Eimear Maguire


2020

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‘Practical’, if that’s the word
Eimear Maguire
Proceedings of the Probability and Meaning Conference (PaM 2020)

Certain conditionals have something other than a clause as their consequent: their antecedent if-clauses are ‘adverbial clauses’ without a verb. We argue that they function in a way already seen for those with clausal consequents, despite lacking the content we might expect for the formation of a conditional. The use of the if-clause with sub-clausal consequents is feasible thanks to the fact that this function does not depend on the consequent content, and so is not impeded when the consequent does not provide a proposition, question or imperative. To support this we provide meaning rules for conditionals in terms of information state updates, letting the same construction play out in different ways depending on context and content.

2019

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Enthymemetic Conditionals: Topoi as a guide for acceptability
Eimear Maguire
Proceedings of the IWCS 2019 Workshop on Computing Semantics with Types, Frames and Related Structures

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Enthymemetic Conditionals
Eimear Maguire
Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2019)

To model conditionals in a way that reflects their acceptability, we must include some means of making judgements about whether antecedent and consequent are meaningfully related or not. Enthymemes are non-logical arguments which do not hold up by themselves, but are acceptable through their relation to a topos, an already-known general principle or pattern for reasoning. This paper uses enthymemes and topoi as a way to model the world-knowledge behind these judgements. In doing so, it provides a reformalisation (in TTR) of enthymemes and topoi as networks rather than functions, and information state update rules for conditionals.

2015

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Tapadóir
Eimear Maguire | John Judge | Teresa Lynn
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation

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Minority Language Twitter: Part-of-Speech Tagging and Analysis of Irish Tweets
Teresa Lynn | Kevin Scannell | Eimear Maguire
Proceedings of the Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text

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Tapadóir
Eimear Maguire | John Judge | Teresa Lynn
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation