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LoNLI: An Extensible Framework for Testing Diverse Logical Reasoning Capabilities for NLI
Natural Language Inference (NLI) is considered a representative task to test natural language understanding (NLU). In this work, we propose an...
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Default meanings: language’s logical connectives between comprehension and reasoning
Language employs various coordinators to connect propositions, a subset of which are “logical” in nature and thus analogous to the truth operators of...
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The limitations of irony detection in Dutch social media
In this paper, we explore the feasibility of irony detection in Dutch social media. To this end, we investigate both transformer models with...
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Modeling question-answer relations: the development of the integrative inferential reasoning comic assessment
We constructed a new taxonomy for inferential thinking, a construct called Integrative Inferential Reasoning (IIR). IIR extends Pearson and Johnson's...
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Super Linguistics: an introduction
We argue that formal linguistic theory, properly extended, can provide a unifying framework for diverse phenomena beyond traditional linguistic...
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What knowledge do early childhood teachers use during literacy instruction? Using stimulated recall to investigate an unexplored phenomenon
This study utilized a novel phenomenological approach with a stimulated recall procedure to understand the pedagogical reasoning of eight early child...
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Effects of collaborative small-group discussions on early adolescents’ social reasoning
This study examined the influence of small-group discussions on early adolescents’ social reasoning development. A total of 147 fifth-grade students...
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Metaphors in the Muspilli
This study delves into the metaphorical nature of the OHG Muspilli . Employing cognitive linguistics, the research aims to explore the deeper...
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Commonsense based text mining on urban policy
Local laws on urban policy, i.e., ordinances directly affect our daily life in various ways (health, business etc.), yet in practice, for many...
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“You see, but you do not observe”: Sensory Manipulation and Sense-Making in the Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories
The Sherlock Holmes stories provide excellent examples of how readers of detective stories may be presented with misleading information for the...
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Extending the typology of quantifier particles
The Sakha particle da(ɣanï) has a restricted, semantically varied distribution. It appears in three main roles: negative polarity item (NPIs), a...
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COVER: a linguistic resource combining common sense and lexicographic information
Lexical resources are fundamental to tackle many tasks that are central to present and prospective research in Text Mining, Information Retrieval,...
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Constructing Arabic Reading Comprehension Datasets: Arabic WikiReading and KaifLematha
Neural machine reading comprehension models have gained immense popularity over the last decade given the availability of large-scale English...
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One World - Seven Thousand Languages (Best Paper Award, Third Place)
We present a large scale multilingual lexical resource, the Universal Knowledge Core (UKC), which is organized like a Wordnet with, however, a major...
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Probabilistic semantics for epistemic modals: Normality assumptions, conditional epistemic spaces and the strength of must and might
The epistemic modal auxiliaries must and might are vehicles for expressing the force with which a proposition follows from some body of evidence or...
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Linguistic Feeling and Grammaticalization: From Concepts to Case Studies
This chapter shows that while the notion of reanalysis is widely used in linguistics today, it is an extension of the lesser-known notions of...
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The Logic and Pragmatics of Conditionals Under Uncertainty: A Mental Probability Logic Perspective
A central hypothesis in the new paradigm psychology of reasoning is that beliefs in everyday sentences are rationally reconstructable by probability...
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Teaching argument writing in math class: challenges and solutions to improve the performance of 4th and 5th graders with disabilities
Incorporating argument writing as a learning activity has been found to increase students’ mathematics performance. However, teachers report...
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Gibbardian Collapse and Trivalent Conditionals
In conditional logics the law of Import-Export states the equivalence between right-nested sentences of the form “if A, then if B, then C” and their...
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Introduction: Signifying Emotions and Their Necessary Translation
This chapter offers an introduction to the present book, Exploring the Translatability of Emotions. Cross-cultural and Transdisciplinary Encounters,...