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Moon, Nazmoon Falgunee
In [[4]], the authors present the DisCoCirc (Distributed Compositional Circuits) formalism for the English language, a grammar-based framework derived from production rules that incorporates circuit-like representations in order to give a precise categorical theoretical structure to the language. In this paper, we…
Swarnadeep Saha, Yixin Nie, Mohit Bansal
Reasoning about conjuncts in conjunctive sentences is important for a deeper understanding of conjunctions in English and also how their usages and semantics differ from conjunctive and disjunctive boolean logic. Existing NLI stress tests do not consider non-boolean usages of conjunctions and use templates for testing…
Marzieh Safari, Fatemeh Mahdavirad
The present study was aimed at a diachronic investigation of conjunction as a grammatical cohesive device in ELT research articles. A total number of 100 research articles concentrating on teaching writing skills in the EFL context, and were released in two extremes of 1980-82 and 2020-22 were selected. The caution was…
James Deraeve, Eliana Vassena, William H. Alexander
While representing and maintaining rules in order to govern behavior is a critical function of the brain, it remains an open question as to how collections of rules - task sets - are represented in cortex. One possibility is that task sets are represented as the co-activation of representations of the simple rules from…
Arwa Saleh Alawerdy, Fahd Shehail Alalwi
Cohesion has long been regarded as one of the main components of successful writing. The basic assumption of this concept is that the interpretation of one element in a text is based on the interpretation of another in the same text. It has been noticed that Saudi EFL students seem to lack some basics in writing a…
Jessica Ficler, Yoav Goldberg
While dependency parsers reach very high overall accuracy, some dependency relations are much harder than others. In particular, dependency parsers perform poorly in coordination construction (i.e., correctly attaching the conj relation). We extend a state-of-the-art dependency parser with conjunction-specific…
Takuya Ito, Guangyu Robert Yang, Patryk Laurent, Douglas H. Schultz + 1 more
The human ability to adaptively implement a wide variety of tasks is thought to emerge from the dynamic transformation of cognitive information. We hypothesized that these transformations are implemented via conjunctive activations in conjunction hubs – brain regions that selectively integrate sensory, cognitive, and…
Jessica Ficler, Yoav Goldberg
We propose a neural-network based model for coordination boundary prediction. The network is designed to incorporate two signals: the similarity between conjuncts and the observation that replacing the whole coordination phrase with a conjunct tends to produce a coherent sentences. The modeling makes use of several…
Yong Lu
We propose the use of the equate-to-differentiate model (Li, S. (2004), Equate-to-differentiate approach, Central European Journal of Operations Research, 12) to explain the occurrence of both the conjunction and disjunction fallacies. To test this model, we asked participants to judge the likelihood of two…
Atsushi Kikumoto, Ulrich Mayr
People can use abstract rules to flexibly configure and select actions for specific situations. Yet how exactly rules shape actions towards specific sensory and/or motor requirements remains unclear. One possibility is that rules become integrated with sensory/response features in a non-linear, conjunctive manner…
Rosemary A. Cowell, John T. Serences
Identifying an object and distinguishing it from similar items depends upon the ability to perceive its component parts as conjoined into a cohesive whole, but the brain mechanisms underlying this ability remain elusive. The ventral visual processing pathway in primates is organized hierarchically: Neuronal responses…
Yong Lu
In terms of prediction by Epstein’s integrative theory of personality, cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST), those people with experiential-intuitive cognitive style are more inclined to induce errors than the other people with analytical-rational cognitive style in the conjunction fallacy (two events that can…
Jessica Ficler, Yoav Goldberg
Coordination is an important and common syntactic construction which is not handled well by state of the art parsers. Coordinations in the Penn Treebank are missing internal structure in many cases, do not include explicit marking of the conjuncts and contain various errors and inconsistencies. In this work, we…
Atsushi Kikumoto, Ulrich Mayr, David Badre
For flexible goal-directed behavior, prioritizing and selecting a specific action among multiple candidates is often important. Working memory has long been assumed to play a role in prioritization and planning, while bridging cross-temporal contingencies during action selection. However, studies of working memory have…
Magda L. Dumitru, Gitte H. Joergensen, Ulrich von Hecker
Reasoning, solving mathematical equations, or planning written and spoken sentences all must factor in stimuli perceptual properties. Indeed, thinking processes are inspired by and subsequently fitted to concrete objects and situations. It is therefore reasonable to expect that the mental representations evoked when…
Royi Rassin, Yoav Goldberg, Reut Tsarfaty
Verbal omissions are complex syntactic phenomena in VP coordination structures. They occur when verbs and (some of) their arguments are omitted from subsequent clauses after being explicitly stated in an initial clause. Recovering these omitted elements is necessary for accurate interpretation of the sentence, and…
Dylan Amiri
A required aspect for the classification of a compound as aromatic is it must have a conjugated pi system, which is constituted by a region of overlapping p-orbitals or, in other words, a continuous system of sp2-hybridized atoms. This is usually determined by drawing a valid resonance structure (one with no more than…