Referenzsemantik in der Partnermodellierung

How can we explain that an assertion on something perceived can be understood in the same manner by somebody who cannot perceive that scene? This problem bases the interest in computational linguistics in how listener modeling could possibly be harmonized with reference semantics. Mental images substituting real perception appear as a way out. The architecture of the listener model has to be adapted to the creation and use of such pictorial data structures. Furthermore, the relation between the latter and a verbal (i. e., propositional) representation must be understood. The resulting architecture of a listener model with reference semantics can be employed to solve communicational problems from three general classes in a better way, as is demonstrated by an example implementation.     

Forbidden Suffering: The Pollyanna Syndrome of the Disabled and Their Families

Has suffering become an ugly word in the normalization debate? Are the disabled and their families forced into a Pollyanna ¹ 1 Pollyanna is the heroine in Eleanor Porter's book (1913), which has since been published in countless editions. Pollyanna received a pair of crutches when all she wanted was a doll. Because she didn't need to use her crutches, she was so happy that she played “being-happy” games for the rest of her life.
culture in order to be acknowledged and accepted in good company as the worthy disabled? This essay poses a controversial question: I would like to start a debate and ask whether normalization also has an unseen, ideological downside.