set theory think that the pure sets exists, and are the way they are, as a matter of necessity. They cannot explain why the sets (de rebus) are all the sets. This constitutes the Ur‐Objection against necessitism; it is the primary motivation cited by potentialists about set theory.
Tim Button
wiley   +1 more source

Human tests for machine models: What lies “Beyond the Imitation Game”?

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Benchmarking large language models (LLMs) is a key practice for evaluating their capabilities and risks. This paper considers the development of “BIG Bench,” a crowdsourced benchmark designed to test LLMs “Beyond the Imitation Game.” Drawing on linguistic anthropological and ethnographic analysis of the project's GitHub repository, we examine ...
Noya Kohavi, Anna Weichselbraun
wiley   +1 more source

Centering, Anaphora Resolution, and Discourse Structure [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Centering was formulated as a model of the relationship between attentional state, the form of referring expressions, and the coherence of an utterance within a discourse segment (Grosz, Joshi and Weinstein, 1986; Grosz, Joshi and Weinstein, 1995).
Walker, Marilyn A.
core   +2 more sources

Automatic case acquisition from texts for process-oriented case-based reasoning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper introduces a method for the automatic acquisition of a rich case representation from free text for process-oriented case-based reasoning. Case engineering is among the most complicated and costly tasks in implementing a case-based reasoning ...
Ber, Florence Le   +3 more
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KILLJOY POETICS IN ANTJE RÁVIK STRUBEL'S BLAUE FRAU (2021)

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 217-242, April 2026.
Abstract Drawing on Sara Ahmed's concept of killjoy activism, I explore how Antje Rávik Strubel's Blaue Frau employs a killjoy poetics that refuses to brush over violence, asymmetry, injury and force. Instead, the novel intervenes in affective textures of happiness and reconciliation, and forms activist and ecological networks of resistance. I build on
Alrik Daldrup
wiley   +1 more source

Persian Deixis in the Flow of Conversation

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 469-488, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the two demonstratives in Persian conversation, namely the proximal een, “this,” and distal oun, “that,” and their plural forms, that constitute the bulk of Persian pronominal and adnominal demonstratives functioning as anaphoric, deictic, discourse‐deictic and recognitional. The data from which these demonstratives are
Hossein Shokouhi
wiley   +1 more source

Conversational Scorekeeping

open access: yesPhilosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 10, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Recent philosophy of language has seen a growing interest in what is often called the dynamics of conversation or conversational scorekeeping, that is, the ways in which speech and context mutually interact in the course of a conversation.
Lars Dänzer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Use Generalized Representations, But Do Not Forget Surface Features [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Only a year ago, all state-of-the-art coreference resolvers were using an extensive amount of surface features. Recently, there was a paradigm shift towards using word embeddings and deep neural networks, where the use of surface features is very limited.
Moosavi, Nafise Sadat, Strube, Michael
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LIST, ASSEMBLAGE, INTERRUPTION: MIGRANT LITERATURE AGAINST STORY

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 413-421, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Building on the centrality of translation theory in literary studies, this essay makes the case for the utility of literature in understanding the experience of migration. Rather than assuming that this means narrative fiction or nonfiction, it explores arguments against narrative.
KIRSTEN SILVA GRUESZ
wiley   +1 more source

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