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Adam Kilgarriff | 2 Jan 2010 06:46

What is the meaning of life?

Answer: life prime


Does anyone have a source for my favourite formal linguistics joke?  (I heard it attributed to Montague, of Montague grammar, but I have no idea if that's right)

happy new year

adam

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Andras Kornai | 2 Jan 2010 12:26

Re: What is the meaning of life?

The story goes that Barbara Partee was asked by one of her students
what the meaning of life was and this was her response... 

Andras Kornai

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>    Answer: life prime
> 
>    Does anyone have a source for my favourite formal linguistics joke?
>    (I heard it attributed to Montague, of Montague grammar, but I have no
>    idea if that's right)
> 
>    happy new year
> 
>    adam
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Trond Trosterud | 2 Jan 2010 23:48
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Re: What is the meaning of life?


Adam Kilgarriff kirjoitti 2. jan. 2010 kello 06.46:

> Answer: life prime
> Does anyone have a source for my favourite formal linguistics joke?  (I heard it attributed to Montague, of
Montague grammar, but I have no idea if that's right)

The really fun (or sad, or whatever) aspect of this joke is of course that it gives a precise account of one of
the mainstream semantic practices (the other one gives the meaning as "1", if there is a world in which
there is life, and "0" otherwise). 

>From the viewpoint of lexicography, or the one of natural semantics, this of course what makes the joke so
funny (cf. also mainstream textbooks in "Lexical semantics", dealing with zeros, ones, primes, and
their interrelations (aka homo- poly- etc nomy)).

Trond.
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WHITELOCK, Pete | 3 Jan 2010 13:48
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Re: What is the meaning of life?

Hi Adam, and a happy new year 2u2.
 
Isn't it ^life' ( a function from possible worlds to predicates that classify life in those worlds)?
 
I thought it was Emmon Bach. I know for sure it was referenced in Barwise and Perry, but my copy's gone walkies so I can't give you the exact quote. I do remember they said 'which would be funny if it wasn't such a reductio ad absurdum of man's search for ...' (and woman's, presumably, though they don't mention her).
 
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Answer: life prime

Does anyone have a source for my favourite formal linguistics joke?  (I heard it attributed to Montague, of Montague grammar, but I have no idea if that's right)

happy new year

adam

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Alberto Simões | 3 Jan 2010 15:06
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Re: What is the meaning of life?

Meaning of life? 42?

Sorry, could not resist :)

Happy New Year.

On 03/01/2010 12:48, WHITELOCK, Pete wrote:
> Hi Adam, and a happy new year 2u2.
>  
> Isn't it ^life' ( a function from possible worlds to predicates that
> classify life in those worlds)?
>  
> I thought it was Emmon Bach. I know for sure it was referenced in
> Barwise and Perry, but my copy's gone walkies so I can't give you the
> exact quote. I do remember they said 'which would be funny if it wasn't
> such a reductio ad absurdum of man's search for ...' (and woman's,
> presumably, though they don't mention her).
>  
> Pete
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> Pete Whitelock
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> Answer: life prime
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> Does anyone have a source for my favourite formal linguistics joke?  (I
> heard it attributed to Montague, of Montague grammar, but I have no idea
> if that's right)
> 
> happy new year
> 
> adam
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Trevor Jenkins | 3 Jan 2010 15:53

Re: What is the meaning of life?

On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Alberto Simões <albie <at> alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt> wrote:

> Meaning of life? 42?
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> Sorry, could not resist :)

But then there was Schrodinger. ;-)

> Happy New Year.

There's an echo in here "Happy New Year".

Regards, Trevor

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El-Haj, Mahmoud | 3 Jan 2010 18:41
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Evaluating Arabic Summaries Using ROUGE

Dear All,

 

Wishing you a very Happy New Year.

 

Thanks to Marina Litvak, I was able to adapt ROUGE to Arabic by changing regular expression to be [A-Z a-z 0-9أ-ي]  where أ-ي represent first and last letters in Arabic alphabet right to left.

 

Best regards,
Mahmoud EL-Haj

 

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering.

University of Essex.

Colchester CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom.

URL: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/

 

>From: El-Haj, Mahmoud melhaj at essex.ac.uk
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>Hi,

>Does anyone knows if it's possible to evaluate Arabic summaries by using ROUGE?

>Best regards, Mahmoud

 

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Linas Vepstas | 3 Jan 2010 19:56
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Re: announcing pukwac and wackypedia

Hi,

2009/12/19 Marco Baroni <marco.baroni <at> unitn.it>:
> We are happy to announce that you can download two new resources from the
> site of WaCky (Web as Corpus kool ynitiative):
>
> http://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it/
>
> 1) pukWaC: the ukWaC corpus, a 2 billion Web-derived corpus of English, now
> enriched with a full dependency parse (POS-tagging and lemmatization done
> with the TreeTagger, parsing done with the MaltParser);
>
> 2) WaCkypedia: a full 2009 English Wikipedia dump (about 800 million
> tokens), POS-tagged, lemmatized and dependency parsed with the same tools
> used for pukWaC.

If I may, I'd like to announce a smaller but similar project to provide
a tagged, dependency-parsed copy of Wikipedia.  Since it is tagged
and parsed with a different set of technology, perhaps it may be useful
for comparative purposes.

The data is available here:
http://gnucash.org/linas/nlp/

The texts were dependency parsed with a combination of RelEx
http://opencog.org/wiki/RelEx  and Link Grammar
http://www.abisource.com/projects/link-grammar/,
and are marked with both dependencies (subject, object, prepositional
relations, etc.), with features (part-of-speech tags, verb-tense
and noun-number tags, etc., with Link Grammar linkage relations,
and with phrasal constituency structure.  The data is in the RelEx
compact output http://opencog.org/wiki/RelEx_compact_output
format.  This format captures all of the parser output in an
easy-to-handle format, meant to be easy-to-treat with basic perl scripts.
An example script is provided.

Although the project is currently a personal project, I am interested
in collaboration to expand its scope and quality.

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Introduction to the Special Issue on Arabic Natural Language Processing
K. Shaalan, A. Farghaly
     
Arabic Natural Language Processing: Challenges and Solutions
Ali Farghaly, Khaled Shaalan

Discriminative Phrase-Based Models for Arabic Machine Translation
Cristina España-Bonet, Jesús Giménez, Lluís Màrquez
     
Morphology-Based Segmentation Combination for Arabic Mention Detection
Yassine Benajiba, Imed Zitouni
     
Cross-Language Information Propagation for Arabic Mention Detection
Imed Zitouni, Radu Florian
 
Automatic Speech-to-Text Transcription in Arabic
Lori Lamel, Abdelkhalek Messaoudi, Jean-Luc Gauvain
 
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