Newell (1980; 1990) proposed that cognitive theories be developed in an effort to satisfy
multiple criteria and to avoid theoretical myopia. He provided two overlap** lists of 13 …

The process of comprehending sentences involves the integration of a variety of different
information sources, constrained by the available computational resources. This paper …

I argue that definite descriptions, pronouns and proper names share one common syntax
and semantics, basically that of definite descriptions. E-type pronouns are argued to be …

Abstract Discourse Representation Theory, or DRT, is one of a number of theories of
dynamic semantics, which have come upon the scene in the course of the past twenty years …

In this paper, we show how incorporating into syntax the concept of structural
underspecification and the dynamics of its resolution enables us to characterise the …

In this pioneering book Kasia Jaszczolt lays down the foundations of an original theory of
meaning in discourse, reveals the cognitive foundations of discourse interpretation, and puts …

This book introduces fundamental techniques for computing semantic representations for
fragments of natural language and performing inference with the result. The prinary tools …

Not everything is black and white. Our daily lives are full of vagueness or fuzziness.
Language is the most obvious example-for instance, when we describe someone as tall, it is …

The goal of the Groningen Meaning Bank (GMB) is to obtain a large corpus of English texts
annotated with formal meaning representations. Since manually annotating a …

We argue in this article that many common adverbial phrases generally taken to signal a
discourse relation between syntactically connected units within discourse structure instead …