A natural history of negation

By Alexis Kalokerinos. 1991

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Recursive Deep Models for Semantic Compositionality Over a Sentiment Treebank (2013, background): “For instance, ‘The movie was terrible’ is negative but the ‘The movie was not terrible’ says only that it was less bad than a terrible one, not that it was good (Horn, 1989; Israel, 2001).”
Visualizing and Understanding Neural Models in NLP (2015, background): “This asymmetry has been widely discussed in linguistics, for example as arising from markedness, since ‘good’ is the unmarked direction of the scale (0; Horn, 1989; Fraenkel and Schul, 2008).”
Ordinal Common-sense Inference (2016, background): “…modality in nat-ural language is a continuous category, but speakers are able to map areas of this axis into discrete values (Lyons, 1977; Horn, 1989; de Haan, 1997) – Saur ´ ı and Pustejovsky (2009) According to Horn (1989), there are two scales of epistemic modality which differ in…”
Many-Valued Logics (2007, unknown): “[88,127].”
CONDAQA: A Contrastive Reading Comprehension Dataset for Reasoning about Negation (2022, background): “Negation Cues Negation is expressed in many complex and varied ways in language (Horn, 1989).”
The Question–Answer Requirement for scope assignment (2008, background): “This indeterminacy, however, disappears if scalar implicatures are taken into consideration (see Grice 1975; Horn 1989).”
Indeterminate Pronouns: The View from Japanese (2017, unknown): “A second and more reliable indication that the distribution requirement is a conversational implicature is the fact that it disappears in downward entailing contexts, (Gazdar 1979, Horn 1989, Chierchia 2001).”
A Simple Algorithm for Identifying Negated Findings and Diseases in Discharge Summaries (2001, background): “He described four species of opposition [10] including correlation (e.”
Logic in Grammar: Polarity, Free Choice, and Intervention (2013, background): “These are known as “Horn scales,” after Horn’s (1989) seminal discussion.”
Positive Polarity – Negative Polarity (2004, background): “17 Cf. Horn 1989.”
Configurations, construals and change: expressions of DEGREE1 (2008, unknown): “…expressing the absolute opposite as in Bill is not alive = Bill is dead , or it may be an attenuator as in The water is not hot said about water that may be warm, lukewarm or cool (Bolinger 1972; Horn 1989; Israel 2001; Giora, Balaban, Fein & Alkabets 2005; Giora 2006; Paradis & Willners 2006a).”
'And' or 'or': General use coordination in ASL (2013, background): “Thanks also to audiences at the meetings of the 2012 LSA and the 2011 Amsterdam Colloquium, where an earlier stage of this work appeared.”
Metarepresentation in linguistic communication (2000, background): “Horn (1989: 3.2; 6) takes an even more restrictive view.”