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- Amanaki, Erini, et al.
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Fine-grained Entailment: Resources for Greek NLI and Precise Entailment
- 2022
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the Workshop on Dataset Creation for Lower-Resourced Languages within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. - Marseille, France : European Language Resources Association (ELRA). - 9782493814067
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we present a number of fine-grained resources for Natural Language Inference (NLI). In particular, we present a number of resources and validation methods for Greek NLI and a resource for precise NLI. First, we extend the Greek version of the FraCaS test suite to include examples where the inference is directly linked to the syntactic/morphological properties of Greek. The new resource contains an additional 428 examples, making it in total a dataset of 774 examples. Expert annotators have been used in order to create the additional resource, while extensive validation of the original Greek version of the FraCaS by non-expert and expert subjects is performed. Next, we continue the work initiated by (CITATION), according to which a subset of the RTE problems have been labeled for missing hypotheses and we present a dataset an order of magnitude larger, annotating the whole SuperGlUE/RTE dataset with missing hypotheses. Lastly, we provide a de-dropped version of the Greek XNLI dataset, where the pronouns that are missing due to the pro-drop nature of the language are inserted. We then run some models to see the effect of that insertion and report the results.
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- Barwise, Jon, et al.
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Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language
- 2002
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Ingår i: Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings, ed. by Paul Portner and Barbara Partee, Blackwell Publishers. ; , s. 75-126
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- Barwise, Jon, et al.
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Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language
- 2023
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Ingår i: Semantics: A Reader. - 9780197722374 ; , s. 482-525
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The work on generalized quantifiers referred to above has led to new insights into the nature of quantifiers, insights which permit logical syntax to correspond more closely to natural language syntax. These insights, we argue, may also make a significant contribution to linguistic theory. Section 1 discusses the nature of generalized quantifiers and their relationship to the syntax of English in general terms. Section 2 develops a logic containing generalized quantifiers. Section 3 shows how this logic may be formally related to a fragment of a syntax for English. Section 4 is the main section of the paper. In it we discuss some of the general implications of the notion of generalized quantifier for a theory of natural language of the kind that is interesting to linguists.
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- Breitholtz, Ellen, et al.
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All the more reasons: Mismatches in topoi in dialogue
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Pragmatics. - 0378-2166. ; 217, s. 172-184
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we show how topoi warrant inferences for interpreting and producing dialogue contributions, particularly in the case of enthymemes where the conclusion does not logically follow from the premises. We situate our theory of topoi in the context of pragmatic theory by relating it to other theories of inference and coherence. Through detailed analysis of a single dialogue, we show how dialogue participants can incrementally entertain and resolve mismatching interpretations of an enthymematic utterance. We discuss how the notions of topoi and enthymemes can add to a generalisable model of coherence in dialogue.
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- Breitholtz, Ellen, et al.
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Dogwhistles as Inferences in Interaction
- 2021
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Ingår i: ReInAct 2021. Proceedings of the Conference on Reasoning and Interaction, Gothenburg and online 4–6 October 2021 / Christine Howes, Simon Dobnik, Ellen Breitholtz and Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (eds.). - Stroudsburg, PA, USA : Association of Computational Linguistics. - 9781955917070
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- Breitholtz, Ellen, et al.
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Enthymemes as Rhetorical Resources
- 2011
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. ; , s. 149-157
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we propose that Aristotelian enthymemes play a role in the resources available to dialogue participants. We take as our point of departure the idea that every individual has a set of linguistic resources that are formed and reformed through interaction with other individuals and context. We regard enthymemes as dependent record types, functions which map contexts modelled as records, corresponding to the premises of the enthymeme, to a record type which models a proposition corresponding to the conclusion of the enthymeme. The advantage of using record types is that they give us semantic objects corresponding to enthymemes (as opposed to textual objects such as inference rules) and a straightforward way of generalizing, restricting and combining enthymemes thereby giving a theory of how agents can expand and reform their rhetorical resources on the basis of experience.
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- Breitholtz, Ellen, et al.
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Incrementality all the way up
- 2017
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the Computing Natural Inference Workshop at the International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS).
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Dialogue is known to be incremental, with people able to make interpretations based on incomplete or partial information, and this underspecification is rife at all levels including sound, structure and meaning. We argue that underspecification and incrementality is also inherent in how people reason in dialogue, using enthymemes. We discuss how incremental reasoning can be elucidated in dialogue at points of mismatch, and provide the outline of a formal analysis using Type Theory with Records for one such example. This approach is compatible with existing dialogue models, and we believe that adding incremental reasoning abilities to conversational agents will allow them to be both more flexible and human-like in dialogue.
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- Breitholtz, Ellen, et al.
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Reasoning in Multiparty Dialogue Involving Patients with Schizophrenia
- 2021
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Ingår i: (In)coherence of Discourse : formal and Conceptual Issues of Language / Maxime Amblard, Michel Musiol, Manuel Rebuschi (eds.). - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 2364-4109 .- 2364-4117. - 9783030714338 ; , s. 43-63
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Interacting with others frequently involves making common-sense inferences linking context, background knowledge, and beliefs to utterances in the dialogue. As language users we are generally good at this kind of dialogical reasoning, and might not even be aware we are involved in it while we engage in a conversation. However, sometimes it is not obvious how a particular contribution should be interpreted in terms of the underpinning assumptions warranting an inference. In dialogue involving participants who demonstrate atypical linguistic behavior, such as patients with schizophrenia, the effects may be even more marked. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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