Communicating with Executable Action Representations

Schilling M, Narayanan S. Communicating with Executable Action Representations. In: Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium Series 2013, Stanford. 2013

Moving Right Along: A Computational Model of Metaphoric Reasoning about Events

This paper describes the results of an implemented computational model that cashes out the belief that metaphor interpretation is grounded in embodied primitives. The speci c task addressed is the interpretation of simple causal narratives in the domains of Politics and Economics. The stories are taken from newspaper articles in these domains. When presented with a preparsed version of these narratives as input, the system described is able to generate commonsense inferences consistent with the input

Talking the Talk is Like Walking the Walk: A Computational Model of Verbal Aspect

I describe an implemented computational model of verbal aspect that supports the proposition that the semantics of aspect is grounded in sensory-motor primitives. In this theory, aspectual expressions refer to schematized processes that recur in sensory-motor control (such as goal, periodicity, iteration, final state, duration, and parameters such as force and effort). This active model of aspect grounded in sensory-motor primitives is able to model cross-linguistic variation in aspectual expressions while avoiding some paradoxes and problems in model-theoretic and other traditional accounts. Introduction The study of aspect pertains to the study of linguistic devices that enable a speaker to direct the hearer's attention to the internal temporal character of a situation. 1 Many languages have grammatical aspectual modifiers such as English progressive construction ( X -ing) which focuses on the ongoing nature of an underlying process while allowing for inferences that th..