In this thesis we examine the AI-hard problem of natural language understanding. We use the Quora Questions dataset as motivation - strong performance on this …
Real-world events produce both auditory and visual signals that, together, comprise our perceptual experience of that event. At issue is how the brain integrates information …
This dissertation makes the argument that general purpose reasoning mechanisms are sufficient to generate scalar implicatures of utterances of considerable complexity. (Scalar implicature is a …
The author reflects on the internationalization of Portuguese historiography, beginning with the definitions of "internationalization" and of "Portuguese Historiography." He then summarizes his own professional …
This doctoral dissertation investigates linguistic processes associated with verbal derivation, namely affixation (i.e., adding of a morpheme to a word) and reduplication (i.e., doubling of …
In this dissertation, I explore a class of constructions I term 'emphatic strategies', which convey the discourse effect of polarity emphasis. I argue that while …