Search Results for author: Francis Jeffry Pelletier

Found 5 papers, 0 papers with code

K3, L3, LP, RM3, A3, FDE: How to Make Many-Valued Logics Work for You

no code implementations15 Nov 2017 Allen P. Hazen, Francis Jeffry Pelletier

We investigate some well-known (and a few not-so-well-known) many-valued logics that have a small number (3 or 4) of truth values.

Issues of Mass and Count: Dealing with `Dual-Life' Nouns

no code implementations SEMEVAL 2017 Tibor Kiss, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Halima Husi{\'c}, Johanna Poppek

The topics of mass and count have been studied for many decades in philosophy (e. g., Quine, 1960; Pelletier, 1975), linguistics (e. g., McCawley, 1975; Allen, 1980; Krifka, 1991) and psychology (e. g., Middleton et al, 2004; Barner et al, 2009).

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A sense-based lexicon of count and mass expressions: The Bochum English Countability Lexicon

no code implementations LREC 2016 Tibor Kiss, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Halima Husic, Roman Nino Simunic, Johanna Marie Poppek

Further included are sets of similar senses using the Leacock and Chodorow (LCH) score for semantic similarity (Leacock {\&} Chodorow 1998), information on orthographic variation, on the completeness of all WordNet senses in the database and an annotated representation of different types of proper names.

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Building a reference lexicon for countability in English

no code implementations LREC 2014 Tibor Kiss, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Tobias Stadtfeld

The present paper describes the construction of a resource to determine the lexical preference class of a large number of English noun-senses ({\$}{\textbackslash}approx{\$} 14, 000) with respect to the distinction between mass and count interpretations.

Compositional Belief Update

no code implementations15 Jan 2014 James Delgrande, Yi Jin, Francis Jeffry Pelletier

We also explore other compositional belief change operators: erasure is developed as a dual operator to update; we show that a forget operator is definable in terms of update; and we give a definition of the compositional revision operator.

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