Two theories about adjectives

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Is the Red Square Big? MALeViC: Modeling Adjectives Leveraging Visual Contexts (2019, background): “As for the non-inﬂected, so-called positive form of GAs (e.g., Saturn is a big planet), its interpretation involves applying a statistical function that makes use of a standard threshold degree (Kamp, 1975; Pinkal, 1979; Barker, 2002; Kennedy, 2007).”
The grammar of standards: Judge-dependence, purpose-relativity, and comparison classes in degree constructions (2014, background): “Here are other examples of multidimensional adjectives (Kamp, 1975; Klein, 1980):”
The Semantic Classification of Adjectives. A View from Syntax. (2014, background): “15 Beesley (1982) (also see Kamp 1975,152f and Siegel 1979,230f) claims that a comparison class is always contextually determined even for these adjectives.”
Implicit versus Explicit Comparatives (2011, background): “Linguists (e.g. Kamp, 1975; Klein, 1980; Pinkal, 1995) typically do not like the fuzzy logic approach to vagueness, because that cannot account for what Fine (1975) called ‘penumbral’ connections.”
Absolute vs. Relative Adjectives - Variance Within vs. Between Individuals (2011, background): “Most contexts of use are partial in that no single category is uniquely and unambiguously selected (cf. Kamp 1975, Klein 1980, van Rooij 2011).”