Talking about trees, scope and concepts

Cimiano P, Reyle U. Talking about trees, scope and concepts. In: Bunt H, Geertzen J, Thijse E, eds. Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS). 2005

Gasmelbari Suhaib. — Talking about Trees

Tourné en 2015, Talking about Trees, du réalisateur soudanais Suhaib Gasmelbari, suit les péripéties des membres septuagénaires du Sudanese Film Group (SFG), Ibrahim Shaddad, Manar al Hilo, Suleiman Mohamed Ibrahim et Altayeb Mahdi, alors qu’ils tentent d’organiser la projection d’un film dans un cinéma désaffecté d’Omdurman. Faisant l’économie des dispositifs classiques du cinéma documentaire — la voix off ou les entretiens en face à face —, le réalisateur laisse les enjeux de ce film à la f..

Talking about trees and truth-conditions

We present Logical Description Grammar (LDG), a model of grammar and the syntax-semantics interface based on descriptions in elementary logic. A description may simultaneously describe the syntactic structure and the semantics of a natural language expression, i.e., the describing logic talks about the trees and about the truth-conditions of the language described. Logical Description Grammars offer a natural way of dealing with underspecification in natural language syntax and semantics. If a logical description (up to isomorphism) has exactly one tree plus truth-conditions as a model, it completely specifies that grammatical object. More common is the situation, corresponding to underspecification, in which there is more than one model. A situation in which there are no models corresponds to an ungrammatical input.

Linear invariants for the equal-input evolutionary model

Mathematical models for describing biological systems are becoming more and more important nowadays. In this thesis we will study Markov processes on phylogenetic trees and deeply study the equal-input model, which is the first non-trivial model that presents the interesting properties of simple models. We will study widely this model, talking about its invariants, computing the linear ones for the case of n = 5 and studying the linear equations that satisfy all the distributions arising from it. We will also talk about some notions of phylogenetic trees and the distinction between topology and model invariants, understanding the generalization of these processes to phylogenetic mixtures

Talking about trees: the territorial classification of native forests in the Argentinian Chaco

Deforestation represents an important contributor to climate change. For this reason, identifying conditions that enable the adoption of policies halting or reversing this process is crucial to avoid catastrophic climate change. The Argentinian Gran Chaco is a hotspot of deforestation, mainly due to the expansion of capital-intensive agriculture. In Argentina, the introduction of the national forest law (NFL) represents an important step to protect the remaining forests. However, in the Chaco ecoregion, the implementation of the NFL by the different provinces is extremely heterogeneous. Previous research has provided rich descriptions of the dynamics behind the implementation of the NFL. Yet this research, mainly based on qualitative approaches, does not allow for a systematic analysis of the conditions leading to more or less stringent implementations of the NFL. To address this gap, we first combine the socio-ecological systems framework with historical materialism to generate a plausible hypothesis for the heterogeneous implementation of the NFL across the 12 different provinces of the Argentinian Chaco. Specifically, we hypothesise that it is the differences in contextual factors (i.e. differences in forest cover), material/economic conditions (i.e. presence and extent of capital-intensive agriculture) and the strength of pro- and anti-deforestation coalitions, which lead to a heterogeneous territorial classification of native forests across the various provinces. Subsequently, we test the hypothesis by developing thorough case studies via qualitative comparative analysis. This approach allows us to study in a more systematic way the reasons for the observed institutional heterogeneity. The results show that the proportion of native forests characterised as of low conservation value reflects both the environmental context (i.e. the extent of native forests) as well as the material/economic conditions (i.e. the extent of capital-intensive agriculture) and the presence of strong pro-deforestation cultures, expressed via pro-deforestation coalitions

Talking about Trees: Stances towards Political Poetry in Adrienne Rich’s “What Kind of Times are These”

This paper aims to present the potential for political activism within poetry by analysing the poem “What Kind of Times are These” by Adrienne Rich. The literary analysis demonstrates an affinity with the second-wave feminist stance of the personal as being inherently political, implying a necessity for political poetry that addresses injustices beyond the political macro level of the public realm. The author thus makes the case for poetry as a means for socio-political interaction, allowing those who are overheard in the public sphere to expose systemic injustices that seep into the private realm

Talking about Trees: Stances towards Political Poetry in Adrienne Rich’s “What Kind of Times are These”

This paper aims to present the potential for political activism within poetry by analysing the poem “What Kind of Times are These” by Adrienne Rich. The literary analysis demonstrates an affinity with the second-wave feminist stance of the personal as being inherently political, implying a necessity for political poetry that addresses injustices beyond the political macro level of the public realm. The author thus makes the case for poetry as a means for socio-political interaction, allowing those who are overheard in the public sphere to expose systemic injustices that seep into the private realm