A comprehensive theory-based approach to the treatment of text meaning in natural
language processing applications. In Ontological Semantics, Sergei Nirenburg and Victor …

Illness experience is articulated through metaphors that are grounded in—and constrained
by—both bodily experience and social interaction. The bodily grounding of metaphor is …

This volume describes the theoretical and empirical results of a seven year collaborative
effort of cognitive scientists to develop a computational model for narrative understanding …

In this essay, I argue that a theory of meaning adequate to account for the effectiveness of
symbolic healing and psychotherapy requires some variant of the three concepts of myth …

A few aspects of life are still widely believed to be true mysteries—in principle inaccessible
by the physical sciences. One of them is phenomenal consciousness. The qualitative …

Modal logics offer natural, declarative representations for describing both the modular
structure of logical specifications and the attitudes and behaviors of agents. The results of …

Modeling of individual beliefs is essential to the computer understanding of natural
languages. Phenomena at all levels--syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic--cannot be fully …

We present an algorithm for simultaneously constructing both the syntax and semantics of a
sentence using a Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (LTAG). This approach captures …

It is difficult to clearly define the symbolic and subsymbolic paradigms; each is usually
described by its tendencies rather than any one definitive property. Symbolic processing is …

The modern study of cognition finds itself with two widely endorsed but seemingly
incongruous theoretical paradigms. The first of these, inspired by formal logic and the digital …