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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Dictionary definitions"”.
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The Everyday: Informing the realm of routine practice through design
… banal, and commonplace. Yet beyond these dictionary definitions lies a much deeper meaning and appreciation when understood as something that is experienced. When it comes to informing and interpreting the everyday through design, early contemporary theorists Michael De Certeau, Henri …
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Image sense disambiguation : a multimodal approach
… the words surrounding images on web pages, and dictionary entries for nouns that refer to objects. Keywords that index images on the web have been used as weak object labels, but these tend to produce noisy datasets with many unrelated images. We use unlabeled text, dictionary definitions, and …
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A study of the professionalization and professionalism of nursing, 1960-1980
… texts, a nurse practice act, classified ads, dictionary definitions, faculty credentials, appointment, promotion and tenure criteria, entrance/certification requirements, curricular development and twenty-five semi-structured interviews with baccalaureate and higher degree faculty serve as …
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A Composite Syntactic-Semantic Interpretable Text Entailment Approach Exploring Commonsense Knowledge Graphs
… of a knowledge graph built from natural language dictionary definitions. Also, if a semantic matching is involved, the answer is made interpretable through the generation of natural language justifications that explain the semantic relationship between the pieces of text. The result is the XTE - …
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The semantics of Russian indefinite pronouns : scope, domain widening, specificity, and proportionality and their interaction
… in some characterizing/generic sentences, e.g. dictionary definitions). I propose that their syntactic distribution is due to their domain-widening semantics. The indefinites with the suffix -libo are very similar to -nibud' pronouns in their semantics and functions. The only difference lies in …
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A classification of the semantic field good and evil in the vocabulary of English
… connected categories, and some problems of dictionary definitions, among other things. Chapter 5 conducts a number of studies based on historical and etymological information drawn from the classification. The relative numbers of accessions and losses in different centuries in the categories …
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An interactive approach to vocabulary intervention for speech-language pathologists in the classroom: multiple language levels and modalities
… a traditional instructional model focused on dictionary definitions and independent composition of sentences using the target words. This treatment is referred to as DICT, due to its use of an online dictionary. Vocabulary gains were measured by the accuracy of written definitions, word …
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Μονόγλωσσα ελληνικά παιδαγωγικά λεξικά : ζητήματα σχεδιασμού και διδακτικής αξιοποίησης
Η διατριβή επικεντρώνεται στη συζήτηση ζητημάτων σχεδιασμού και διδακτικής αξιοποίησης που αφορούν τους λεξικογραφικούς ορισμούς στα μονόγλωσσα ελληνικά παιδαγωγικά λεξικά. Κύριος σκοπός της είναι η διερεύνηση της αποτελεσματικότητας διαφορετικών λεξικογραφικών προσεγγίσεων στη διατύπωση των …
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The wanderer: peregrinations in eldritch regions
… not just an amalgam of terror and revulsion, as dictionary definitions would have it, but must also include a component of the uncanny. While it is not easy to produce the first two emotional responses, it is at least obvious what means should be employed. The uncanny, however, is more elusive, …