Lauri Karttunen

2 paper cards in Mova's library · 2006–2013

Lauri Karttunen wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 2006–2013, most of them on Implicature; often with Annie Zaenen, Cleo Condoravdi, Rowan Nairn.

Papers

Veridicity annotation in the lexicon? A look at factive adjectives (2013)
A short note on veridicity: whether a sentence commits the author to the truth of an embedded event. Factive adjectives such as "lucky" or "brave" are listed as factive in the lexicon, but the authors show that their factivity depends on more than the adjective and its frame. Roughly 800 adjectives take the…
Computing relative polarity for textual inference (2006)
The paper handles what a sentence commits its author to when complement clauses sit inside other clauses. Implicative verbs (manage to, forget to, refuse to, force to, attempt to) entail or deny their complement depending on the polarity of the environment, so "forget to" commits the author to the opposite of "forget…