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Revisiting Negation in Neural Machine Translation

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021
In this paper, we evaluate the translation of negation both automatically and manually, in English–German (EN–DE) and English– Chinese (EN–ZH).
Gongbo Tang, Philipp Rönchen, Rico Sennrich, Joakim Nivre   +3 more
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I believe that he didn’t do it and I don’t believe that he did it. The influence of context on the semantic-communicative relations between sentence negation and performative negation

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2018
The subject matter of the paper is an analysis of the semantic relations between sentence negation, performative negation, and declarations in reference to utterances which speech acts theory gives the label of representatives.
Maciuszek Józef
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Linguocognitive foundations of teaching English negation

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2020
Negation is a fundamental category in English that permeates the entire structure of the language. Learning negation is an important aspect of comprehensive language acquisition.
S. V. Motov
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Guarded Negation

Journal of the ACM, 2011
We consider restrictions of first-order logic and of fixpoint logic in which all occurrences of negation are required to be guarded by an atomic predicate. In terms of expressive power, the logics in question, called GNFO and GNFP, extend the guarded fragment of first-order logic and the guarded least fixpoint logic, respectively.
Barany, Vince, Cate, Balder Ten, Segoufin, Luc   +2 more
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Evoking the Possibility of Presence:Textual and Ideological Effects of Linguistic Negation in Written Discourse [PDF]

This thesis explores the textual and ideological effects of linguistic negation in written texts. It argues that when language users process negation, understanding its use in context is as much about the possibility of presence as it is about the ...
Nahajec, Lisa Margaret
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Negation in context [PDF]

, 2012
The present essay includes six thematically connected papers on negation in the areas of the philosophy of logic, philosophical logic and metaphysics. Each of the chapters besides the first, which puts each the chapters to follow into context, highlights
De, Michael
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Strong negation in the theory of computable functionals TCF [PDF]

Logical Methods in Computer Science
We incorporate strong negation in the theory of computable functionals TCF, a common extension of Plotkin's PCF and G\"{o}del's system $\mathbf{T}$, by defining simultaneously strong negation $A^{\mathbf{N}}$ of a formula $A$ and strong negation $P^{
Nils Köpp, Iosif Petrakis
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Unnaturalness of Negation – an Old Wives’ Tale Retold

ELOPE, 2006
Negation has a very long history of study. In the realm of logic, negation is seen as a simple operation that turns an affirmative to a negative. This assumption strongly affected the linguistic study of negation, and led to some misconceptions.
Gašper Ilc
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The Negation Jangan from a Lexical Functional Perspective [PDF]

, 2016
This paper is an investigation into the properties of the negation jangan in the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. The analysis shows that the negation jangan can negate verbs functioning as predicate in a sentence.
Truly Almendo Pasaribu, Pasaribu, Truly Almendo   +1 more
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Expletive Negation [PDF]

, 2020
This chapter provides the state-of-the-art around expletive negation (EN), by discussing: (i) the relationship between EN and negative concord; (ii) EN as a real negation; (iii) EN as a special formative linked to an additional evaluative/expressive ...
Delfitto, Denis
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