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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Event structures"”.
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Syntactic distribution of English denominal verbs
… the parent noun plays to choose what type of event structure it should be slotted into. This predicts that the nominal role interpretation should constrain what type of argument structures the corresponding denominal verb can occur in. Specifically, locative denominal verbs should show …
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A theory of agreements and protection
… and objectives. Obligations are specified using event structures. In this model we formalise two fundamental notions of contracts, namely agreement and protection. These notions arise naturally by interpreting contracts as multi-player concurrent games. A participant agrees on a contract if she …
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New architectures of governance : transnational private actors, enrolment strategies and the security governance of sports mega events
… become one of the most sought after sports mega events by many countries in today’s society, as well as one of the most controversial. As I put the finishing touches on this thesis, the FIFA World Cup is taking place in Brazil. As with previous World Cups, the planning stage of the 2014 World Cup …
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Os sufixos -izar e -ecer: um estudo semântico e sintático
… as verb flavors (Marantz, 1997; Dowty, 1989), event structures (Harley and Noyer, 1999), and event templates (Borer, 2005; Duarte and Gonçalves, 2009), are the distinguishing factors between the two verbalizers, this thesis opts for a confluence of theories regarding the semantic approach to …
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Grounding language in events
… the meaning of words in representations of events. Incorporating these grounded language models with text-based techniques significantly improves the performance of three multimodal applications: natural language understanding in videogames, sports video search and automatic speech …
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Joint Biomedical Event Extraction and Entity Linking via Iterative Collaborative Training
Biomedical entity linking and event extraction are two crucial tasks to support text understanding and retrieval in the biomedical domain. These two tasks intrinsically benefit each other: entity linking disambiguates the biomedical concepts by referring to external knowledge bases and the domain …
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Temporal Reasoning in Clinical Narratives: From Information Extraction to Early Disease Detection
… patient modeling that integrates structured event representations, fine-grained temporal reasoning, and scalable predictive architectures. Initial experiments show that concept-based models paired with visit-level temporal modeling outperform traditional baselines that ignore temporal …
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From game comonads to dynamical systems: property-preserving maps as a logical unifying principle
… frequently manifests through relations between structures, which establish their similarity in various ways and for different purposes. In this work, we focus on three distinct forms of relations between structures: coKleisli morphisms, games, and truth-preserving maps. By coordinating these …
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Probabilistic concurrent game semantics
… to the probabilistic Nakajima trees of Leventis, thus obtaining a characterisation of observational equivalence for programs in terms of strategies. For the latter, we show a definability result in the spirit of the game semantics tradition. This solves an open problem, as it is …
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Transformational Festivals and the Enchantment Economy: Performance and Race in Neoliberal Times
… Festivals,” a genre of participatory, for-profit event influenced by New Age ideology and aesthetics. I use ethnographic examination of these festivals in the United States and Costa Rica as a basis for understanding the role that participatory culture and event economies play in …
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MEGA-Event Stadiums as vehicles for urban transformation : an argument for integration
… across the world engage in significant public events whether religious, traditional or competitive. Many of these celebrations, small or large, are central to their communities and cultures, bringing people together on common grounds. Events of this nature have had a long history of …