Jean Mark Gawron

Recent Papers and Talks

• The Lexical Semantics of Extent Verbs This version of the work descending from the "Generalized Paths" Salt paper is under submission and will be stable a while.
• Argument Structure as soft constraints (talk given at Xerox Parc March 9, 2008)
• Interpreting Words (current draft entitled: Circumstances and Perspective: The Logic of Argument Structure)
• Paths and the Language of Change (pdf, Old version, ps handout, ps handout)
• Generalized Paths (Salt XV handout, Salt XV paper, )
• Motion, Scalar Paths, and Lexical Aspect (pdf version)
• Frames and Lexical Semantics (ps version)
• Two Kinds of Determiner in DP ( LSA handout [postscript], LSA talk [postscript])
  • Handout contains a superset of the LSA talk handout
  • Talk contains read version of the LSA talk, some clarification of material in the handout
• Abduction and Mismatch in Machine Translation (pdf version, ps version)
• Universal Concessive Conditionals ( ps, pdf)

Projects

• Mapping ideas
• Machine Translation with FrameNet
• Gemini
• Spoken Language Systems

Oddz Endz

• Cynthia Shelmerdine's Icarus page (especially Muriel Rukeyser's contribution)
• John Sayles
• Jane Smiley (Not that fond of Private Lives, but Horse Heaven, A Thousand Acres, Moo, Ten Days in the Hills, Duplicate Keys and Good Faith are not only all stunning, but stunning in their variety)
• The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God. G. B. Shaw.

Corpora and Resources

• Japanese English aligned texts

Novels

Other Things to Do

• HTML book
• Dr.HTML will fix your web page
• Dictionaries: Bucknell dictionaries, EMich dictionaries